25-01-2025 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: Gegong Jijong lined up with hundreds of other protesters on a cold afternoon last month near the Siang River in India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, shouting antigovernment slogans. “No dam over Ane Siang [Mother Siang],” the protesters in Parong village demanded. The Siang River, cutting …
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25-01-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has decided to walk out of talks with the government aimed at defusing tensions that have dominated the country’s political landscape for the past three years, prompting fears of new street confrontations between the …
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25-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Hamas is expected to hand over to Israel the names of four hostages to be released on Saturday under the Gaza ceasefire deal. It is thought they will be soldiers and civilians, all female. They will be freed in exchange for 180 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. …
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25-01-2025 LOS ANGELES: Five new fires have erupted in southern California ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the state. The blazes named Laguna, Sepulveda, Gibbel, Gilman and Border 2, flared up on Thursday in the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura and Riverside. Meanwhile, firefighters have made …
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25-01-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists, including some convicted of blockading a reproductive health clinic and intimidating staff and patients. The pardons were part of a round of executive orders signed by Trump on Thursday, one of several in the first week of his presidency. …
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25-01-2025 ABUJA: Nigeria’s authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group which flogs people for listening to music, a terrorist organization and banned it across the country. Lakurawa is a new militant group which carries out attacks, targeting local communities in north-western Nigeria and across the border with Niger. Nigerian …
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25-01-2025 NEW YORK/ KABUL: “It’s like the United States doesn’t actually understand what I did for this country, it’s a betrayal,” Abdullah tells the BBC. He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. He worries he …
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24-01-2025 THE HAGUE: The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he will seek arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Taliban government in Afghanistan over the persecution of women and girls. Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to suspect Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice …
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24-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instill a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces. Police they brought into …
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24-01-2025 JENIN/ WEST BANK: Israel’s deadly raid in Jenin has entered its third day, with its forces issuing a forced evacuation threat to residents of the refugee camp in the city. Hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp started leaving their homes on Thursday. “The Israeli army, using loudspeakers on …
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