Wed 26 February 2025: On Wednesday, China stated that Taiwan’s efforts to buy weapons from the United States “won’t protect Taiwan independence forces,” according to the state-operated Global Times. Zhu Fenglian, a representative from Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, made these remarks in response to news that Taiwan’s governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is considering a […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Authorities in India imposed 84 blackouts across 16 states and territories, a report by Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition has said. New Delhi: India imposed 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, only one behind Myanmar, which topped the list of global internet shutdowns. However, among democratic nations, India recorded the highest internet […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: Several social activists, locals and thinkers from the state feel that UCC could spark religious clashes in the communally tense state. New Delhi: Days after Uttarakhand became the first state in India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the Gujarat government announced that it was forming a high-level committee to discuss […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: Starbucks’ Malaysian operator, Berjaya Food, reported a loss of 67 million Malaysian ringgit ($15.1 million) over the last six months of 2024, according to company figures released on Thursday. Revenue for the period dropped 46% to $55.6 million compared to the same timeframe in the previous year. Berjaya Food’s stock price […]
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Sun 23 February 2025: A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human receptor as the COVID-19 virus, a Hong Kong daily reported on Thursday, citing the latest study. The study, conducted by the Guangzhou Laboratory in collaboration with the Guangzhou Academy of […]
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Sat 22 February 2025: The Afghan interim government’s National Defense Ministry has turned a former key U.S. military base known as NKC (New Kabul Compound) into a hospital to provide medical treatment for those crippled by the U.S.-led forces during 20 years of military occupation of Afghanistan. Situated next to the U.S. embassy in […]
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Fri 21 February 2025: The interim Taliban administration Thursday called Afghanistan joining the Rome Statue “devoid of legal validity,” adding that it has no legal obligation to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The statement came after Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, last month sought two arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: The embassy says Afghan nationals face forced relocations in Islamabad amid rising tensions between the neighbours. The Afghanistan embassy in Pakistan has warned that the government wants to remove all Afghan refugees from the capital, Islamabad, and the adjoining city of Rawalpindi. The embassy issued a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, saying Afghan […]
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China’s People’s Liberation Army-Navy’s Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang travels in the Torres Strait off Australia’s coast, on February 11, 2025 [Australian Defence Force via AP] Thu 20 February 2025: Three Chinese navy ships have charted a course along Australia’s eastern coast in a move described as ‘unusual’ by the country’s defence minister. Australia and New […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: Police in the Indian-administered Kashmir capital Srinagar seized more than 600 books by or about Abul Ala Maududi, a noted twentieth-century Islamic scholar and founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the largest religious organisations in the Indian subcontinent. In a statement on X, police said: “Based on credible intelligence regarding the clandestine […]
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