Wed 30 June 2021: Germany withdraws last contingent of its troops from Afghanistan after a near 20-year deployment in the country, the defense minister said. Last week, Germany’s Defense Ministry said around 570 troops were still deployed. The last of them have now been flown out of the northern city of Mazar — ending a nearly […]
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Tue 29 June 2021: Fung Wai-kong, 57, a former senior journalist at Hong Kong’s now-closed pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was released from custody on Tuesday. Fung Wai-kong, was arrested 2 days ago, at the airport, media reported. In an email response for comment on Fung’s release, police said only that a male suspect had been […]
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Tue 29 June 2021: Five gang members in India wore full protective gear to cremate a man they had murdered, pretending he died from Covid-19, police said Tuesday. The victim was invited to a party by the men, whom he owed four million rupees ($54,000), and suffocated, according to police. The gang wore full PPE […]
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Mon 28 June 2021: The situation at the Chinese-Indian border is stable, China’s foreign ministry said Monday, commenting on media reports about Indian’s military buildup in the area. Earlier in the day, Deccan Herald reported, citing sources, that India had increased troops deployed at the Chinese border up to 200,000 servicemen, which is 40% more […]
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Mon 28 June 2021: Cambodian authorities on Sunday confiscated a pet lion from a Chinese national after it was seen in TikTok videos being cuddled and bathed in a Phnom Penh villa. The 18-month-old male, weighing 70 kilograms, had been imported from overseas by the owner to be raised in his home, environment ministry spokesman […]
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Mon 28 June 2021: Twitter on Monday took down from its website a wrong map of India that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as a separate country after a backlash. The map displayed in the “Tweep Life” section of Twitter’s website showed J&K and Ladakh outside India. The distorted map was flagged by a […]
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Sun 27 June 2021: At least seven people have died and hundreds more were injured as a result of an explosion that caused the collapse of a building in the Mogbazar neighborhood of Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul islam said. “We are investigating the cause of the blast and a probe body […]
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Sat 26 June 2021: India has confirmed 48,698 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 30,183,143, the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday. The death toll from the disease has reached 394,493 people, with 1,183 new fatalities being recorded […]
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Sat 26 June 2021: Washington defended its decision on Friday to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan amid reports of rapid military advancement by the Taliban and heightened fears of the militant group’s takeover of Kabul. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said maintaining the status quo was not an option. “We are seeing a higher […]
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Fri 25 June 2021: The advancing monsoon and the increasing water level in Ganga in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj town have thrown up a challenge for authorities: Dealing with the mass graves in the sandbanks, suspected to be of Covid patients. As the water level rises and the sand banks crumble, the bodies are floating up. […]
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