Record 281 aid workers killed in 2024
AFP : A staggering 281 aid workers have been killed around the world so far this year, making 2024 the deadliest year for humanitarians, the...
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Thai cyanide serial killer sent to death
AFP : A Thai woman believed to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history was convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning...
Myanmar Junta killed 735 Rakhine civilians in Year
Agency : Over 700 civilians have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded by Myanmar’s junta and its allies in Rakhine State within a year,...
King Charles’s coronation cost UK taxpayers £72 m
AFP : King Charles III’s coronation last year cost British taxpayers £72 million ($90.7 million), official accounts released late Thursday revealed.Critics have argued taxpayer spending...
Indian SC tells Delhi to step up vehicle restrictions
AFP : Indian Supreme Court on Friday ordered authorities in the smog-choked capital New Delhi to establish checkpoints on all 113 roads into the city...
Western leaders on guard with China ahead of Trump return
AFP : Chinese President Xi Jinping pitched his country as a font of stability at the G20 summit this week as a second Trump term...
10 killed in Afghanistan attack
AFP : Ten people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a Sufi shrine in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, an interior ministry spokesman told...
42 killed in sectarian violence in Pakistan
Al Jazeera : Gunmen have opened fire on convoys of Shia pilgrims in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 42 people, according to authorities in the...
S’pore hangs drug trafficker
Al Jazeera : Singapore has carried out its third hanging of a convicted drug trafficker in a week despite appeals for clemency from the United...
226 health workers killed in Lebanon since October 7: WHO
AFP : Nearly 230 health workers have been killed in Lebanon since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza following the October 7 resistance campaign...
Trump picks Pam Bondi for US AG
Reuters : US President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate former Florida Attorney General (AG) and loyalist Pam Bondi to be US Attorney...