Russia launched one of its largest overnight assaults of the war late Friday, sending nearly 600 drones and dozens of missiles across Ukraine, killing at least three people, injuring many more, and plunging large swaths of Kyiv into darkness, according to Euro News. Ukrainian authorities said the attack involved 596 drones alongside 36 missiles of […]
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The death toll in Gaza has climbed beyond 70,000, according to figures released Saturday by the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, marking one of the deadliest stretches of the conflict as a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire struggles to hold, according to NDTV. In its latest tally, the ministry reported 70,100 fatalities since the Israel–Hamas war […]
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Finland is undertaking a significant overhaul of its diplomatic network, announcing plans to shutter its embassies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar by 2026 as part of a sweeping strategic realignment led by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The reform, described as one of the most extensive in recent years, comes amid a broader reassessment of […]
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Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Thursday that its ceasefire understanding with Afghanistan has effectively broken down, citing a surge in cross-border terrorist attacks involving Afghan nationals and groups operating from Afghan soil, according to “The Nation News”. Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi told reporters in Islamabad that the arrangement was never a conventional ceasefire between two […]
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Thousands of Airbus planes are being returned to normal service after being grounded for hours due to a warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers. The aerospace giant – based in France – said around 6,000 of its A320 planes had been affected with most requiring a quick software update. Some […]
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Austria was rattled this week after a violent knife attack in Vienna’s Donaustadt district, where a 50-year-old Afghan man allegedly stabbed his own daughter in what investigators describe as an “honor based” assault, according to “Heute”. The attack, which occurred Monday evening, sparked national outrage and renewed debate over deportation policies. According to police, the […]
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New constitutional changes create a powerful Federal Constitution Court, sideline senior judges, and centralize authority raising fears of an emerging authoritarian legal order. Pakistan’s newly enacted 26th and 27th Constitutional Amendments have triggered a storm of concern at home and abroad, with jurists, lawyers, and rights advocates warning that the changes strike at the very […]
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The United Nations is warning that Myanmar’s late-December elections, the first since the country’s 2021 military coup, risk cementing repression and fueling deeper instability across a nation already fractured by conflict, mass displacement, and political fear, according to APP. Speaking in Geneva, Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR), said voting set […]
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Friday that Pakistan’s hastily adopted constitutional amendments seriously undermine judicial independence and raise grave concerns about military accountability and respect for the rule of law. In a statement issued in Geneva, the human rights chief said the latest constitutional amendment, like the 26th amendment last […]
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In a dramatic shift late Thursday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced on social media that the United States will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” a sweeping move he says is needed to allow the American system to “fully recover, according to Al Jazeera News.” The declaration came in the immediate aftermath […]
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