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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Sat 28 December 2024: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the forced deportation of Afghan refugees, which was intended to reduce terrorism, has actually created hatred that is detrimental to regional peace. Speaking to reporters in Adiala Jail, Khan criticized Pakistan’s recent airstrikes on Afghanistan and said that this is the second […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday to delay the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a nationwide ban, according to officials. “In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: The Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday it has attacked “centers and hideouts of evil elements and their supporters” across the Durand Line, locla media reported. “Several points across the hypothetical line including centers and hideouts of evil elements and their supporters from where attacks were organized in Afghanistan were […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: Dhaka says it will probe the botched mutiny, including the role of alleged ‘foreign’ backers. Bangladesh has ordered a commission to investigate a failed 2009 paramilitary mutiny and subsequent crackdown, including the role of alleged “foreign” backers, the inquiry chief said. The mutineers stole thousands of weapons from the headquarters of […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Hundreds of people held demonstrations in Japan over the weekend, seeking apology from the US military over a sexual assault case involving a serviceman. Governor Tamaki Denny was among the crowd in the southernmost Okinawa province where the protests were held. They demanded the US military “give an apology and compensation […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: An Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau on Wednesday, the Kazakh Emergency Ministry said, adding that there were 25 survivors. According to the ministry, 62 passengers and five crew […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration on Wednesday claimed that at least 46 people were killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province. Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the interim Taliban administration, said that Pakistani jets bombed four locations in Paktika’s Barmal district on Tuesday night, killing […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Dozens of Rohingya organizations worldwide have called for “justice, equality, peaceful coexistence, and inclusive governance” in Rakhine state on Myanmar’s western coast as the conflict between military junta forces and the rebel Arakan Army escalates. Some 28 Rohingya organizations issued a joint statement on Monday calling on the rebel Arakan Army, […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry on Monday welcomed the reopening of Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Kabul for the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. On Sunday, the Saudi Embassy in Kabul said on X that it was resuming the mission’s activities “based on the government’s keenness to provide all […]
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