Fri 07 February 2025: A total of 3,477 wild elephants and 1,190 people have died in Sri Lanka between 2015 and 2024 due to the ongoing human-elephant conflict, said a minister on Thursday. Minister of Environment Dammika Patabendi told parliament that 1,466 wild elephants died between 2015 and 2019, while 2,011 more fatalities were recorded […]
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Thu 06 February 2025: Wave of attacks overnight also targeted houses and businesses belonging to Hasina’s Awami League supporters. Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh have demolished and set fire to the home of the country’s founding leader, as his daughter, ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, delivered a fiery social media speech calling on her supporters to […]
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A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla) Thu 06 February 2025: Recent developments in Syria have garnered significant global attention, disrupting the international focus on the crises in Ukraine […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: South Korea and Australia barred officials in select departments on Wednesday from using Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. Access to the service has been blocked on computers linked to external networks in foreign, trade, and defense ministries, The Interior and Safety Ministry sent a notice Tuesday […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: Chinese scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) method to forecast dramatic increases in the intensification of tropical cyclones over a short period, state media reported on Tuesday. Developed by researchers from the Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the latest method sheds new light on improving […]
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“Tokyo Camii” mosque on Inokashira Street, is one of the largest in Japan and is a holy place where Muslims living in Japan come to pray. Tue 04 February 2025: With Japan’s Muslim population now estimated at 350,000 the country faces increasing pressure to provide burial plots that align with Islamic customs in a […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: In a tit-for-tat move, China on Tuesday imposed additional tariffs on some US products, according to local media. According to China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs, Beijing imposed additional tariffs on certain imported goods originating from the US, including a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: The South African government has again asked Taiwan to relocate its representative office out of Pretoria, the diplomatic capital of South Africa, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said. The South African government last month “again sent a letter to our representative office in South Africa, demanding that our office move out of the […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: A court in Delhi has ordered action against a police officer for a “hate crime” related to the 2020 riots, which left over 50 people, mostly Muslims, dead. “Clearly, the station house officer Police Station Jyoti Nagar, and other unknown police officials engaged themselves in hate crimes against the victim,” Judicial […]
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Sun 02 February 2025: And lied about it. There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that […]
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