Tue 04 March 2025: Around 2,000 firefighters have been working from the air and ground to put out Japan’s worst wildfire in half a century in the northeastern Iwate prefecture, local media reported on Tuesday. The wildfire has burned around 2,600 hectares as of Tuesday morning, left one person dead, and forced nearly 4,000 people […]
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Tue 04 March 2025: The UN has assured Bangladesh’s transitional government of technical support as it seeks to document the atrocities committed against protesters from some Islamic groups during deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime. Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, who took office after Hasina resigned and fled to neighboring India last August following weeks of […]
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Mon 03 March 2025: In the politics surrounding Urdu, the primary focus is on the Muslim community with the objective of fostering polarisation. Besides indulging in other propaganda tactics, a favourite pastime of those who engage in divisive politics is to attack Muslims by targeting the Urdu language. Under this political stratagem, ‘Kathmulla’ is the latest term […]
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Mon 03 March 2025: More than 80% Japanese support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is “unavoidable,” the latest government survey showed. According to the last year’s survey, the support for capital punishment edged up 2.3 percentage points to 83.1% compared to the previous survey in 2019, the proportion calling for its […]
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Sun 02 March 2025: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said he fears a possible foreign funding cut would put thousands of persecuted Rohingya, currently sheltering in southeastern Bangladesh, in hunger and insecurity. Bangladesh has been hosting more than 1.2 million Rohingya in the southeastern Cox’s Bazar district since they fled a military […]
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Sat 01 March 2025: China has launched an AI model to diagnose rare genetic diseases more quickly and accurately, state-run media reported. PUMCH-GENESIS aims to bridge the gap in diagnosing diseases by making the process faster and easier as delayed diagnosing and misdiagnosing can be critical for patients, according to the Xinhua news agency. The model can promptly flag possible […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: Thailand’s government repatriated dozens of Uyghur Muslims to China from a Bangkok detention centre on Thursday, a move confirmed by Beijing, Anadolu has reported. The country’s national police commissioner, Police General Kitrat Phanphet declined to comment on the reports, insisting that it is a “security matter” and “more time is needed” before he […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: The rise reflects an increase in marriages after the COVID pandemic as well as government policies taking effect. South Korea’s birthrate, the lowest in the world, rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, as policy efforts to incentivise companies and Koreans to embrace parenthood started to pay off. […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: US President Donald Trump said Saturday if Afghanistan wants aid from America, the Islamic Emirate must return US military equipment left behind during the 2021 troop withdrawal. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump said the Taliban’s military parades of the equipment “makes him angry. The IEA has said […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: A wildfire in northeastern Japan led to the evacuation of thousands of alarmed residents, caused damage to structures, and triggered the deployment of military helicopters to combat the intense fire, local media reported on Thursday. Aerial footage from public broadcaster NHK showed a helicopter dumping water on one of multiple locations […]
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