Mon 17 February 2025: A Taliban delegation has arrived in Japan on what is the first visit by the group that rules Afghanistan, according to media in the East Asian country. The delegation, consisting of foreign affairs, education, economy and health officials, arrived on Sunday for a weeklong visit, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported. The […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Afghanistan rejected disbanding its Ministry of Vice and Virtue, despite appeals from foreign ministers from several European countries, as well as Canada and Australia, local TOLO News reported on Sunday. Saif-ul-Islam Khyber, spokesman for the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said the ministry serves the needs of the Afghan people and […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: The population of the Indian pangolin has drastically plummeted in Pakistan due to a variety of factors, mainly poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss, retaliatory killings and climate change. The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is the only pangolin species found in the South Asian country, which is classified as endangered on the […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Indian officials said the accident happened amid a surge of passengers waiting for trains to attend a major Hindu religious festival. Ten women and three children were among at least 18 people killed in a crowd crush at a train station in India’s capital New Delhi, as thousands of Hindu pilgrims […]
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Sat 15 February 2025: Scientists have confirmed that a set of skeletal fossils discovered in southern China belonged to duck-billed dinosaurs from over 70 million years ago, expanding the region’s fossil record of these large, toothy creatures that likely migrated from North America. The bones were found in May 2009 by a Chinese amateur fossil […]
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Fri 14 February 2025: China’s marriage rate has hit a 44-year low, with only 6.1 million couples tying the knot in 2024 – a 20.5% decline from the previous year. Meanwhile, divorces increased by 1.1%. This sharp decline in marriages is expected to lead to a decrease in the birth rate in 2025, according to […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The explanation is rather simple: the state has not been creating good jobs for years. It has been in the news lately that Gujarati migrants make up a huge portion of those who have been deported by the Trump administration to India. In fact, it is understood that Gujaratis are overrepresented […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: Pakistan has been ranked as the most vulnerable country to climate change in 2022, followed by Central American country Belize and Italy, the latest data showed. According to data in the Climate Risk Index (CRI) for 2025 report released by European think-tank Germanwatch on Wednesday, Pakistan’s ranking has been mainly due […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: A mischievous monkey sparked a nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka over the weekend, after it wandered into a key grid substation in Panadura, a city west of the capital. According to Energy Minister, the curious creature’s intrusion caused a power system imbalance, plunging the entire country into darkness. “A monkey […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: About 40% of dog farms in South Korea have shut down since the country passed a law banning dog meat consumption last year, according to the Agriculture Ministry on Monday. It is expected that 60% of dog farms in South Korea will close by the end of 2025, Seoul-based Yonhap News […]
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