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Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia on October 22, 2024
Xi and Putin hail tightening ties in call hours after Trump inauguration
HONG KONG — Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country’s ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.The two leaders have made it an annual tradition to speak around the new year – a feature of a close personal rapport that’s helped cement a partnership between their countries that’s only grown as Putin wages war on Ukraine.Xi expressed his readiness to “guide China-Russia relations to a new height” and respond to “external uncertainties” with the “stability and resilience of China-Russia ties,” a readout from China’s Foreign Ministry said.The two countries should deepen “strategic coordination” and “practical cooperation”...
January 22, 2025

Xi and Putin hail tightening ties in call hours after Trump inauguration

Yoon Suk Yeol made his first appearance at the trial after missing the first few hearings
South Korea president denies ordering arrest of lawmakers
SEOUL — South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol has made his first appearance at his impeachment trial, where he denied ordering the arrest of lawmakers during his attempt to impose martial law.Parliament voted to impeach Yoon last month, and last week the constitutional court began a trial to decide whether to permanently remove him from office.Yoon is also facing a separate criminal investigation into whether he led an insurrection. He has been detained since last week.Security was tight on Tuesday as Yoon was transported by van from the detention center, where he is being held, to the constitutional court.Police formed human walls and held up anti-riot barricades to stop hundreds of his supporters who had gathered nearby from getting too close. Last weekend saw violence as...
January 21, 2025

South Korea president denies ordering arrest of lawmakers

Nine beaches were closed on January 14 after the marble-sized balls started washing up
Mystery balls on Sydney beaches found to contain fecal bacteria
SYDNEY — The mysterious balls that forced the closure of several beaches in Sydney last week were found to contain saturated fatty acids, E. coli and fecal bacteria, authorities say.Sydney's Northern Beaches council said it has sent the debris to the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for further analysis.Nine beaches, including popular spots Manly and Dee Why, were closed on 14 January after the marble-sized balls started washing up.It came months after thousands of black blobs started appearing on the city's coasts in October, prompting authorities to close some of its most famous beaches for several days and order a massive clean-up.The latest batch of balls was cleaned up from harbour beaches this week, the Northern Beaches council said in its statement on...
January 21, 2025

Mystery balls on Sydney beaches found to contain fecal bacteria

Niluper and her three children in Turkey
China deportation looms for Uyghurs held in Thailand
BANGKOK — A Uyghur refugee, she has spent the past decade hoping her husband would join her and their three sons in Turkey, where they now live.The family was detained in Thailand in 2014 after fleeing increasing repression in their hometown in China's Xinjiang province. She and the children were allowed to leave Thailand a year later. But her husband remained in detention, along with 47 other Uyghur men.Niluper – not her real name – now fears she and her children may never see him again.Ten days ago, she learned that Thai officials had tried to persuade the detainees to sign forms consenting to be sent back to China. When they realized what was in the forms, they refused to sign them.The Thai government has denied having any immediate plans to send them back. But human rights...
January 21, 2025

China deportation looms for Uyghurs held in Thailand

The crime sparked huge protests across the country
Life in jail for Indian man convicted of doctor's rape and murder
MUMBAI — A court in India has sentenced a man to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests.The judge rejected demands for the death penalty but said that Sanjoy Roy, a hospital volunteer who was convicted over the weekend, would spend the rest of his life in jail.Roy has maintained he is innocent and is expected to appeal against the verdict in a higher court.The victim's family said they wanted him to be hanged, and that they were "shocked" by the sentence."We will continue our fight, and won't let investigations stop... Come what may, we will fight for justice," the woman's father told AFP news agency.Indian law prohibits revealing the identity of victims of sexual violence and that...
January 20, 2025

Life in jail for Indian man convicted of doctor's rape and murder

People placed flowers outside the stadium in Zhuhai after the attack
China executes man for car rampage that killed dozens
BEIJING — China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade.Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people exercising outside a stadium in the southern city of Zhuhai.State media said a second man was executed for a separate attack that came days later. Xu Jiajin, 21, killed eight people in a stabbing spree at his university in the eastern city of Wuxi.Authorities said Fan was driven by "dissatisfaction" over how his property had been divided following his divorce, while Xu carried out his attack after "failing to obtain his diploma due to poor exam results".Fan was detained at the scene on 11 November, where police said he...
January 20, 2025

China executes man for car rampage that killed dozens

Saif Ali Khan was attacked by an intruder at his home last week
Man arrested over stabbing of Bollywood actor
MUMBAI — Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have arrested a man in connection with a knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan last week.Khan, one of India's biggest stars, was stabbed by an intruder at his home, in an attack that shocked the country. He is recovering after surgery.On Sunday, police said they had arrested the key suspect, Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad, adding that he was a citizen of Bangladesh who was staying in India illegally.Shehzad's lawyer has denied the allegations and says he is not from Bangladesh.Police say they arrested Shehzad from Thane, a district in the outskirts of Mumbai.Preliminary evidence suggests that he came to the city about six months ago and had been working at a housekeeping agency using a fake name and ID, Dixit Gedam, a deputy...
January 20, 2025

Man arrested over stabbing of Bollywood actor

Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 25, 2023
Taliban deputy urges leader to lift education bans on Afghan women and girls
KABUL — A senior Taliban figure has called on the group’s leader to scrap education bans on women and girls in the country.In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai said there are no excuses for the bans, according to the Associated Press news agency.Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province.He told an audience at a religious school ceremony there was no reason to deny education to women and girls, “just as there was no justification for it in the past and there shouldn’t be one at all.”The government has barred females from education after sixth grade. Last September, there were reports authorities had also stopped medical training and courses for women.In Afghanistan,...
January 20, 2025

Taliban deputy urges leader to lift education bans on Afghan women and girls

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland
Norwegian Refugee Council chief says aid cuts biggest threat to Afghanistan's women
KABUL — Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country's women, the chief of a top aid agency has warned.Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of dwindling financial support for non-governmental groups and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.The NRC helped 772,484 Afghans in 2022 but by 2023, that number had fallen to 491,435.Last year, the aid agency helped 216,501 people and half of its beneficiaries are women."We see one after the other peer organization cutting programming and staff in the last two years. The biggest threat to programs helping Afghan women is funding cuts. The biggest threat to the future well-being of Afghan women is education,” said Egeland.The...
January 20, 2025

Norwegian Refugee Council chief says aid cuts biggest threat to Afghanistan's women

Imran Khan has faced more than 100 charges, all of which he decries as politically motivated
Imran Khan jailed for 14 years in corruption case
ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a corruption case, in the latest of a series of charges laid against him.It is the longest valid jail sentence the cricket star-turned-politician, who has been detained since August 2023, has received.He has faced charges in over 100 cases, ranging from leaking state secrets to selling state gifts — all of which he has decried as politically motivated.The latest case has been described by Pakistani authorities as the largest the country has seen, though the country has seen huge financial scandals in the past, some of which involved former leaders.Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were accused of receiving a parcel of land as a bribe from a real estate tycoon through the Al-Qadir Trust,...
January 17, 2025

Imran Khan jailed for 14 years in corruption case

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