Thu 22 May 2025: A ‘comprehensive review’ of the US’s chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 has also been ordered. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the United States is reviewing whether to designate Afghanistan’s rulers, the Taliban, as a “foreign terrorist organization”. Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee during […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Three children were among five dead, while several others were injured when a bus carrying students was targeted in a blast in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Wednesday morning, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. Yasir Iqbal Dashti, a government official in Khuzdar, said at least 38 people were wounded in the […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: On Monday, India’s Supreme Court cast a skeptical eye on Madhya Pradesh BJP minister Kunwar Vijay Shah’s apology for his comments targeting Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, probing whether it was merely a show of “crocodile tears” to dodge legal trouble. With Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, Colonel Qureshi was one of the two […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: RSF also called for the immediate release of media professionals detained for doing their job and for the abusive legal proceedings against them to be dropped. New Delhi: The organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has noted a decline in the media economy and worsening conditions for journalism in India. In a press […]
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Sun 18 May 2025: With the guns silenced, it is time to take stock and try to make sense of the developments of the past weeks. Narendra Modi came on television on the evening of May 12 and told the nation that Pakistan had begged for a ceasefire, and that India had conceded because it had already […]
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Sat 17 May 2025: Decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith failed to have reports that he ‘murdered four Afghan men’ quashed. Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost an appeal against a civil court ruling that implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Australia’s Federal Court dismissed the appeal lodged by Ben Roberts-Smith on Friday, […]
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Sat 17 May 2025: Air India has lobbied Indian officials to halt rival IndiGo’s leasing tie-up with Turkish Airlines (THYAO.IS), opens new tab, citing business impact as well as security concerns sparked by Istanbul’s support for Pakistan, according to a source and a document seen by Reuters. Amid growing public anger in India against Turkey’s […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook and told him not to expand his production facilities in India, but to do so in America. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said during his visit to Qatar. “I said to […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: A fresh row over contested areas has erupted between India and China, with two sides issuing diverging statements. India on Wednesday rejected what it called “preposterous attempts” by China to rename places in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state. “We have noticed that China has persisted with its vain and preposterous attempts […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: Japanese children continue to suffer from poor mental health, with the nation ranking 32nd among 43 developed and emerging nations, a UNICEF report released Wednesday showed. Japan’s mental health ranking improved from 37th in 2020 to 32nd, but its youth suicide rate worsened, now the fourth highest among wealthy nations, up […]
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