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In a television programme aired on May 28, 2022, the Iranian military unveiled a drone base located hundreds of metres under the Zagros mountain range. The base reportedly hosts 100 drones. Two new cruise missiles were also showcased; the Heidar-1 can be fired from a drone while the Heidar-2 can be launched from a h…
India’s Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision on May 27, 2022, recognising prostitution as a legal profession. In its ruling, the country’s top court ordered police to refrain from arresting and harassing sex workers. It’s the latest move by the Indian Supreme Court to wade in on constitutional issues that h…
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A YouTuber from Thailand has built an entire city model from pieces of paper. Darunbhop Puangsombat, a model fanatic, spent almost a year to complete the model city, including a moving monorail, police stations and apartment blocks. He has also recreated a Star Wars spaceship called “Star Destroyer” that someone has…
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has given an ultimatum to the government. Khan broke up a protest march held by his supporters on May 26, 2022, and warned that he would march again to the capital if elections were not announced within six days. Police have tried to stop the protesters, but clashes have sp…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited soldiers who were wounded during fighting in Ukraine. The May 25, 2022, appearance was the first time Putin is known to have visited wounded troops since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Dressed in white medical coat, Putin spoke with soldiers at Moscow’s Mand…
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Students in India's northern city of Amritsar held a candlelight vigil on May 25, 2022, in remembrance of the 19 children and two teachers killed by a teenage gunman who stormed into a Texas elementary school. The students in India chanted prayers for the victims while holding placards and candles. The gunman murder…
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Ninety-year-old retired Catholic cardinal Joseph Zen appeared in a Hong Kong court on May 24, 2022, charged with failing to properly register a protest defence fund. This, after he was initially arrested under the city's national security law. Zen, one of Asia's highest-ranking Catholic clerics, was among five promi…
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Peruvian police have caught a pigeon smuggling more than 30 grams (1.05 ounces) of marijuana into the Huancayo prison. The “narco pigeon” was found with a bag tied around its neck while drinking from a puddle on the prison grounds. Peru’s Public Ministry has been notified and is set to investigate the origin of the …
Accused of opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in southern California, David Chou, 68, has been charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of destructive devices, and may also face hate crime charges. Chou, who is being held without bail and may face the death penalty, had wanted to “execute in…
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The doctor who died in the Laguna Woods church shooting in California on May 15, 2022, has been hailed as a hero. Dr John Cheng died from a gunshot wound after he tackled the shooter to the ground. According to Orange County sheriff Donald Barnes, his action saved dozens of lives. The suspect, David Chou, is a Chine…
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said on May 17, 2022, that he would not rule out seeking the death penalty against David Chou, who has been charged with murder and attempted murder. Chou, 68, is accused of opening fire at a southern California church on May 15, an attack that killed one and wounded five…
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The gunman of a deadly attack at a California church on May 15, 2022, was an immigrant from mainland China motivated by hatred for Taiwanese people, police said.
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Sri Lankan security forces have been ordered to open fire on protesters caught breaking the law in a bid to quell anti-government rallies. Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island nation’s worst economic crisis in history. A countrywide curfew has been imposed and…
Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera, was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank on May 11, 2022. Her Palestinian producer, Ali al-Samoudi, was shot in the back and is in stable condition in hospital. Both were wearing press vests.
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A 10-day manhunt for an escaped Alabama prisoner and the guard accused of helping him ended on May 9, 2022, after a police chase ended in a car crash. Casey White, a murder suspect, surrendered after the wreck, and ex-prison guard Vicky White reportedly shot herself. Acting on a tip, police found the duo, who were n…
Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as Sri Lanka’s prime minister on May 9, 2022, hours after deadly clashes broke out. His supporters, some armed with iron bars, had attacked anti-government protesters in Colombo. At least three people were reportedly killed, including a ruling party legislator, and more than 150 were hospi…
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Former Hong Kong police official and chief secretary John Lee Ka-chiu was officially elected to become the city’s next chief executive on May 8, 2022. As a secondary school student at Wah Yan College (Kowloon) in the 1970s, Hong Kong’s incoming leader was described as a “responsible” and “conscientious” student. In …
Former political prisoner Cristina Bawagan still has the dress she wore the day she was arrested, tortured and sexually abused by soldiers during the late Philippines' dictator Ferdinand Marcos' brutal era of martial law. Bawagan fears the horrors of Marcos' rule will be lost in history if his son wins the president…
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A 77-year-old Norwegian man, Herman Aschjem, was arrested for allegedly stabbing a neighbour and a relative with a kitchen knife in central Thailand. He was reportedly intoxicated with alcohol when he barged into his cousin’s home in Mueang district, Chaiyaphum province, on May 3, 2022. The foreigner attacked his co…
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A 34-year-old Thai man, Watchara Khambut, was arrested after riding a motorcycle into a restricted airport zone in Bangkok on May 3, 2022. He swung an axe at ground staff on the tarmac and was then chased until he reached a closed terminal door. He destroyed the glass door before security guards tackled him to the g…
Police have arrested nine people suspected of covering up the shoddy construction and unsafe conditions of a six-storey building that collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha, in central China. At least 39 people were missing, most of them students of the nearby Changsha Medical University, after the mixed-use buil…
A mother of 2 volunteered to carry out a suicide bombing attack, which killed 3 Chinese nationals in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 26, 2022. The assailant, Shari Baloch, held graduate degrees in zoology and education. She had volunteered on behalf of a separatist group called the Baloch Liberation Army, which claimed …
Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang Kong was found dead on April 27, 2022, in a Tsim Sha Tsui hotel-quarantine room after returning from Singapore. He was staying in the room on his own. The 87-year-old actor had appeared in more than 220 films after obtaining a degree in architecture at the University of Californ…
The courthouse lobby echoed like a crowded school cafeteria. Teenagers in sweatshirts and sneakers gossiped and scrolled on their phones as they clutched the yellow tickets that police had issued them at school.
Three Chinese nationals and a Pakistani citizen were killed in the port city of Karachi when the van they were in exploded on April 26, 2022.The Chinese victims, two men and a woman, taught at the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese cultural and language programme supported by Beijing. The Balock …
