Sat 22 October 2022: The Netherlands, Indonesia’s former colonial ruler, has been asked to return eight collections of historical artifacts from its museums, including the bones of “Java Man,” the first known fossils of the Homo erectus species from which humans are thought to have evolved, Reuters reported. The “looted” artifacts include statues from Java’s […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Writer-director Bilal Lashari’s The Legend of Maula Jatt, released worldwide, is Pakistan’s most expensive film ever. Days before its October 13 worldwide release, the owner of the IMGC cinema hall in Pakistan’s provincial town of Burewala was working round-the-clock to get his new theatre ready for the much-anticipated action-drama film, The […]
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Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Minister of Energy, Saudi Arabia. Fri 21 October 2022: Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, and the Director of China’s National Energy Administration, Zhang Jianhua, on Friday said they would strengthen their ties in the energy sector, the Saudi state news agency, SPA, reported. The officials spoke in a […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s election commission, in a unanimous decision, has found former Prime Minister Imran Khan guilty of “corrupt practices” and disqualified him from being a member of parliament. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party immediately rejected Friday’s ruling and called on supporters to take to the streets. Faisal Fareed Chaudhry, part […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: Following nearly 100 children’s deaths from acute kidney injury this year, the Indonesian government banned all syrup and liquid pharmaceutical prescription and over-the-counter sales on Wednesday. The ban was imposed as Southeast Asian health officials investigated an unexplained increase in the number of paediatric deaths from acute renal damage since January. […]
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Malaysia will hold a general election on Nov. 19, its election commission chief Abdul Ghani Salleh announced Thursday. More than 21 million eligible voters will go to the polls to cast their votes to elect the new government, he said in a press conference in Putrajaya. Thu 20 October 2022: The polls, a year earlier […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: In a tragic incident, the Jakarta Islamic Center mosque in Indonesia was destroyed by a fire during its renovation on Wednesday. Dramatic social media footage showed the moment the mosque’s dome collapsed. Firefighters were alerted about the blaze shortly after 3pm local time, with at least ten fire engines being dispatched […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: India’s opposition Congress party elected a former minister on Wednesday as its first president in 24 years not from the Gandhi dynasty, in an effort to reverse its electoral decline amid the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, was appointed by members over fellow politician Shashi […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is believed to be behind the abduction of a Palestinian man who was snatched from a street in the capital Kuala Lumpur and interrogated before being freed by police, a Malaysian news organisation has reported. Malaysia’s New Straits Times reported on Tuesday that the Palestinian computer programmer was bundled into one […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the August release of 11 men convicted and sentenced to life in prison for gang-raping a Muslim woman and murdering members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat religious riots, according to court documents. The approval letter from India’s home ministry, headed by Modi’s […]
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