Thu 26 December 2024: Hundreds of people held demonstrations in Japan over the weekend, seeking apology from the US military over a sexual assault case involving a serviceman. Governor Tamaki Denny was among the crowd in the southernmost Okinawa province where the protests were held. They demanded the US military “give an apology and compensation […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: An Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau on Wednesday, the Kazakh Emergency Ministry said, adding that there were 25 survivors. According to the ministry, 62 passengers and five crew […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration on Wednesday claimed that at least 46 people were killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province. Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the interim Taliban administration, said that Pakistani jets bombed four locations in Paktika’s Barmal district on Tuesday night, killing […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Dozens of Rohingya organizations worldwide have called for “justice, equality, peaceful coexistence, and inclusive governance” in Rakhine state on Myanmar’s western coast as the conflict between military junta forces and the rebel Arakan Army escalates. Some 28 Rohingya organizations issued a joint statement on Monday calling on the rebel Arakan Army, […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry on Monday welcomed the reopening of Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Kabul for the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. On Sunday, the Saudi Embassy in Kabul said on X that it was resuming the mission’s activities “based on the government’s keenness to provide all […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: A Kashmiri wedding is measured in quintals, a historical unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms, or about 220 pounds. And this, some argue, is its undoing. If you have been to a Kashmiri wedding recently and your friend were to inquire about it, the most common query would be, “How […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and rebel Arakan Army in Myanmar, a fresh 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, a Bangladeshi official said on Sunday. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Rohingya in its southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. Most of the Rohingya Muslims fled from Myanmar […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Japan is taking steps toward making life on the Moon a reality, with Kyoto University and construction giant Kajima Corp teaming up to develop a lunar habitat that generates artificial gravity, local media reported Sunday. The “Neo Lunar Glass” project aims to create a paraboloid structure capable of mimicking Earth-like conditions […]
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Sun 21 December 2024: The Chinese government has protested the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.” A Chinese Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday urged the US to stop arming Taiwan and stop what it called “dangerous moves that undermine peace and […]
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Sat 21 December 2024: Following an influenza outbreak, Japan reported thousands of cases across the country, local media has reported. Some 94,259 flu patients were reported in one week up to December 15 in 5,000 hospitals and clinics across the country, according to NHK on Saturday. Total cases in the country have now reached 718,000 in the […]
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