Wed 22 January 2025: A landslide triggered by heavy rain on the Indonesian island of Java killed at least 16 people, officials said on Tuesday. “Sixteen people were found dead after being buried by a landslide in … Pekalongan Regency, Central Java on Monday at 17.30 local time. The landslide buried two houses and dragged […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: Bangladesh said Tuesday that it will consider India’s failure to repatriate former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a breach of an extradition treaty between the two countries. Hasina, who fled to India on Aug. 5 last year following student-led protests that toppled her Awami League (AL) regime, faces charges of mass murder […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: China said it has discovered a total of 168 tons of gold reserves at three mining sites. The China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources said that 102.4 tons of gold reserves were found in the Anbali North mining area in Gansu Province, 41.3 tons from the Hadamengou mining […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has announced on Tuesday the release by the United States of an Afghan prisoner in exchange for two US detainees, saying the deal was brokered by Qatar. “An Afghan fighter Khan Mohammad imprisoned in America has been released in exchange for American citizens and returned to […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: Geologists have discovered a large “rare” earth deposit in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, with potential resources of 1.15 million tons, the state-run Xinhua News reported on Saturday. According to the China Geological Survey (CGS), critical rare earth elements such as praseodymium, neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium exceed 470,000 tons in this newly […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: China’s Vice President Han Zheng has met with billionaire Elon Musk as part of Beijing’s high-level representation ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump. Han met with Musk, the CEO of Tesla, “welcoming American companies … to seize the opportunities, share in the outcomes of China’s development, and make […]
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Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, right, meets with Lieutenant General SM Kamrul Hassan, principal staff officer of the Bangladesh army, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan [Handout/Inter-Services Public Relations] Mon 20 January 2025: Since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, Pakistan and Bangladesh have edged closer as politics in both countries ride on a general anti-India sentiment. Islamabad, Pakistan – The […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: China on Monday executed a man who rammed his car into the public, leaving 35 people dead and 42 others injured. Fan Weiqiu, 62, was given a death sentence last month over the incident that took place outside a sports complex on Nov. 11, 2024 in the Zhuhai city of southern […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: China’s population fell for the third consecutive year in 2024, the data released on Friday showed, indicating that the trend is likely to continue in the world’s second most populous country even faster in the coming years, as well as a shortage of working-age people. Last year, the population in China […]
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Fri 17 January 2025: A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to jail time over a graft case related to the Al Qadir University Trust. The former premier was sentenced to 14 years behind bars, and his wife to seven, in the thrice-postponed verdict announced inside […]
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