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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 …
Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a candlelight vigil on April 25, 2022, to protest the death penalty for a Malaysian man named Nagaenthran Dharmalingam. He was arrested in 2009 for trafficking 43 grams (1.5 ounces) of heroin into Singapore. His execution date is set for April 27. Protestors said he should be spared b…
Shanghai resident Kumi Wu was already recovering from a sore throat when she received the order to quarantine at a makeshift Covid-19 hospital in Shanghai’s Pudong district. The 26-year-old began recording her experience entering a system stretched thin by the city’s ongoing lockdowns amid its worst coronavirus outb…
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A mother and her daughter tore a basketball court floor mat apart in order to force the players to leave because the noise was disturbing the girl’s studies in southern China’s Jiangsu province.
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At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on April 22, 2022. Tensions have been heightened in part by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coinciding with the Jewish celebration of Passover, which brings more Muslim and Jewish visitors to the compoun…
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Sri Lanka’s protests turned fatal for the first time since they began in March 2022, after police fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests in the central town of Rambukkana. At least one person was killed and a dozen others were injured. Protests continued across the country, as demonstrators voiced a…
A series of blasts near a high school and nearby education centre in western Kabul have killed at least six people including some teenage students. Many living in the neighbourhood where the April 19, 2022, explosions happened belong to the Shia Hazara community, an ethnic and religious minority frequently targeted …
Riot police were deployed in New Delhi after clashes between Hindus and Muslims during a religious procession in the Indian capital on April 16, 2022. The violence occurred as Hindu devotees passed by a mosque in Jahangirpuri, a neighbourhood that is home to a large Bengali-speaking Muslim population. Local authorit…
Michelin-starred chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn is adding an affordable Thailand-made delicacy to the menu at his high-end Bangkok restaurant. The black caviar, mostly associated with sub-Arctic nations, is breaking into the Thai fine-dining scene, thanks to an innovative farm outside the capital. The Thai Sturgeon…
Residents of the Zhangjiang Nashi International housing complex in Shanghai were notified on April 14, 2022, that their blocks of flats would be taken over and used as a quarantine isolation site for Covid-19 patients. But after being told that they would have to clear out of their apartments, some angry residents p…
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Myanmar’s army and pro-military militias have been burning villages in the central part of the country almost every day since early 2022, according to reports from the BBC and local media. The junta has been accused of crushing dissent by razing villages since it overthrew the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi…
Shanghai authorities have backed away from their plan to relax lockdown measures in the city as daily Covid-19 infections remain high. China’s biggest commercial city added 27,719 new coronavirus cases according to data released on April 14, 2022, bringing the city’s total infections to 280,000 since March 1. Reside…
A hospital train rolled away from the eastern front lines of Ukraine’s war with invading Russian forces on April 10, 2022, ferrying wounded people to relative safety in the western city of Lviv. Among the 48 wounded and elderly patients on board was electrician Evhen Perepelytsai, who lost a leg during shelling of h…
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Frank R. James, suspected of shooting 10 people in a New York subway car, was arrested on April 13, 2022. Police located the 62-year-old in Manhattan’s East Village. The manhunt ended a day after the attack on a crowded rush-hour train in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighbourhood, which left at least 23 people injured.
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At least one man fell to his death while being lifted by Indian Air Force helicopters after a cable car collision in the city of Deoghar on April 10, 2022. The collision killed another person instantly and left 48 others dangling in the air. Some of those on board were forced to wait two days before being rescued. J…
At least 10 people were shot and six others were injured on April 12, 2022, during the morning rush at a New York subway station in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighbourhood. Passengers were seen pouring from a train car enveloped in smoke. Police say they are seeking a male suspect who wore a gas mask and a construction…
Tens of thousands of former prime minister Imran Khan’s supporters protested across Pakistan after he was ousted by a no-confidence vote. Parliament elected opposition lawmaker Shehbaz Sharif as the new leader on April 11, 2022.The appointment prompted more than 100 lawmakers from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pa…
Indonesian police fired tear gas and a water cannon on April 11, 2022 to disperse hundreds of university students protesting high cooking oil prices and the rumoured extension of President Joko Widodo's stay in office. After influential politicians had publicly backed the idea, Widodo instructed his government to st…
A veteran Hong Kong journalist and consultant for the journalism school at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Allan Au Ka-lun, has been arrested by the city’s national security police. The arrest early morning on April 11, 2022, was over allegations of sedition according to a police source. Au had worked at local …
Six weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv on April 9, 2022, a day after vowing to send British armoured vehicles and anti-ship missiles to Ukraine. Johnson’s visit to the Ukrainian capital included a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, and t…
Ketanji Brown Jackson made history on April 8, 2022, as the US Senate confirmed her as the first black woman to become a Supreme Court justice. It was a milestone for the United States and a victory for President Joe Biden, who made good on a campaign promise to diversify the federal judiciary.
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Pope Francis kissed a Ukrainian flag from the Ukrainian city of Bucha at the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, on April 6, 2022. He welcomed refugee children from Ukraine up to the stage at the end of his weekly audience, calling for an end to the war. On April 3, hundreds of civilian deaths were reported in Buch…
A boxer and ex-convict from East London faces life in prison in the Philippines on accusations that he was the head of a gang that waged a “reign of terror” that included kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking, over a Makati red-light district. Darren Wall was arrested on March 23, 2022, alongside his wife, 23-y…
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Hundreds of civilian deaths were reported in Bucha on April 3, 2022, amid a grim reckoning that has followed the withdrawal of Russian troops from the city on the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got a first-hand look at the devastation on April 4 when he visited and spoke …
The Pakistani parliamentary assembly was dissolved on April 3, 2022, by order of Prime Minister Imran Khan, triggering an election within 90 days. A no-confidence vote had been scheduled on April 3. The opposition claimed it had the simple majority of 172 votes out of 342 to unseat Khan. The no-confidence motion was…
Police have lifted an overnight curfew imposed in several parts of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo after violent protests broke out over the government’s handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. On March 31, 2022, police fired tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of protesters gathered at President …
Colombian authorities have seized 143 tarantulas that were allegedly being smuggled through Bogota’s international airport. The insects were placed in plastic bags and concealed inside a chess set being shipped to Mexico City, police said on March 31, 2022. At least 12 of the 143 tarantulas died because of inadequat…
UK Supreme Court president Lord Robert Reed and vice-president Lord Patrick Hodge resigned from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal on March 30, 2022, with immediate effect. A statement issued by Britain’s top judicial body cited concerns over national security legislation imposed on Hong Kong by mainland Chinese auth…
An injured Ukrainian boy cried and repeatedly asked to see his father, who was also injured and being treated in another part of a hospital in Zaporizhzhia on March 30, 2022. They were hurt amid fighting in the besieged coastal city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, some 200km (124 miles) from the hospital. Mariu…
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Huawei Chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has appeared at a press conference for the telecommunication giant's annual report, her first public appearance since returning to China after being detained in Canada. The daughter of company founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei, Meng was detained in Canada on a fraud…
It has been one month since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Russia's military continues to face fierce resistance from Ukraine, which has denied Moscow a lightning victory. Nato estimates that between 7,000-15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine as of March 23. On March 2, Russia acknowledg…
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Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court on March 22, 2022. He was already serving a 2.5 year sentence at a prison in eastern Moscow for parole violations. The Kremlin critic, who has been detained since January…
