Fri 24 January 2025: The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan Thursday sought arrest warrants for Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan’s interim Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Khan said his office filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC over the situation in the war-torn nation. […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: Head of transitional government makes request to EU central bank’s chief on sidelines of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus sought the assistance of European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday to recover billions of dollars stolen during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime. “Some […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have successfully conducted groundbreaking experiments to produce oxygen and components for rocket fuel, according to a report. The crew of the Shenzhou-19 mission carried out the world’s first in-orbit artificial photosynthesis experiments, creating oxygen and ethylene, the South China Morning Post reported Monday. The […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: China urged the US on Tuesday to lift sanctions on Cuba, terming the reinstating of Havana to its so-called list of “state sponsors of terrorism” unfounded. “Repeatedly using the so-called list of state sponsors of terrorism to impose unilateral sanctions against Cuba is completely groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: A landslide triggered by heavy rain on the Indonesian island of Java killed at least 16 people, officials said on Tuesday. “Sixteen people were found dead after being buried by a landslide in … Pekalongan Regency, Central Java on Monday at 17.30 local time. The landslide buried two houses and dragged […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: Bangladesh said Tuesday that it will consider India’s failure to repatriate former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a breach of an extradition treaty between the two countries. Hasina, who fled to India on Aug. 5 last year following student-led protests that toppled her Awami League (AL) regime, faces charges of mass murder […]
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Wed 22 January 2025: China said it has discovered a total of 168 tons of gold reserves at three mining sites. The China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources said that 102.4 tons of gold reserves were found in the Anbali North mining area in Gansu Province, 41.3 tons from the Hadamengou mining […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has announced on Tuesday the release by the United States of an Afghan prisoner in exchange for two US detainees, saying the deal was brokered by Qatar. “An Afghan fighter Khan Mohammad imprisoned in America has been released in exchange for American citizens and returned to […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: Geologists have discovered a large “rare” earth deposit in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, with potential resources of 1.15 million tons, the state-run Xinhua News reported on Saturday. According to the China Geological Survey (CGS), critical rare earth elements such as praseodymium, neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium exceed 470,000 tons in this newly […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: China’s Vice President Han Zheng has met with billionaire Elon Musk as part of Beijing’s high-level representation ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump. Han met with Musk, the CEO of Tesla, “welcoming American companies … to seize the opportunities, share in the outcomes of China’s development, and make […]
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