Tue 11 March 2025: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs. According to the Philippine government, Duterte was taken into custody at the airport in the capital after returning from a trip […]
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Mon 10 March 2025: On February 24, a police crackdown swept across the Shaheen Bagh Rohingya settlement in New Delhi, sending waves of panic through the community. It emerged that law enforcement officials were rounding up Rohingya refugees without explanation, forcibly taking them to police stations for biometric verification. What initially appeared to be a bureaucratic […]
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Sun 09 March 2025: Japan is facing the worst shortage of full-time workers since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than half of local firms understaffed, a recent survey showed. Among the 11,000 local companies that responded to the January survey, 53.4% said they need more full-time workers, the highest since April 2020 […]
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Sat 08 March 2025: The US commerce secretary has called on India to stop purchasing weapons from Russia, saying that New Delhi and Washington should form the “best relationship.” “India has historically bought significant amounts of its military equipment from Russia, and we think that is something that needs to end,” US Commerce Secretary Howard […]
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Sat 08 March 2025: A Pakistani man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting the administrator of a community WhatsApp group who removed him from the chat, police said Saturday. Mushtaq Ahmed was shot dead on Thursday evening in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province that borders Afghanistan, which has a history of bloody sectarian violence. A man named […]
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Fri 07 March 2025: A group of Japanese scientists announced they’ve created “the largest of its kind” robotic hand, powered by cultivated human muscle tissue. According to Tokyo-based Kyodo News on Sunday, the researchers aim for this five-fingered biohybrid hand to be used in prosthetic applications. The hand, which measures 18 centimeters (7.08 inches) in […]
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Thu 06 March 2025: A new travel ban by President Donald Trump could bar people from Afghanistan and Pakistan from entering the US as soon as next week based on a government review of countries’ security and vetting risks, three sources familiar with the matter said. The three sources, who requested anonymity, said other countries could also […]
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Wed 05 March 2025: Amid rising US concerns over the Chinese AI app DeepSeek storing user data in China, two member of the US Congress are urging state governors to prohibit its use on government devices. In a letter obtained first by NBC News, Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Darin LaHood cautioned 47 governors and the […]
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Wed 05 March 2025: Scientists have identified the first cluster infection of the Zika virus in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, marking the first instance of multiple infections detected in one location. This development raises concerns for the densely populated city of 20 million, already grappling with high cases of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue. According to a […]
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Tue 04 March 2025: The European Union is providing €68 million ($70.9 million) this year for the Rohingya response, said the Bangladesh transitional government on Monday. The fund will be for the host communities in Bangladesh and for the people caught in violence in Myanmar’s Western Rakhine state, the government said in a statement after […]
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