Fri 28 August 2026: Malaysia has completed arrangements for the first stage of a voluntary return scheme, under which at least 1,500 eligible Myanmar refugees are scheduled to go back on 29 September, officials said. In July, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Myanmar’s military-backed authorities had agreed to accept 5,000 members of the persecuted Rohingya […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: Far-right Hindutva groups in the US must be reined in as they are threatening lives and spreading hate, while perpetuating supremacist ideas and discriminatory conduct against Americans, a new report warns. The report, titled “Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism”, is a damning 68-page document prepared by Rutgers […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from wasting, including about 1 million with life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, UNICEF said Tuesday. UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan Tajudeen Oyewale said nearly 40% of children admitted to hospitals with severe wasting and medical complications are babies under 6 months old. Children under 2 account for 83% of severe acute malnutrition […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a devastating flash flood swept through northern Nepal, destroying villages, roads, bridges and power infrastructure near the border with Tibet. Nepal Police said late on Wednesday that 157 bodies had been recovered, while emergency teams continued searching for survivors […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: More than 1,000 people from across the United States have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling for the cancellation of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s planned event at Madison Square Garden in New York on August 29. The letters, gathered by the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and allied groups, […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The U.S. said Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation that broke into some of the country’s most sensitive government institutions, including the Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Senate. The Justice Department said authorities had seized domains linked to two hacking platforms used in the campaign, […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: A fire erupted early Wednesday in the children’s ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital, killing at least 15 newborns, according to local media reports. Geo News, citing hospital officials, reported on Wednesday that the nursery at PIMS housed 16 newborns at the time of the incident. Only […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: Marking the ninth anniversary of the large-scale flight of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, 16 diplomatic missions in Dhaka—including those of the UK, Australia, Canada, and the EU—on Tuesday reaffirmed the Rohingya’s right to return to their homeland in Myanmar. Bangladesh continues to host roughly 1.2 million persecuted Rohingya along the southeastern […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: China on Tuesday urged the US not to disrupt its cooperation with Iran after Washington announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” a sweeping campaign intended to completely isolate Tehran from the global financial system. “China’s cooperation with Iran is conducted within the framework of international law and should not be disrupted,” Foreign Ministry […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: Twenty-one cricket captains request PM Sharif’s government to ensure Khan is given timely and independent medical care. Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister and cricket captain, Imran Khan, must be given “humane treatment and proper medical care”, urge a group of cricket greats in a letter seen by Al Jazeera and addressed […]
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