Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea’s border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the nuclear-armed North that is driving residents to despair.Before it started, 56-year-old Kim Yun-suk fell asleep to the hum of insects and woke to the chirping of birds. Now, she is kept awake …
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Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai insisted his newspaper had championed democracy and “freedom” as he took the witness stand Wednesday for the first time in his trial for collusion with foreign forces.Lai’s case is one of the most prominent prosecuted under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, with Western countries …
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is due to appear before a military court on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after his reported abduction in neighbouring Kenya.”The latest information we have is Besigye is in military cells in Kampala and the army is planning to produce him in the General Court Martial today,” one of Besigye’s …
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is being held in a military jail after being “kidnapped” in Kenya, according to his wife, a top UN official.Winnie Byanyima, head of UNAIDS, demanded on X in a post early Wednesday that the government of Uganda “release my husband Dr. Kizza Besigye from where he is being held …
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The black and white silent movie flickered into life as the pianist started up with a dramatic flourish. Cue the latest exploits of daring master criminal “Three-Fingered Kate”.The head of a gang behind a string of audacious robberies, Kate — who is missing the last two digits of her right hand — always manages to …
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Japanese people are the least satisfied with their sex and romantic lives, closely followed by South Koreans, a global survey by a French research firm showed. The two Asian rivals are grappling with a similar demographic crisis with their chronically — and dangerously, as authorities warn — low birth rates.The poll of 31 countries, conducted by …
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Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, with over 1,000 people killed or wounded in the country.Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions.But the military’s …
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Russia warned on Tuesday that it would respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time, as President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat on the 1,000th day of the war.A senior official told AFP that a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region earlier on Tuesday “was carried out by ATACMS …
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Peruvian authorities said Tuesday they have tightened security at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after tourists there were filmed dispersing what were believed to be human ashes.Last week, citizens in Peru were outraged by a non-dated video on Tiktok in which a woman at the tourist site took ashes from a plastic bag and …
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Pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai said Wednesday that his now-shuttered newspaper represented Hong Kong’s “core values” as he took the witness stand for the first time in his collusion trial.Lai’s case is one of the most prominent prosecuted under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, with Western countries and rights groups demanding his …
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