Fukushima residents react cautiously after start of treated water release
AP :Fish auction prices at a port south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant fell Friday amid uncertainty over how seafood consumers will respond...
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Health of Thailand’s ex-PM Thaksin is still a concern
Reuters :Thailand’s billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was still being treated in hospital on Friday and his condition remained a concern, a senior doctor said,...
New Zealand offers residency to Ukranians fleeing war
AFP :New Zealand on Saturday announced a new pathway to residency for people fleeing the war in Ukraine. Permanent residency will be available to people...
Kenyan minister apologises after main airport hit
Al Jazeera :Power went off in many parts of the country on Friday with electricity distribution company Kenya Power attributing the loss to ‘a system...
Kremlin calls accusations it killed Wagner boss Prigozhin an ‘absolute lie’
Reuters :The Kremlin said that Western suggestions that Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on its orders in a plane crash were an...
`Denmark to ban Quran burnings’
Deutsche Welle :Denmark’s justice minister said on Friday that the Scandinavian country would ban the burning of Islam’s holy book, the Quran. The government has...
India and China agree to ‘de-escalate’ border tensions
BBC Online :India and China have agreed to de-escalate tensions along their disputed border after a conversation between its leaders, a senior Indian official said....
Global warming link to intense rains in India’s Himalayas
Reuters : Torrential rains that have battered India’s Himalayas in recent years, killing hundreds of people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage, are...
UN warns Sudan conflict ‘threatens to consume the entire country’
Al Jazeera :War and hunger risk destroying Sudan where fighting between rival generals erupted in mid-April, the United Nations has warned. “The war in Sudan...