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Hong Kong's new smoking rules just kicked in. Is everyone sticking to them?
South China Morning Post, Published on 02/01/2026
» Some smokers are still lighting up at bus stops in Hong Kong despite new rules banning them from doing so while queuing, the South China Morning Post has observed, with authorities saying they have stepped up inspections at tourist spots and ramped up promotion efforts.
Gaza mediators 'working very hard' to revive truce plan: Egypt
AFP, Published on 12/08/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Egypt said Tuesday it was working with fellow Gaza mediators Qatar and the United States to broker a 60-day truce, as part of a renewed push to end the Israel-Hamas war.
Gazans mourn journalists killed by Israel
AFP, Published on 11/08/2025
» GAZA CITY - Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, with Israel calling one of them a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas.
Syria to help locate missing Americans: US envoy
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» DAMASCUS - Syria's new authorities have agreed to help the United States locate and return Americans who went missing in the war-ravaged country, a US envoy said on Sunday, in another sign of thawing bilateral ties.
AP to continue crediting 'Napalm Girl' photo to Nick Ut after probe
AFP, Published on 07/05/2025
» NEW YORK - The Associated Press news agency will continue to credit one of its most distinctive photos, "Napalm Girl" taken during the Vietnam War, to photographer Nick Ut despite questions about who took it, the wire said Tuesday.
Years later, Philippines reckons with Duterte’s brutal drug war
The New York TImes, Published on 30/06/2024
» MANILA, Philippines — When Rodrigo Duterte was running for president eight years ago, he vowed to order the police and the military to find drug users and traffickers to kill them, promising immunity for such killings. In the months after, police officers and vigilantes mercilessly gunned down tens of thousands of people in summary executions.
Death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza passes 25,000: health officials
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2024
» DOHA/GAZA: The toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct 7 has passed 25,000, health officials in the enclave said on Sunday, amid heavy Israeli strikes and street battles raging across the Hamas-run Strip.
Israel presses on with Gaza offensive
Reuters, Published on 13/01/2024
» GAZA - Israel kept up bombardments in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as its deadly war on the enclave’s Hamas rulers approached 100 days with no end in sight.
'They're afraid of joy': Pakistan's trans community fights hate
AFP, Published on 10/10/2023
» KARACHI - Clad in a Barbie-pink shalwar kameez, influencer and doctor Mehrub Moiz Awan reels off endless examples of harassment she's received since becoming the sharp-tongued figurehead of Pakistan's queer community.
Vietnam battles plastic blight in idyllic Ha Long Bay
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» HA LONG (VIETNAM) - Squinting in the bright light of a hot summer morning, Vu Thi Thinh perches on the edge of her small wooden boat and plucks a polystyrene block from the calm waters of Vietnam's Ha Long Bay.