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Kutina has defended her lifestyle saying she and her children were happy living in the cave
Mystery surrounds Russian mum and children found in Indian cave
BENGALURU — Police in India are trying to piece together the story of a Russian woman who was found living in a cave in the southern state of Karnataka with her two young daughters.Nina Kutina was rescued on 9 July by policemen who were on a routine patrol near Ramteertha hills in the Gokarna forest, which borders the tourist paradise of Goa.Authorities say the 40-year-old and her daughters - six and five years old - do not have valid documents to stay in India. They have been lodged in a detention centre for foreigners near Bengaluru, the state capital, and will be deported soon.Kutina has defended her lifestyle in two video interviews to Indian news agency ANI, saying she and her children were happy living in the cave and that "nature gives good health".But even a week after...
July 17, 2025

Mystery surrounds Russian mum and children found in Indian cave

A worker inspects fabric for export before the dyeing process at the Trisula Textile Industries factory in Cimahi, West Java on April 15.
Striking trade deal with US was an ‘extraordinary struggle,’ Indonesia says
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States has reached a trade agreement with Indonesia, after negotiations Jakarta described as an “extraordinary struggle.”The deal will see the US impose a 19% tariff on Indonesia’s exports, a reduction from the 32% Trump had initially threatened to impose on the country.After first announcing the agreement on Truth Social, Trump told reporters that it calls for Indonesia to not charge any tariffs on American exports. Trump also said Indonesia committed to buying “$15 Billion in US Energy, $4.5 Billion in American Agricultural Products, and 50 Boeing Jets, mny of them 777’s.”On Wednesday afternoon, Indonesia’s government confirmed the deal, saying President Prabowo Subianto had negotiated it directly with Trump over...
July 16, 2025

Striking trade deal with US was an ‘extraordinary struggle,’ Indonesia says

Thailand's Buddhist institution has faced scrutiny for misbehaving monks
Thai police arrest woman who allegedly seduced and blackmailed Buddhist monks
BANGKOK — Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then pressured them into making large payments to cover up their intimacy.The possible violation of the celibacy rule for monks has rocked Buddhist institutions and gripped public attention in Thailand in recent weeks.At least nine abbots and senior monks involved in the scandal have been disrobed and cast out of the monkhood, the Royal Thai Police Central Investigation Bureau said.Wilawan Emsawat, in her mid-30s, was arrested at her home in Nonthaburi province north of the capital Bangkok on charges including extortion, money laundering and receiving stolen goods. Police said they traced money transferred to her by a senior monk from a bank account...
July 16, 2025

Thai police arrest woman who allegedly seduced and blackmailed Buddhist monks

Nimisha Priya is currently lodged in the central jail of Yemen's capital Sanaa
Yemen postpones execution of Indian nurse on death row
DELHI — Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say.Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death for killing a local man, was set to be executed on 16 July, according to campaigners working to save her.The nurse, who is from the southern Indian state of Kerala, denied murdering her former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi, whose chopped-up body was discovered in a water tank in 2017.The postponement of her execution is only a temporary reprieve — the only way she can be saved is if Mahdi's family pardons her.Yemen's Islamic judicial system, known as Sharia, offers her one last hope — securing a pardon from the victim's family by paying diyah, or blood money,...
July 16, 2025

Yemen postpones execution of Indian nurse on death row

Pabai Pabai, right, and Paul Kabai, both elders from the Torres Strait Islands, travelled to Cairns to hear the decision in their case against the Australian government
Australia wins landmark climate battle against Indigenous elders
SYDNEY — The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts of climate change.In 2021, community elders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai launched legal action against the then-Liberal government for breaching its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from the impacts of climate change.But a Federal Court judge dismissed the case and said climate policy was a matter for parliament, not the courts.The ruling also found that the government did not owe a duty of care to protect the islands from the impacts of climate change.The Torres Strait Islands - located between far-north Queensland and Papua New Guinea - are made up of about 270 islands, of which only a few dozen are inhabited.About 4,000 people live on the islands,...
July 15, 2025

