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Iran activist sews lips together in political protest after fellow campaigner's suicide
Pacific Asia • 3:11 PM
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Iranian free speech activist Hossein Ronaghi has sewn his lips together in protest following the reported suicide of fellow activist Kianoosh Sanjari, according to posts on his social media account.
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Gautam Adani charged with defrauding investors in alleged bribery scheme
Pacific Asia • 4:02 AM
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US prosecutors on Wednesday charged Indian magnate and billionaire Gautam Adani over a bribery scheme that saw him allegedly pay hundreds of millions in bribes to Indian officials for solar energy supply contracts and hide payments from investors.
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IAEA chief welcomes Iran's 'concrete step' on capping enriched uranium stockpile
Pacific Asia • 1:57 PM
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Iran has taken steps to halt the expansion of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said, welcoming this "concrete step in the right direction" on Wednesday. Grossi's comments came after
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Grief and anger after killing of blasphemy suspect in Pakistan
Pacific Asia • 11:15 AM
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In Pakistan, a blasphemy-related case turned tragic in September. A doctor accused of blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed was allegedly shot dead by police officers and his body set on fire by a mob of fundamentalists. In a historic first, members of civil
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Tuesday, november 19, 2024
Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest
Pacific Asia • 10:07 AM
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Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation's founding treaty. Story by Morgan Ayre.
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Hong Kong court jails 45 democracy campaigners on subversion charges
Pacific Asia • 10:05 AM
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A Hong Kong court on Tuesday jailed all 45 defendants convicted of subversion in the city's largest national security trial, with "mastermind" Benny Tai receiving the longest term of 10 years. Story by Liza Kaminov and Bilal Tarabey.
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Hong Kong court jails 45 democracy campaigners in landmark trial
Pacific Asia • 7:39 AM
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45 ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. Legal scholar Benny Tai, whom the judges cal
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Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy campaigners to prison terms
Pacific Asia • 3:11 AM
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Hong Kong sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists under its national security laws on Tuesday, with former law professor Benny Tai receiving 10 years, the longest term yet. The defendants were charged with subversion for holding an unauthorised primary elec
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Students hurt in China primary school crash as nerves fray over recent attacks
Pacific Asia • 12:25 AM
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A driver in an SUV ploughed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in southern China on Tuesday, leaving several people injured, state media said, as worries spread over a spate of violent attacks in the country over the past week.
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Monday, november 18, 2024
India's north shrouded in smog as Delhi pollution hits season high
Pacific Asia • 1:04 PM
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Toxic smog engulfed much of northern India on Monday and pollution readings in New Delhi hit their highest of this pre-winter season, after dense fog overnight. Details with Delano D'Souza.
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China's second mass attack in a week spurs soul-searching
Pacific Asia • 10:09 AM
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A former student went on a stabbing rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing eight people and injuring 17, police said on Sunday, prompting further soul-searching just days after the deadliest attack in the country in a decade. More info
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Schools shut in India's New Delhi as toxic smog exceeds 60 times WHO limit
Pacific Asia • 9:58 AM
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Schools in New Delhi were closed Monday as toxic smog enveloped the Indian capital and exceeded the daily limit set out by the World Health Organization by 60 times. The polluted air is thought to be the cause of thousands of premature deaths each year,
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Bangladesh judge gives police one month to wrap up probe against ousted PM Hasina
Pacific Asia • 8:33 AM
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A judge in Bangladesh has given investigators a one-month deadline to wrap up their probe into ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina who, along with her aides, is accused of committing crimes against humanity in connection with the deadly crackdowns during
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Sunday, november 17, 2024
Thousands join Santa Claus parade in Tokyo to support children in need
Pacific Asia • 4:35 PM
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Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus filled the streets of Tokyo this weekend for an event aimed at raising funds for children battling illnesses. The festive parade, now in its sixth year, brought smiles and cheers to both participants and benefic
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Super Typhoon Man-yi batters Philippines' most populous island
Pacific Asia • 10:09 AM
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A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month.
