ankara [Turkey]February 7 (ANI): Nearly 4,900 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, according to officials, reported CNN. Turkey’s death toll rose to at least 3,381 as of around 9:45 am local time on Tuesday, Orhan Tatar, an official with the country’s … Read more
Canberra [Australia]January 26 (ANI): The Indian High Commission in Canberra on Thursday condemned the “deeply disturbing” incidents of vandalization of three Hindu temples in Melbourne, and asked the Australian Government to ensure the safety and security of members of the Indian community and their properties in your country. Last week, ISKCON’s Hare Krishna Temple was … Read more
The Russian army has been accused of forcibly mobilizing Ukrainian citizens living in temporarily occupied regions to fight alongside Moscow’s troops, according to a report. Speaking at a briefing at Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform, Olha Skrypnyk, Chairperson of the Board at the Crimean Human Rights Group, said men in the regions of Donetsk and … Read more
India is on track to overtake China this year as the world’s most populous country after China’s death rate eclipsed the birth rate for the first time. India’s chances of leapfrogging China in terms of population shot up after the Chinese government announced that the country’s population declined for the first time in sixty years. … Read more
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — Cambodia’s trade with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries reached 31 billion US dollars in 2022, up 4 percent from a year earlier, according to a Ministry of Commerce report released on Tuesday. The report said the kingdom’s export to the RCEP countries amounted to 6.34 billion … Read more
A woodcutter who built his own Hobbit House revealed he has never watched Lord of the Rings – and lives almost off-grid despite being nearly 90. Great-grandad Stuart Grant, 89, moved into the cottage he bought as a wreck with no roof and no doors in 1984, while he was renovating a house. But he … Read more
Russia is mobilizing residents of occupied parts of Ukraine to replenish losses in its invasion, the Ukrainian military claimed. A new wave of mobilization was reported since Monday in the city of Alchevsk in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk province, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Thursday situation report. “To replenish … Read more
melbourne [Australia]January 9 (ANI): Australia’s oldest Test cricketer and a trailblazer of the women’s game, Norma Whiteman, has passed away aged 86. A middle-order batter and medium-pace bowler, Whiteman (also known as Norma Johnston) represented Australia in seven Tests from 1948 to 1951. Until her passing, Whiteman was the oldest Australian Test cricketer alive. “Australian … Read more
The Chinese government is lifting key parts of its coronavirus-related border restrictions starting this Sunday, three years after COVID-19 was first detected in China. The easing of entry restrictions was seen as China’s pivot away from the controversial zero-COVID policy, which caused nationwide uproar and dampened the country’s economic activities in the past few years. … Read more
Within a decade, Australia’s population is expected to be smaller and older than what was predicted before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for Population’s 2022 Population Statement reveals the pandemic has had a substantial impact on the country’s population, which has mostly been caused by a limit to overseas migration from border closures. That statement … Read more