Saturday | January 18, 2025 The expansive industrial complex stretches across the countryside, lined with rows of sprawling manufacturing facilities resembling giant warehouses. Splashes of red and gold—symbols of good fortune in Chinese culture—adorn the otherwise muted gray structures, while the scent of Peking duck wafts from an on-site canteen. However, this bustling hub isn’t […]
Tuesday | January 14, 2025 Taiwan has seen a “significant rise” in the number of individuals charged with spying for China in recent years, according to new data released by the island’s security bureau, amid escalating intimidation by Beijing. Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) claimed in a report issued Sunday that the number of people
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Monday | October 28, 2024 Former President Donald Trump on Saturday invited several Muslim leaders onstage with him at a campaign rally in Michigan as he courts Arab American and Muslim voters disillusioned or angry over US policy on Israel and Gaza in the critical battleground state. About 30 minutes from Dearborn, which last year
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Mon May 6, 2024 A woman’s allegation that her husband had “unnatural sex” was dismissed by an Indian judge since it is permissible for a husband to coerce his wife into having sex. The decision, rendered last week by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, highlights an Indian legal loophole that exempts married couples who have
Singapore | Sat, September 2, 2023 A former member of Singapore’s ruling party on Saturday scored a landslide victory to become the city-state’s president, in an election seen as a barometer of public sentiment amid economic challenges and high-profile scandals. According to the elections office, 66-year-old former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam received 70.4% of
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Seoul and Tokyo | Thu, August 10, 2023 South Korea authorities evacuated more than 10,000 people and closed schools in flood-hit areas as tropical storm Khanun swept over the peninsula on Thursday, having pounded southern Japan over the past week. Khanun, a tropical storm that had been downgraded from a typhoon, made landfall on the
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Sunday | July 2, 2023 At least 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed fighting in Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The private military organization, notably in eastern Ukraine where its “most powerful group” was engaged in combat, has incurred “enormous losses,” according to the Ukrainian president. Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv on Saturday that
Wednesday | June 7, 2023 As an orange haze of wildfire smoke from Canada hovers over parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, officials in New York state are warning residents to avoid being outdoors due to the potential health risk that could persist Wednesday. As heavy smoke from more than 100 wildfires blazing north
Manveena Suri | 27th January 2019 For years, residents in the northern Indian city of Joshimath have complained to local officials that their homes are sinking. Since approximately 100 families had to be evacuated in the previous week, authorities were compelled to act and hasten the arrival of experts to ascertain the cause. Hundreds of
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Sunday | December 18, 2022 It was one of the heaviest bombardments in history. A shock-and-awe campaign of overwhelming air power aimed at bombing into submission a determined opponent that, despite being vastly outgunned, had withstood everything the world’s most formidable war machine could throw at it. In December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II, more
