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A demountable building on the Russian embassy work site in Canberra.
Russian diplomat squats near Australian parliament in embassy lease row
CANBERRA — A Russian diplomat has been squatting near Australia's parliament in a row over the site where Russia wants to build its new embassy.The lone protest follows Australia's decision last week to tear up the lease — granted in 2008 — citing national security grounds.Russia says it will challenge the move in the High Court.Australia's prime minister says the diplomat was no threat — he was "some bloke standing... on a bit of grass".When announcing new laws aimed at terminating the lease, Anthony Albanese said intelligence agencies had given "very clear security advice".The planned embassy would sit only 400m (0.25 miles) from parliament, which experts have said poses a spying risk.Russia's existing embassy is some distance away.Kremlin...
June 23, 2023

Russian diplomat squats near Australian parliament in embassy lease row

Armed men guard their village, some 27km from the Manipur state capital Imphal
Manipur: Fears grow over Indian state on brink of civil war
IMPHAL — Last week, a retired lieutenant general in India's army bemoaned the volatile situation in his native Manipur, a violence-wracked state in the north-east of the country."The state is now 'stateless'," tweeted L Nishikanta Singh. "Life and property can be destroyed anytime by anyone just like in Libya, Lebanon, Nigeria, Syria etc."Nearly two months after it was convulsed by ethnic violence, Manipur is teetering on what many believe is the brink of a civil war. Clashes between the majority Meitei and Kuki communities have left more than 100 dead and over 400 wounded.Nearly 60,000 people have been displaced and taken shelter in some 350 camps. Some 40,000 security forces -- army soldiers, paramilitaries, police -- are struggling to quell the...
June 22, 2023

Manipur: Fears grow over Indian state on brink of civil war

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Australia threatens to fine Twitter over online hate
SYDNEY — Australia's cyber watchdog has called on Twitter, which is owned by multi-billionaire Elon Musk, to explain its handling of online hate.The country's online safety commissioner says Twitter has become the most complained about platform.Twitter has 28 days to respond to the regulator or face potential fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars.Musk bought the firm last year for $44bn (A$64bn; £34.5bn) and promised to protect free speech on the platform.A legal notice was sent to Twitter demanding an explanation after one-third of all complaints received about online hate concerned the platform, Julie Inman Grant said.That is even though Twitter has far fewer users than TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.The company has been told to respond to the watchdog within 28 days or...
June 22, 2023

Australia threatens to fine Twitter over online hate

Black smoke billows from the burning Fuyang Barbecue Restaurant
Gas explosion at China restaurant kills 31
SINGAPORE — Nine people have been detained over an explosion at a barbecue restaurant in north-west China which has killed at least 31 people.A gas leak is suspected to have caused the explosion in Yinchuan city on Wednesday night local time.Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for "all-out efforts" in the rescue operation and a probe into the blast.The owner of the Fuyang Barbecue Restaurant was among those in custody, state media reported.The explosion occurred on the eve of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday in China, a time when many families and friends gather for celebratory meals.Several high school students and retirees were among the dead, local media reported.The death toll is expected to rise with at least seven people injured, one of whom is in a critical...
June 22, 2023

Gas explosion at China restaurant kills 31

A group of women and their children walk Daikundi in remote central Afghanistan. — courtesy UNICEF/Mark Naftalin
Taliban told, bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad
NEW YORK — The multiple restrictions placed on women and girls by Afghanistan’s de facto rulers are costing the Taliban “both domestic and international legitimacy” and are highly unpopular across the country, said the top UN official based there on Wednesday.UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working.“We will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them not to report to the office” she said, adding that the UN Assistance Mission she also heads, UNAMA, has no intention of replacing them with male staff.She said the Taliban had given her no explanation for the ban,...
June 21, 2023