Australia wins landmark climate battle against Indigenous elders

Fauja Singh at his ancestral home in Beas Pind village in Punjab state, India
World's 'oldest' marathon runner dies at 114 in hit-and-run
DELHI — Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114.Police say Singh was crossing a road in the village where he was born in Punjab when an unidentified vehicle hit him. Locals took him to hospital, where he died.Singh, a global icon, set records by running marathons across multiple age categories, including when he was over 100. He began running at 89 and ran nine full marathons between 2000 and 2013, when he retired.His running club and charity, Sikhs In The City, said its upcoming events in Ilford, east London, where he had lived since 1992, would be a celebration of his life and achievements.The hit and run happened on Monday as the centenarian was walking in his birth village,...
July 15, 2025

World's 'oldest' marathon runner dies at 114 in hit-and-run

Debris of the Air India flight 171 after it crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad
As theories swirl about Air India crash, key details remain unknown
AHMEDABAD — While the preliminary report into what caused the loss of Air India Flight 171 last month has provided some answers, it has also prompted a wave of speculation about its cause.The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a building less than a minute after take-off from the city of Ahmedabad in western India en route to London, killing 241 people on board, along with 19 on the ground. One passenger survived.Information contained in India's Air Accident Investigation Bureau report, the first official account of what happened, has raised questions about the role of the pilots.However, experts within the aviation industry claim investigators have been highly selective in what they have chosen to say.Under international protocols, the state leading an air accident investigation is...
July 15, 2025

As theories swirl about Air India crash, key details remain unknown

260 people died when the Air India plane crashed in June, including 240 who had been onboard and 20 more at ground level
Boeing fuel switches safe, regulator says after Air India crash
SINGAPORE — The US aviation regulator has said fuel control switches in Boeing airplanes are safe, following their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June.The safety of the switches has become a key point of concern after a preliminary report on the disaster was released by investigators on Friday.That report said fuel to the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner engines was cut off moments after take-off from Ahmedabad airport, and highlighted past FAA reports that suggested the switches should be inspected for safety.In an email seen by the BBC, Air India's chief executive warned against jumping to "premature conclusions" following the report's publication.The disaster involving London-bound Flight 171 was one of the worst aviation incidents...
July 14, 2025

Boeing fuel switches safe, regulator says after Air India crash

Hong Kong's Youth Hostel Scheme aims to young people at affordable rates while they save up for their own place
Housing-starved Hong Kong turns Covid quarantine site into hostel
SINGAPORE — Once designated a quarantine facility during the Covid pandemic, a sprawling site in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong, is set to be home to a youth hostel for thousands of young people, as the city deals with a housing crisis.The project in Kai Tak, named Runway 1331 - after a former airport on the site - opened on Sunday for trial operations, offering 250 rooms for rent starting at HK$200 ($25; £19) a night.It's part of Hong Kong's Youth Hostel Scheme, which aims to house young people at affordable rates while they save up to rent or buy their own place.Houses in Hong Kong are among the most expensive in the world - and notoriously small.With waits for public rental flats lasting five years on average, many opt to rent subdivided flats where dozens of tenants are packed...
July 14, 2025

Housing-starved Hong Kong turns Covid quarantine site into hostel

Police in Mumbai detain a woman who was participating in a protest this week against alleged injustice to Marathi speakers
Row over language turns violent in India's richest state
MUMBAI — For weeks, a battle over language and identity has been raging in India's richest state, Maharashtra.The row began in April after the Maharashtra government made it compulsory for state-run primary schools to teach Hindi as a third language, apart from English and Marathi (the state's dominant language). This, it said, was in line with a federal policy which mandates that children be taught three languages in school.The National Education Policy (NEP), introduced in 1968, aims to promote and regulate education in India and the government updates it occasionally. The latest iteration of the policy, introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government five years ago, is being implemented in stages and has run into controversy earlier.The Maharashtra government's...
July 11, 2025

Row over language turns violent in India's richest state

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