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Super Typhoon Man-yi smashes power lines, wrecks houses in Philippines
Pacific Asia • 1:53 AM
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Super Typhoon Man-yi slammed into the Philippines, sparking tidal surges and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less tha
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Saturday, november 16, 2024
At least eight dead after stabbing attack at vocational school in eastern China
Pacific Asia • 8:34 PM
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At least eight people were killed and 17 others wounded Saturday in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China, and the suspect – a former student – has been arrested, police said. This is the second deadly attack within a week after a man ra
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Xi meets Biden, says China ready to work with Trump for ‘smooth transition’ of bilateral ties
Pacific Asia • 4:19 PM
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At a meeting on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Peru Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping told outgoing US President Joe Biden that Beijing is ready to work with the incoming Trump administration for a "smooth transition" of China-US ties as
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Philippines urges residents to flee as super typhoon Man-Yi strengthens on approach
Pacific Asia • 1:37 PM
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Philippine authorities issued an urgent appeal on Saturday for residents in low-lying areas and coastal towns to move to safety as super typhoon Man-Yi gained strength on its approach towards the country's main Luzon island. Details by Shirli Sitbon.
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Philippines warns of 'potentially catastrophic' Super Typhoon Man-yi
Pacific Asia • 9:32 AM
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A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on Saturday was intensifying and could have a "potentially catastrophic" impact, the state weather forecaster warned, with millions of people at risk from storm surges.
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Super Typhoon Man-yi slams into Philippines – the sixth major storm in a month
Pacific Asia • 3:23 AM
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Super Typhoon Man-yi made landfall in the Philippines on Saturday after the disaster-hit nation evacuated hundreds of thousands of people. It was the sixth major storm to hit the country in the past month, and authorities warned of a "potentially catastr
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Friday, november 15, 2024
Pygmy hippo fever: Moo Deng now has a theme song
Pacific Asia • 4:18 PM
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It's time for zoo-goers to forget pandas! Moo Deng, the adorable endangered pygmy hippo who's become an internet sensation in Thailand, now has an official song available on streaming platforms in multiple languages. The track's viral success has sparked
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'Green Islam': How Indonesian Muslims are helping protect the Earth
Pacific Asia • 1:04 PM
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Indonesia may be on the front lines of the fight against global warming, but many of its people are climate sceptics. A 2019 survey found that Indonesia – the world's biggest Muslim-majority country – has the highest proportion of climate change sceptic
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North Korea orders 'mass production' of attack drones, raising concerns over Russia alliance
Pacific Asia • 2:57 AM
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the mass production of attack drones, state media said, as military ties with Russia deepen. Pyongyang's August drone unveiling and recent defense pact with Moscow raise concerns over technology transfers, prom
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Sri Lankan president's leftist coalition sweeps snap parliamentary elections
Pacific Asia • 12:15 AM
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Barely two months after Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election, his National People's Power coalition swept a snap parliamentary vote on Friday, empowering him to implement poverty reduction progr
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Thursday, november 14, 2024
World's largest known coral found near Solomon Islands
Pacific Asia • 4:49 AM
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The world's largest known coral, visible from space, has been discovered in the waters of the Solomon Islands. Scientists said the discovery of the gigantic organism offered a glimmer of hope at a time when hotter and more acidic oceans have drained the
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Iran tells UN nuclear chief it is ready to negotiate, rejects 'intimidation'
Pacific Asia • 4:01 AM
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Iran is willing to resolve disputes with the United Nations over its compliance with safeguards on its nuclear programme but will not do so "under pressure and intimidation", Iran's foreign minister said Thursday at the start of high-stakes talks with UN
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Wednesday, november 13, 2024
Toxic towns in Kyrgyzstan battle dangers of Soviet-era radioactive waste
Pacific Asia • 4:11 PM
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Three decades on from independence, Kyrgyzstan is still dealing with the consequences of the Cold War nuclear arms race. Mining towns like Min-Kush provided the Soviet Union with essential uranium, leaving behind vast quantities of dangerous toxic waste
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Fears of Trump trade wars loom large as China's Xi heads to APEC meeting in Peru
Pacific Asia • 3:57 AM
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will join his US counterpart Joe Biden and the leaders of other Asia Pacific nations in Lima this week for an economic summit overshadowed by the prospect of a world embroiled in trade wars under US President-elect Donald Tru
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China clears memorials, censors reports after car ramming in Zhuhai kills 35
Pacific Asia • 3:23 AM
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Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Wednesday removed wreaths, candles and offerings at the scene of a deadly car rampage that killed at least 35 people and injured dozens more on Monday as the government in Beijing scrambled to censor
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IAEA chief to hold crunch talks in Tehran on Iran's nuclear programme
Pacific Asia • 1:57 AM
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UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi has appealed to Iran's leadership to take steps to resolve longstanding issues with his agency ahead of high-stakes talks in Tehran on Wednesday over the country's nuclear programme.