Taliban told, bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad

Family members sit for DNA sampling at a hospital in Khuiratta in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on June 20.
Grief shrouds remote Pakistan mountain village after Greece migrant boat tragedy
BANDALI, Pakistan-administered Kashmir — An air of melancholy engulfs the small village of Bandali in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where hopes are fading fast for nearly two dozen residents who went abroad in search of a better life and have since disappeared.Families fight back tears as they yearn to hear what may have happened to their loved ones – all migrants aboard the Adriana, an overcrowded fishing trawler that capsized off the coast of Greece last week, killing at least 81 people and leaving hundreds more missing.In Pakistan, authorities said more than 300 of its nationals died in the tragedy, but did not specify how they received the information. The Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan in a statement Tuesday said that 88 people have officially been registered as missing...
June 21, 2023

Grief shrouds remote Pakistan mountain village after Greece migrant boat tragedy

The super-app offers services in countries including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
Grab: Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing firm cuts 1,000 jobs
SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing and food delivery app, Grab, says it is cutting 1,000 jobs -- amounting to 11% of its workforce.The company's boss said the cuts were needed to bring down costs and ensure affordable services in the long term.The Singapore-based firm offers deliveries, rides and financial services in eight Southeast Asian countries.In 2018, Grab took over the operations of US-based rival Uber in the region.In an email to employees, chief executive Anthony Tan said the cuts, which are the biggest since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, were not "a shortcut to profitability."He also highlighted the impact of new technology and rising borrowing costs: "Change has never been this fast. Technology such as generative AI [artificial...
June 21, 2023

Grab: Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing firm cuts 1,000 jobs

The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 K-2 in southern Pakistan seen in 2021. The facility was also built with Chinese assistance
China and Pakistan sign $4.8 bln nuclear power plant deal
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and China signed a $4.8 billion deal on Tuesday to build a 1,200-megawatt nuclear power plant, Reuters reported quoting local media.Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hailed the investment by China, a country that Pakistan views as its most dependable ally.Work on the Chashma 5 project would begin immediately, Sharif said on state-run news channel PTV following the signing of the memorandum of understanding between China National Nuclear Cooperation and Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.“Investment from China in this project to the tune of $4.8 billion sends a message loud and clear that Pakistan is a place where Chinese companies and investors continue to show their trust and faith,” Sharif said.The Chashma 5 project will be built in the central province of Punjab....
June 21, 2023

China and Pakistan sign $4.8 bln nuclear power plant deal

The families of those who have been forcibly sterilized demand compensation
Japan sterilization law victims included nine-year-olds
TOKYO — Two nine-year-olds were among the 25,000 people forcibly sterilized in Japan under its post-World War Two eugenics law, a parliament report has revealed.The law, in place for 48 years, forced people to undergo operations to prevent them having children deemed "inferior".Many of them had physical or cognitive disabilities or mental illness.The law is widely recognized as a dark chapter in Japan's post-war recovery and was repealed in 1996.On Monday, parliament released a long-awaited 1,400-page study, based on a government investigation that began in June 2020.It acknowledged that about 25,000 people had been subjected to operations — more than 16,000 of which were performed without consent.Some people were told that they were undergoing routine procedures like...
June 20, 2023

Japan sterilization law victims included nine-year-olds

Police cordoned off a number of restaurants after the attacks
Four injured in ax attacks at Chinese restaurants in New Zealand
AUCKLAND — Four people have been injured after a man allegedly attacked diners with an ax at several Chinese restaurants in Auckland, New Zealand.Footage showed people running from one restaurant after witnesses said the man entered and started hitting people at 21:00 local time Monday (09:00 GMT.)They told local media he was carrying a number of other weapons, including a "hammer-like thing".A Chinese national was arrested at the scene, police said.He has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm. He has not been named and his age has been withheld.Police said the attack did not appear to be racially motivated and was being treated as an isolated incident.Three people remain in hospital in stable condition, they said.Police rushed to the scene after receiving calls from...
June 20, 2023

Four injured in ax attacks at Chinese restaurants in New Zealand

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