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22 Dec
China's air pollution worsened in 2023, the first time it has done so in a decade, a study released on Friday said.
22 Dec
Eam Orn kneels in a forest in northwest Cambodia, pressing his hands together before an offering of bananas studded with smoking incense, and prays for the return of his land.
21 Dec
An Israeli strike killed the head of the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip said. Crossing director Bassem Ghaben and three other people were killed as Israeli aircraft targeted the infrastructure, the crossings authority and the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory said. The…
21 Dec
Chinese authorities are facing a "race against time" to ensure victims of the deadliest earthquake in years can be sheltered from freezing winter temperatures, a local official told AFP on Thursday. The quake, which struck just before midnight on Monday on the border between northwestern Gansu and Qinghai provinces, killed at least 135 people. The…
21 Dec
Twelve people have been killed and 13 others injured in a mining accident in northeast China, state media reported on Thursday. The incident took place at 3:50 pm local time (0750 GMT) on Wednesday at a coal mine on the outskirts of Jixi city in Heilongjiang province, state broadcaster CCTV said. The accident -- which…
21 Dec
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Pyongyang will not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if "provoked with nukes," state media said Thursday, while Seoul and its allies called for "dialogue without preconditions." Kim's warning follows a meeting between South Korea and the United States last week in Washington, where they discussed nuclear deterrence…
21 Dec
Tens of thousands of global users of X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday reported problems using the Elon Musk-owned social network. Reports of the platform's troubles began spiking just before 0600 GMT on monitoring site Downdetector. "User reports indicate problems at X (Twitter)," the site said. Timelines on the platform were emptied and no new posts…
20 Dec
Suriname's highest court on Wednesday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for ex-president Desi Bouterse, who lost an appeal against his conviction for the 1982 killings of political opponents. The verdict puts an end to the legal saga surrounding the onetime strongman of the small Dutch-speaking South American nation, but some fear the decision could result…
20 Dec
Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu said Wednesday it will suspend shipments of all car models in Japan and abroad following news it had rigged safety tests. The announcement came after an independent panel also found the malpractice dated back to 1989, when the oldest instance was confirmed and reports said the firm faced on-site inspections by government…
20 Dec
Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, a human rights group said, defying an international campaign for clemency. Samira Sabzian, who had been in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn in Ghezel Hesar prison in the Tehran satellite city of Karaj,…
20 Dec
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched her campaign for a fifth term on Wednesday, as opposition parties called for civil disobedience and said the January 7 polls would not be fair. "If I can form government again, we will turn the entire of Bangladesh into a prosperous and developed country," Hasina told reporters in the…
20 Dec
Thailand has stopped issuing new gun licences for a year, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday, after a series of high-profile shootings. The change comes into effect immediately, the ministry said, and follows debate in the kingdom about firearms control following deadly gun incidents. A 14-year-old boy opened fire in a Bangkok shopping mall in…

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