July 16, 2022 | 22.00 hrs A United Nations report released on Monday predicted that India would overtake China as the world’s most populated nation in 2023, with each nation having more than 1.4 billion people as of this year. The report also warned that increasing fertility would pose a threat to economic growth. According […]
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July 13, 2022 | 07.15am When Vladimir Putin refocused his war in Ukraine on the country’s east three months ago, he did so bruised by the failures of his initial lunge towards Kyiv and desperate for a face-saving success. The Russian President can consider himself halfway there after a drawn-out and brutal march through Luhansk
Jakarta | Thu, June 9, 2022 In their first meeting since Anthony Albanese was elected prime minister of Australia last month, the two got along well. Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is the president of Indonesia. On Monday, before getting down to business, the two leaders removed their ties and coats and cycled around the verdant grounds
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Monday | May 30, 2022 During a trip to the Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky visited “front line positions” of the Ukrainian military and talked with soldiers, according to his office. “I want to thank each of you for your service; you put your life on the line for all of us and our
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Karla Cripps | 27th April 2022 During the recent Easter holiday, social media feeds were flooded with photographs of cheerful vacationers, many of whom were taking their first international excursions since the outbreak began. In Switzerland, you can go skiing. Thailand beach vacations That long-awaited trip to Disney World with the family. In fact, so
Singapore | Fri, April 1, 2022 After a two-year coronavirus shutdown, Singapore fully reopened its borders to all vaccinated visitors on Friday, with visitors saying it felt “great” to travel without restrictions once more. As they transition to live under COVID-19, the aviation hub, a crucial gateway for people arriving in Asia, joins other countries
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Sydney, Australia | Sun, March 13, 2022 Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia said the country’s political leaders want to proceed to a new phase of treating COVID-19 as if it were the flu, but that they would contact health professionals first. Morrison told reporters on Saturday morning, a day after meeting with the national
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Sandakan, Malaysia | Fri, January 28, 2022 Ettol Kumpilon’s tiny family farm in Malaysia’s eastern province of Sabah has allowed him to remodel his home, send his eldest child to school, and build up a solid savings account by switching from rice to oil palm. However, as a result of rising temperatures caused by climate
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December 25, 2021 It’s a moment that has been decades in the making. The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s premier space observatory of the next decade, successfully launched on Christmas morning. At 7:20 a.m. ET, the telescope launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. “The @NASAWebb Space Telescope has been
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Sydney, Australia | Wed, December 8, 2021 Australia will join the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday, as other allies considered similar actions to protest China’s human rights record. The United States has announced that its government officials will boycott the February
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