Sat 25 January 2025: Community leader and preacher Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday conveyed to Indian lawmakers the Kashmiri religious community’s concerns over a proposed law seeking more government control over Waqf properties. Waqf is endowment of land or property by a Muslim for religious, educational or charitable purposes. Farooq attended the parliamentary committee in […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: The Afghan interim administration Friday rejected arrest requests sought by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor against Taliban leaders, calling it “politically motivated.” It called Karim Khan’s move “devoid of a fair legal basis,” according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry on X. Khan on Thursday filed two requests for arrest […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Indonesia’s free meal program has reached 650,000 school children in 31 provinces, according to President Prabowo Subianto. “From January to April 2025, this program aims to target 3 million children. By April to August 2025, it will reach 6 million children. In September, we hope to cover 15 million children, and […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Experts say May and June are hatching periods, the most appropriate time to catch larvae and juveniles. Taiwan has announced it will cull up to 120,000 green iguanas with local governments asking the public to help identify iguana nests, recommending fishing spears as the most humane means of killing the animals. […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan Thursday sought arrest warrants for Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan’s interim Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Khan said his office filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC over the situation in the war-torn nation. […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: Head of transitional government makes request to EU central bank’s chief on sidelines of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus sought the assistance of European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday to recover billions of dollars stolen during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime. “Some […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have successfully conducted groundbreaking experiments to produce oxygen and components for rocket fuel, according to a report. The crew of the Shenzhou-19 mission carried out the world’s first in-orbit artificial photosynthesis experiments, creating oxygen and ethylene, the South China Morning Post reported Monday. The […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: China urged the US on Tuesday to lift sanctions on Cuba, terming the reinstating of Havana to its so-called list of “state sponsors of terrorism” unfounded. “Repeatedly using the so-called list of state sponsors of terrorism to impose unilateral sanctions against Cuba is completely groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told […]
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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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