US, Japan, Philippine forces patrol China Sea
Agency : The United States sent a reconnaissance aircraft while Japan and the Philippines deployed naval ships for a joint patrol in the contested South...
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A couple forced to sell house
BBC : A Muslim couple in India have been hounded out of their newly-purchased home by their Hindu neighbours who said they would not allow...
Guardian sells The Observer to Tortoise Media
Reuters : Britain’s Guardian said on Friday it had agreed to sell The Observer to startup Tortoise Media, which sought to overcome staff opposition by...
Israel committed genocide in Gaza: Amnesty
Reuters : Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war in a report published on Thursday, an...
Imran Khan threatens civil disobedience movement
Reuters : Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a...
Defiant Macron seeks new French PM
AFP : President Emmanuel Macron on Friday was to hold talks with political factions as he seeks to name a new prime minister and find...
HK court rejects challenge to nat’l security law
Al Jazeera : A Hong Kong court has dismissed a jailed protester’s bid for early release in the first legal challenge to the Chinese territory’s...
5 dead in Indonesia landslides
AFP : Flash floods and landslides struck Indonesia’s main Java island earlier this week, killing at least five people, the national disaster agency said Friday,...
US urges release of Mohammadi
Reuters : The United States on Thursday urged Iran’s unconditional release of Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi after she was allowed medical leave, saying she never...
Pollution suspected kills 13 in Mexico
Al Jazeera News : Contaminated IV feeding bags may have caused the deaths of 13 children in central Mexico in the latest blow to the...
Biden mulls preemptive pardons for US officials
Al Jazeera : US President Joe Biden is considering whether to issue blanket pardons for current and former public officials who risk being targeted by...