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Tuesday, november 12, 2024
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COP29 nations approve new rules for creation of global carbon market
Pacific Asia • 6:13 PM
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Nations at COP29 on Monday agreed new ground rules for a global carbon market that would reward countries for reducing emmissions by giving them "carbon credits" they could sell to higher-polluting countries. COP29 president Mukhtar Babayev said the agre
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Pakistan choked by thick smog, limits outdoor activities
Pacific Asia • 1:22 PM
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Pakistan's Punjab province banned most outdoor activities and ordered shops, markets and malls in some areas to close early from Monday to curb illnesses caused by intense air pollution. Story by Eliza Herbert.
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Disaster-weary Philippines hit by fourth typhoon in under a month
Pacific Asia • 4:04 AM
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Philippines ordered thousands to evacuate and shut ports as Typhoon Toraji hit its northeast coast near Dilasag, officials reported Monday. The fourth typhoon in under a month, Toraji struck about 220 kilometres from the capital Manila. No casualties or
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Pakistan choked by thick smog, limits outdoor activities
Pacific Asia • 12:40 AM
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Pakistan's Punjab province banned most outdoor activities and ordered shops, markets and malls in some areas to close early from Monday to curb illnesses caused by intense air pollution.
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Saturday, november 9, 2024
Iran denies plot to assassinate Trump, calls for confidence-building with US
Pacific Asia • 5:42 PM
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Saturday denied US allegations that Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards ordered the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump and called for confidence-building between Washington and Tehran. Iranian analysts a
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Pakistani separatists kill 26 in a powerful suicide bombing at a rail station
Pacific Asia • 11:26 AM
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including soldiers and railways staff, and wounding about 50 others, some critically, officials said. Story by Morgan Ayre.
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Pakistani separatists kill 26 in a powerful suicide bombing at a rail station
Pacific Asia • 9:45 AM
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including soldiers and railways staff, and wounding about 50 others, some critically, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's green gold: From mountain slopes to the world's teacups
Pacific Asia • 9:00 AM
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Sri Lanka has earned a global reputation for its high-quality tea, thanks to the generations of workers who bring this "green gold" to life. From the high-altitude slopes where leaves are carefully picked, to the processing and tasting that define its un
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Railway station blast in southwest Pakistan kills at least 26
Pacific Asia • 7:27 AM
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At least 26 people were killed, including several soldiers, when a blast ripped through a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday in an apparent suicide attack claimed by a local separatist group.
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North Korea jams GPS signals, affecting planes and ships in South Korea
Pacific Asia • 5:03 AM
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South Korea’s military said North Korea disrupted GPS signals from border areas for a second consecutive day on Saturday, affecting civilian flights and vessel operations.
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Why did Balochistan separatists kill 26 people in railway station suicide bombing?
