Sun 15 September 2024: Life in parts of China was severely disrupted Monday as Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai, state media reported. The storm could be the most powerful to hit the financial hub in 75 years, prompting local authorities to issue a Level III emergency response. Typhoon Bebinca, the 13th typhoon to strike […]
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Sun 15 September 2024: The International Crisis Group (ICG) has said the Taliban anti-drug policies provide an opportunity to stabilize the country’s economy although it has “devastated livelihoods in rural areas”. ICG, an international think-tank, said in a report published Thursday, titled ‘Trouble In Afghanistan’s Opium Fields: The Taliban War On Drugs’, that the Taliban’s […]
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Sun 15 September 2024: The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has concluded its four-year statutory review of China tariffs, announcing significant increases on a range of goods. Beginning September 27, tariffs on lithium-ion batteries for vehicles, critical minerals, steel, and aluminum will rise to 25%. Electric vehicles will face a dramatic tariff […]
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Sat 14 September 2024: When India was partitioned along religious lines, people hurriedly moved to cross the newly drawn borders. It was an apocalyptic spectre! However, interventions by leaders such as Maulana Azad, whose famous speech at Jama Masjid, provided some reassurance, slowing the pace of mass migration by giving Muslims a sense of security. […]
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Fri 13 September 2024: In a rare disclosure, North Korea has publicly unveiled its uranium enrichment capabilities, as reported by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. During a visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute, leader Kim Jong Un emphasized the need to expand the country’s nuclear program, aiming to boost the production of nuclear weapons for […]
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Thu 12 September 2024: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has accused the IMF of stalling on a loan deal, prompting concerns over its fate. Islamabad, Pakistan – When Pakistan reached yet another staff-level agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July for a $7bn, three-year loan programme, it was hailed as a lifeline for both […]
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Thu 12 September 2024: Australia has moved to strip senior military officers of their distinguished service medals over alleged war crimes committed on their watch in Afghanistan. The announcement on Thursday comes after the 2020 Brereton Report found credible evidence that Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in Afghanistan were involved in the unlawful killing of […]
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Wed 11 September 2024: A NIA-ATS court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow on Wednesday sentenced renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, along with Umar Gautam and ten others, to life imprisonment in a 2021 case related to religious conversion. Judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi delivered the verdict. The life imprisonment is under IPC section 121A —conspiracy to commit an […]
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Image Courtesy: Interpol twitter.. Wed 11 September 2024: A total of $1.04 billion indrugshave been confiscated after a 16-day Interpol operation with South Korea and six other nations, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported Wednesday. The operation was conducted in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos — dubbed the Golden Triangle — where 29 convicts were arrested. Police said the operation codenamed […]
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Wed 11 September 2024: Timor-Leste has had much to celebrate recently. August 30 marked 25 years since the Popular Consultation – or “The Referendum”, as many call it – when more than 98% of the population braced themselves against brutal repression to vote for their freedom. Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, recently visited. This was […]
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