Fri 23 September 2022: The central Chinese province of Jiangxi has declared a water supply “red alert” for the first time as a prolonged drought dried up much of the water in the country’s biggest lake. The provincial government said on Friday that water levels in Poyang Lake, usually a flood outlet for the Yangtze […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: Angelina Jolie, a top Hollywood actress and special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, urged the international community to do more as millions of people are in trouble in the flood-hit areas of Pakistan. During her visit to the National Flood Response Coordination Centre (NFRCC) late Wednesday, Jolie said […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: The Indonesian Foreign Ministry denied a Jerusalem Post report that Jakarta had sent a delegation to Israel on a secret visit, stressing that publishing such a hoax reflects an old way for the Israeli media to gain profits. “As long as Palestine is under Israeli occupation, Indonesia will not open diplomatic relations with Israel,” […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: One in three Muslims in Southeast Asia consider themselves more religious than their parents were at their age, with their faith informing decisions around personal spending, fashion, banking, travel and education, a survey has found. Just 21 percent of the region’s 250 million Muslims say they are less observant than their […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is set to visit flood-hit Pakistan soon to draw international attention to the country’s unfolding humanitarian crisis, sources said on Monday. Jolie, who previously visited victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan, and the 2005 earthquake, will visit the IRC’s emergency response operations and local organisations assisting […]
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Mon 19 September 2022: A court in Pakistan has ordered that terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan be dropped, his lawyer says. The court on Monday said Khan’s alleged offence did not attract terrorism charges, defence lawyer Faisal Chaudhry said. Khan, 69, was charged with terrorism for remarks made at a public rally on August […]
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Bashir Noorzai, center, a senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo attends his release ceremony, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Kabul, Afghanistan. An American navy veteran was exchanged for a key associate of the Afghan rulers. According to Afghanistan’s foreign minister, the Taliban and the US have completed a prisoner swap. Mark Frerichs, who was kidnapped […]
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Sun 18 September 2022: Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree on Saturday, officially changing the name of the capital Nur Sultan to Astana. According to the statement made by the Presidency of Kazakhstan, Tokayev approved the law envisaging amendments to some articles of the Constitution. Also, the presidential mandate was increased from five to seven years […]
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Sun 18 September 2022: Japan warned nearly two million people to evacuate as typhoon Nanmadol approached the country, local media reported. “Nearly two million people in southern Kyushu have been ordered to evacuate because a powerful typhoon, Nanmadol, is approaching the region,” Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a level 5 […]
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Sun 18 September 2022: The death toll from the border conflict with Tajikistan has risen to 36 people, with 129 wounded, Kyrgyzstan said on Sunday, Reuters reported. The former Soviet Kyrgyzstan said on Sunday republics clashed over a border dispute on Sept. 14-16, accusing each other of using tanks, mortars, rocket artillery and assault drones to attack outposts […]
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