Pacific Asia • 12:54 AM
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including soldiers and railway staff, and wounding about 50 others, some critically, officials said. For more information, FRANC
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Friday, november 8, 2024
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Tuesday, november 5, 2024
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Iran arrests female student who stripped to protest harassment
Pacific Asia • 10:15 AM
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Iranian authorities arrested a female student on Saturday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university, reports said. The woman, who has not been identified, had been harassed inside Tehran's pre
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Two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed in helicopter crash
Pacific Asia • 8:29 AM
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Two of Iran's Revolutionary Guards have died in a helicopter crash during an anti-terror operation in the country's restive southeast, state media said Monday, adding that the fatalities included a general in the elite force.
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Turkey sacks three more mayors in Kurdish-majority southeast
Pacific Asia • 7:03 AM
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The Turkish government stripped three elected pro-Kurdish mayors of their posts in southeastern cities on Monday and replaced them with state officials, citing charges on terrorism-related offences.
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Saturday, november 2, 2024
Chinese investors show irrational enthusiasm for Trump ‘meme stock’
Pacific Asia • 3:47 PM
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The share price of a small Chinese company in financial difficulties has skyrocketed in recent days. The company's only real asset is its name: Wisesoft, which in Chinese sounds like the phrase 'Trump wins big'. Chinese investors are prone to buying shar
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Air pollution levels in Lahore rise 40 times above WHO limit
Pacific Asia • 11:32 AM
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Air pollution levels in Pakistan's second biggest city Lahore reached an unprecedented high on Saturday, soaring more than 40 times above the WHO’s acceptable limit for pollutants. Authorities have imposed strict new restrictions, including partial work-
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Friday, november 1, 2024
China sends three new-generation astronauts to space station
Pacific Asia • 4:46 PM
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China has declared its latest space mission "a total success", after the Shenzhou 19 spaceship carried three astronauts to its space station. The young crew includes the country's first female space engineer. The launch comes some 21 years after China co
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Typhoon Kong-rey makes landfall in Taiwan, killing at least 2
Pacific Asia • 3:28 AM
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Two months after Typhoon Gaemi battered Taiwan, Typhoon Kong-rey made landfall on the island on Thursday, as massive waves, serious floods and ferocious winds cut power, cancelled flights, killed at least two people and injured 580.
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Thursday, october 31, 2024
Fight for women's rights in Afghanistan is a universal one, former minister says
Pacific Asia • 10:17 PM
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Afghan women are now forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Koran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister. It's the latest restriction on women following laws that ban them from raising their voices and showing their fa
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In Shanghai, Halloween sends shivers down China's spine
Pacific Asia • 7:13 AM
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Chinese authorities are seeking to limit Halloween celebrations in Shanghai, fearing that the festivities could serve as a platform for political dissent. For the regime, the October 31 holiday, imported from the United States, could become a means of cr
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Wednesday, october 30, 2024
North Korea launches intercontinental missile, escalating threat to US mainland
Pacific Asia • 11:37 PM
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North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday, marking its first test in nearly a year, aimed at demonstrating its capability to strike the US mainland. Leader Kim Jong Un ordered the launch, calling it a “military action” to counte
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Will Russia's war against Ukraine go global? Enter the North Koreans
Pacific Asia • 7:22 PM
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Ukraine's president warns it could lead to "a world war." Is Volodymyr Zelensky overreacting by sounding the alarm over the deployment of North Korean soldiers to Russia? NATO believes the troops are destined for the Kursk region on the border with Ukrai
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China sends three astronauts on space mission to further hopes of landing on moon
Pacific Asia • 7:13 AM
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A three-person crew of Chinese astronauts set off on a mission to Tiangong space station on Wednesday where they will work on projects to advance China's goal of sending its own astronauts on the Moon and constructing a lunar base. "We're witnessing a ne
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Chinese crew blasts off on 'dream' mission to Tiangong space station
Pacific Asia • 7:11 AM
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A three-person crew of Chinese astronauts set off on a mission to Tiangong space station on Wednesday where they will work on projects to advance China's goal of sending its own astronauts on the Moon and constructing a lunar base. China's only woman spa
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Tuesday, october 29, 2024
