Sun 05 January 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Saturday that Starlink applied to launch internet services in Pakistan but was “waiting for approval from the government.” It is in response to a post by a Pakistani netizen, Sanam Jamali, who said Starlink internet services could “leap” Pakistan “into the future, where every citizen has the […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: Tomiko Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, in central Japan. Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died […]
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Sat 04 January 2025: Myanmar’s embattled junta government said it would release almost 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to mark the country’s independence day. More than 5,800 prisoners — including 180 foreigners — will be freed, the junta said in a statement on Saturday, when the country marks 77 years of independence […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: The appeal comes after at least 14 incidents of violence, threats, and disruptions targeted Christian gatherings across the country during the Christmas season, the leaders and church groups wrote in a press release. New Delhi: Over 400 senior Christian leaders and 30 church groups on Tuesday (December 31) have issued an urgent […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: China on Tuesday pushed back calls from the World Health Organization on COVID-19 data sharing, stressing Beijing was adhering to “scientific transparency.” “In terms of the traceability of the COVID-19, China has always adhered to the spirit of scientific openness and transparency, and has actively supported and participated in global scientific […]
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Wed 01 January 2025: China’s President Xi Jinping has said that “no one can stop” unification with Taiwan, as he addressed the nation in a New Year’s speech. “Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can sever our blood ties, and no one can stop the historical trend […]
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Tue 31 December 2024: Beijing on Tuesday dismissed as “false” the claims that the US Treasury was breached in a “major cybersecurity incident,” state media reported. “These unfounded accusations (are) lacking evidence,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters in Beijing. Mao’s comments came in response to a report by US-based New York Times, which […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: Thousands of South Koreans have canceled their flight tickets after a deadly airliner crash that claimed 179 lives, local media reported on Monday. Jeju Air Co. revealed that around 68,000 flight reservations had been canceled, among them over 33,000 were for domestic flights, while over 34,000 were for international routes, according […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: The press wing of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government said many of these incidents happened ‘between August 5 and August 8 when there was no government’. New Delhi: Bangladesh has called figures given by India’s Ministry of External Affairs in the parliament on purported attacks on Hindus in the neighbouring country “misleading […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: The crash occurred as the Jeju Air flight from Bangkok, Thailand, landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. At least 176 people have been killed when a passenger plane caught fire after skidding off a runway and crashing at an airport in South Korea’s Muan city, the country’s National Fire […]
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