Mon 25 July 2022: On Monday, the military junta in Myanmar executed four people, including prominent political activists, according to a regime spokesperson. According to a local news website, the military regime executed people over the weekend but refused to give their families access to the bodies. The website also noted that Jimmy Kyaw Min […]
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Sun 24 July 2022: On Kyushu, the largest island in southern Japan, a volcano erupted, spewing ash and rocks into the air as well as thick black smoke. Residents in nearby towns were advised to leave on Sunday evening, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries there. The Sakurajima volcano, which is […]
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Sun 24 July 2022: Popular short-form video platform TikTok has released its latest “Community Guidelines Enforcement Report” for Q1 2022 (January – March 2022) which showed that some 12,490,309 videos were removed from Pakistan. According to the latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, Pakistan had a removal rate of 96.5 per cent before any views and […]
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The suspect in Ateneo shooting, identified by the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) as Chao Tiao Yumol, is now under the police custody. Sun 24 July 2022: The Philippine police reported that a shooting incident occurred Sunday afternoon on a university campus in Metro Manila, leaving three people dead and two others injured. The gunman […]
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Sun 24 July 2022: A Hindu woman who had earlier accused a Muslim businessman, Prince Qureshi of raping her has made a u-turn and said that she was hired by two persons to frame the man. Earlier, the woman, aged 24 years, had said that the Qureshi, aged 27 years, made a false marriage promise […]
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Sat 23 July 2022: Large-scale protests against what they referred to as a “theft” of the Punjab provincial assembly vote for the party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan have taken place in Pakistan’s major cities. Despite winning a by-election there earlier this week, Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party lost a crucial vote on […]
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Sat 23 July 2022: Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a case alleging genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority have been rejected by judges at the United Nations’ highest court. The decision made on Friday makes it possible for The Gambia’s contentious case—which could take years to resolve—to proceed fully at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). […]
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Fri 22 July 2022: In light of the threat letter he received from Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang last month, actor Salman Khan has applied for a weapon license for self-defense. According to the Mumbai Police “Actor Salman Khan applied for a weapon license for self-protection at the Mumbai Police, after he recently received a threat letter.” […]
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Fri 22 July 2022: Protesters say some ‘brutally assaulted’ after soldiers descend on Colombo sites in early hours of Friday morning. Colombo, Sri Lanka – The military in Sri Lanka has taken control of the presidential secretariat in Colombo, after what members of the country’s months-long protest movement described as a “brutal assault”. Soldiers overnight […]
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Thu 21 July 2022: Russia’s experience in Ukraine affecting Beijing’s calculations on when and how — not whether — to invade, the head of the CIA said Wednesday. “Our sense is that it probably affects less the question of whether the Chinese leadership might choose some years down the road to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they […]
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