Tue 11 February 2025: China on Monday warned US President Donald Trump that trade protectionism “leads nowhere,” urging him to avoid escalating tensions into a trade war, according to state media reports. “There are no winners in trade wars or tariff wars,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing. Beijing’s comments came in […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: China hopes the Dalai Lama can “return to the right path” and is open to discussions about the Nobel Peace laureate’s future as long as certain conditions are met, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who turns 90 this year, fled Tibet in 1959 for […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Bangladesh has launched a major security operation after protesters were attacked by gangs allegedly connected to the ousted regime of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina. A government statement on Sunday said the operation began after gangs “linked to the fallen autocratic regime attacked a group of students, leaving them severely injured”. Jahangir Alam […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: The Uttar Pradesh government launched a bulldozer action on Sunday, February 9, against a mosque in the Kata area of Kushinagar district. The demolition followed allegations by Hindutva workers that the mosque had been built on encroached government land. The action came after the expiration of a high court stay order […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: Narendra Modi’s BJP finally takes Delhi, India’s political heart, which until now has remained out of its reach. New Delhi, India – Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have stunningly lost the Delhi assembly election in a major turnaround for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is now […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: On Wednesday, the US deported 104 Indians on the longest such military flight used so far, before Modi’s visit to Washington. New Delhi, India – Kulvinder Kaur had tried and tried again to call her husband in the United States. After two weeks of the connection not going through, she was consumed […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: A total of 3,477 wild elephants and 1,190 people have died in Sri Lanka between 2015 and 2024 due to the ongoing human-elephant conflict, said a minister on Thursday. Minister of Environment Dammika Patabendi told parliament that 1,466 wild elephants died between 2015 and 2019, while 2,011 more fatalities were recorded […]
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Thu 06 February 2025: Wave of attacks overnight also targeted houses and businesses belonging to Hasina’s Awami League supporters. Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh have demolished and set fire to the home of the country’s founding leader, as his daughter, ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, delivered a fiery social media speech calling on her supporters to […]
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A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla) Thu 06 February 2025: Recent developments in Syria have garnered significant global attention, disrupting the international focus on the crises in Ukraine […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: South Korea and Australia barred officials in select departments on Wednesday from using Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. Access to the service has been blocked on computers linked to external networks in foreign, trade, and defense ministries, The Interior and Safety Ministry sent a notice Tuesday […]
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