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Iran tensions mount as students protest ahead of Mahsa Amini ceremony
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» PARIS - Iranian students protested Tuesday at multiple universities, defying a bloody crackdown as tensions mount on the eve of planned ceremonies marking 40 days since Mahsa Amini's death.
Uyghur group challenges Britain over 'slave labour' cotton
Reuters, Published on 25/10/2022
» LONDON: A Uyghur rights group told a London court on Tuesday that the British government has unlawfully failed to investigate the importation of cotton produced with "slave labour" in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
Russia rejects US basketballer's appeal of 'traumatic' sentence
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» KRASNOGORSK (RUSSIA) - A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from US basketball star Brittney Griner of her nine-year prison term on drug charges, ignoring her plea for the "traumatic" sentence to be reduced.
Battling the cold in the trenches of eastern Ukraine
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» DONETSK REGION (UKRAINE) - With "tactical socks", NATO standard sleeping bags and even a sauna, a unit of soldiers from Ukraine's 5th brigade is preparing for winter in a trench on the eastern front.
Mass funerals after Israeli raids on West Bank militants kill six
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» NABLUS (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Six Palestinians were killed in sweeping Israeli raids Tuesday in the occupied West Bank as the army targeted an emerging armed group, and thousands later massed for the funerals of the alleged gunmen.
Deputy district chief, drug enforcement volunteers surrender over bribe
Post Reporters, Published on 25/10/2022
» SONGKHLA: The deputy district chief of Rattaphum and five drug enforcement volunteers turned themselves in to police on Tuesday, after the Songkhla Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against them for asking for a bribe and dereliction of duty.
Children among 11 killed in fire at Uganda blind school
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» KAMPALA - Eleven people, mostly children, have perished in a blaze that tore through a dormitory at a school for the blind in Uganda in the early hours of Tuesday as pupils were sleeping.
Germany eyes reduced China stake in Hamburg port to end row
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» BERLIN - Germany's government is eyeing a compromise that would allow a Chinese firm to take a smaller-than-planned stake in a Hamburg container terminal, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected banning the sale outright.
Ethiopia peace talks open in South Africa
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» JOHANNESBURG - Peace talks between the warring sides in the brutal two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region opened in Pretoria on Tuesday, the South African presidency announced.
City Hall opposes junta's policy on Green Line
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 25/10/2022
» The City Hall opposes early Green Line concession extension for Bangkok Mass Transit System plc (BTSC) and proposes the government pay for its extension routes or take over the entire system.