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The UK’s National Crime Agency has uncovered a money laundering system so extensive it connects British drug dealers to sanctioned Russian oligarchs, exposing yet another layer of the scandal surrounding Wirecard fugitive
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In the United Nations’ Humanitarian Situation Update #340 on the Gaza Strip (12 November 2025), there is a section on the distress experienced by more than 1 million Palestinian children in Gaza. The most
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The Miss Universe competition has been thrown into turmoil just days before the final in Bangkok, as a number of judges withdrew amid allegations of secret committees, rigged voting, and personal conflicts
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On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. For the first time, the report directly evaluates their multidimensional poverty data against climate
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China is launching an array of financial incentives—including wedding subsidies, child-rearing benefits and home-purchase grants—in an escalating attempt to reverse the country’s steep population decline, according to Times UK. The dramatic policy
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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has warned that extreme heat is reshaping the “riskscape” across Asia and the Pacific, with 2024 recorded as the
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Bangladesh now stands at the precipice of a judicial disgrace. Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has denounced the so-called International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) as a politically choreographed “hatchet job,” and the evidence
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A chilling sense of déjà vu has returned to the village of Nithari after India’s Supreme Court overturned the final conviction of Surinder Koli, the domestic aide once at the center of
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More than one-fifth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s population — nearly 25 million people — are experiencing severe acute food insecurity, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. UN spokesperson Stéphane
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In early November, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the ‘horrifying crisis in Sudan, which is spiralling out of control’. He urged the warring parties to ‘bring an end to this nightmare of
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Bangladesh is on edge as the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prepares to announce today, on Thursday, November 13, the date of its verdict in the case
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Every time a woman stands tall, she lifts not only herself but the world around her. Across Pakistan, a powerful transformation is taking place—driven by women who are defying expectations, climbing new
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Scientists have uncovered the first member of a promising new class of antibiotics, and the discovery came as a surprise. The compound, called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, demonstrates strong activity against drug-resistant bacteria,
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Editor’s Note: This column is based on excerpts from a speech by Chase Hughes, a behavioral science expert, author, and former U.S. Navy officer. Hughes has spent over two decades studying human
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Summary: In “The Happiness Trap,” Martina Moneke challenges society’s obsession with happiness, showing how its pursuit often isolates, disappoints, and destabilizes the self. She contrasts fleeting, reactive happiness with steadier contentment, rooted
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