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Category: 3. World

  • Kabul’s water crisis: How unsustainable foreign aid projects made it worse

    Kabul’s water crisis: How unsustainable foreign aid projects made it worse


    Dhaka/Phnom Penh: Across Asia, unions and industry groups are raising alarms over the impact of higher tariffs by the United States on garment workers.


    High tariffs might force companies to shut down or move to neighboring countries that offer lower tariff rates, resulting in a loss of jobs, they say.


    “The potential loss of jobs will cut the income and ability for workers to sustain their daily lives,” said Ath Thorn, vice president of the Coalition of…

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  • India marks inclusion of 12 Maratha forts on UNESCO World Heritage List

    India marks inclusion of 12 Maratha forts on UNESCO World Heritage List

    NEW DELHI: India’s Maratha Military Landscapes — a network of 12 strategic forts — have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the country’s 44th site to receive the designation.

    The forts were used by the rulers of the Maratha Empire, who held power across parts of central, western and southern India between the late 17th century and the early 19th century.

    Marathas rose to prominence after the decline of the Mughal Empire, following the death of Emperor…

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  • New Gaza-bound aid boat leaves Italy

    New Gaza-bound aid boat leaves Italy

    SYRACUSE, Italy: A Gaza-bound boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid left Sicily on Sunday, over a month after Israel detained and deported people aboard a previous vessel.

    The Handala, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left the port of Syracuse shortly after 12:00 p.m. (1000 GMT), an AFP journalist saw, carrying about fifteen activists.

    Several dozen people, some holding Palestinian flags and others wearing keffiyeh scarves, gathered at the port to cheer…

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  • Malaysia ex-PM Mahathir, 100, discharged from hospital

    Malaysia ex-PM Mahathir, 100, discharged from hospital

    KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been discharged from hospital, his office said on Sunday, after being admitted for fatigue following a picnic celebration for his 100th birthday.

    Mahathir, leader of the Southeast Asian nation for more than two decades, has a history of heart problems and has undergone bypass surgeries. He has been hospitalized repeatedly in recent years, most recently in October for a respiratory infection.

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  • Several hurt in anti-migrant unrest in Spanish town

    Several hurt in anti-migrant unrest in Spanish town

    MADRID: Several people were hurt in a second night of anti-migrant unrest in the Spanish town of Torre Pacheco after a pensioner was beaten up, authorities said on Sunday.
    Despite a major police presence, groups armed with batons roamed the streets looking for foreign-origin people, regional newspaper La Opinion de Murcia reported.
    The regional government did not say how many people were injured but stated that at least one person had been arrested for the violence.

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  • US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations under 18th-century law

    US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations under 18th-century law


    NEW YORK: New York University said it would deny a diploma to a student who used a graduation speech to condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and what he described as US “complicity in this genocide.”

    Logan Rozos’s speech Wednesday for graduating students of NYU’s Gallatin School sparked waves of condemnation from pro-Israel groups, who demanded the university take aggressive disciplinary action against him.

    In a statement, NYU spokesperson John…

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  • World’s biggest poultry exporter Brazil confirms bird flu outbreak

    World’s biggest poultry exporter Brazil confirms bird flu outbreak

    SAO PAULO: Brazil, the world’s largest poultry exporter, confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a commercial farm on Friday, triggering a ban on shipments to China and raising the prospect of restrictions from other trade partners.

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  • Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’

    Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’

    Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said an “unauthorized modification” to its chatbot Grok was the reason why it kept talking about South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” on social media this week.
    An employee at xAI made a change that “directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic,” which “violated xAI’s internal policies and core values,” the company said in an explanation posted late Thursday that promised reforms.

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  • Moody’s strips US government of top credit rating, citing Washington’s failure to rein in debt

    Moody’s strips US government of top credit rating, citing Washington’s failure to rein in debt

    WASHINGTON: Moody’s Ratings stripped the US government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt.
    Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1 but said the United States “retains exceptional credit strengths such as the size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and the role of the US dollar as global reserve currency.”

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  • UK faith leaders urge PM to tone down migration rhetoric

    UK faith leaders urge PM to tone down migration rhetoric

    Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished


    DIKWA, Nigeria: Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

    “Feeding is severely difficult,” said…

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