Fri 21 February 2025: The interim Taliban administration Thursday called Afghanistan joining the Rome Statue “devoid of legal validity,” adding that it has no legal obligation to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The statement came after Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, last month sought two arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: The embassy says Afghan nationals face forced relocations in Islamabad amid rising tensions between the neighbours. The Afghanistan embassy in Pakistan has warned that the government wants to remove all Afghan refugees from the capital, Islamabad, and the adjoining city of Rawalpindi. The embassy issued a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, saying Afghan […]
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China’s People’s Liberation Army-Navy’s Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang travels in the Torres Strait off Australia’s coast, on February 11, 2025 [Australian Defence Force via AP] Thu 20 February 2025: Three Chinese navy ships have charted a course along Australia’s eastern coast in a move described as ‘unusual’ by the country’s defence minister. Australia and New […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: Police in the Indian-administered Kashmir capital Srinagar seized more than 600 books by or about Abul Ala Maududi, a noted twentieth-century Islamic scholar and founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the largest religious organisations in the Indian subcontinent. In a statement on X, police said: “Based on credible intelligence regarding the clandestine […]
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Mon 17 February 2025: A Taliban delegation has arrived in Japan on what is the first visit by the group that rules Afghanistan, according to media in the East Asian country. The delegation, consisting of foreign affairs, education, economy and health officials, arrived on Sunday for a weeklong visit, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported. The […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Afghanistan rejected disbanding its Ministry of Vice and Virtue, despite appeals from foreign ministers from several European countries, as well as Canada and Australia, local TOLO News reported on Sunday. Saif-ul-Islam Khyber, spokesman for the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said the ministry serves the needs of the Afghan people and […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: The population of the Indian pangolin has drastically plummeted in Pakistan due to a variety of factors, mainly poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss, retaliatory killings and climate change. The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is the only pangolin species found in the South Asian country, which is classified as endangered on the […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Indian officials said the accident happened amid a surge of passengers waiting for trains to attend a major Hindu religious festival. Ten women and three children were among at least 18 people killed in a crowd crush at a train station in India’s capital New Delhi, as thousands of Hindu pilgrims […]
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Sat 15 February 2025: Scientists have confirmed that a set of skeletal fossils discovered in southern China belonged to duck-billed dinosaurs from over 70 million years ago, expanding the region’s fossil record of these large, toothy creatures that likely migrated from North America. The bones were found in May 2009 by a Chinese amateur fossil […]
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Fri 14 February 2025: China’s marriage rate has hit a 44-year low, with only 6.1 million couples tying the knot in 2024 – a 20.5% decline from the previous year. Meanwhile, divorces increased by 1.1%. This sharp decline in marriages is expected to lead to a decrease in the birth rate in 2025, according to […]
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