Sun 20 October 2024: Prabowo Subianto took the oath Sunday as Indonesia’s eighth president, succeeding Joko Widodo who led the country for 10 years and vowing to be “leader of all Indonesians.” The inauguration ceremony was held in Jakarta with foreign dignitaries in attendance. Prabowo, who served as defense minister in Jokowi’s Cabinet, was elected […]
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Sat 19 October 2024: With his new book “Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, The Man Behind the Machine (Simon and Schuster; 2024)”, Dhirendra K. Jha continues his relentless study of the history and making of the Indian right. This book is preceded by his biography of Godse and his books “Shadow Armies: Fringe Organisations […]
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Sat 19 October 2024: Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has urged US President Joe Biden to release jailed Pakistani national, Aafia Siddiqui, Anadolu Agency reports. Sharif expressed concern in a letter sent to Biden on 13 October regarding Siddiqui’s fragile mental and physical health in prison, the local daily, Dawn, reported on Friday. Siddiqui is serving an 86-year prison […]
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Sat 19 October 2024: Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday put the last of India’s diplomats in the country “on notice” that Canada will not tolerate any more criminal activity on its territory. The warning follows the expulsion earlier this week of six Indian diplomats after Canada’s national police force said there is ample […]
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Fri 18 October 2024: The United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan called on Thursday for an investigation into reports that a large group of Afghan migrants had been shot and killed on the Afghanistan-Iran border. Afghan media outlets including Tolo News, citing witnesses, said more than 200 Afghan migrants who entered Iran illegally were attacked on […]
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Thu 17 October 2024: A Bangladeshi court has ordered the arrest of self-exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India more than two months ago after being toppled in a student-led uprising. Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), said on Thursday the court had issued arrest warrants for Hasina […]
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Wed 16 October 2024: The two-day summit of government leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) kicked off in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Wednesday, with premiers and senior officials from 12 countries in attendance. The 23rd meeting of the Council of the Heads of Government of SCO member states is presided over by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. […]
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Wed 16 October 2024: Sri Lanka has formally decided to apply for BRICS membership, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath announced Monday. Speaking to the diplomatic corps in the capital Colombo, Herath said the country will submit its membership request at the upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, scheduled for Oct. 23-24. Sri Lanka’s secretary of foreign […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: After eight years of silence, Li, who works in Ethiopia, is finally ready to confront her father for sexual abuse crimes he committed against her during her teenage years. Determined to seek justice before it’s too late, she returns to China with her fiance to collect evidence and initiate legal proceedings against […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: The Maldives has announced a ban on vaping and related products, according to an official statement. The archipelago nation’s President Mohamed Muizzu directed his administration to take concrete steps to ban vaping, said the statement, released on Tuesday. “President Dr. Muizzu stated that he has instructed the relevant authorities to initiate […]
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