On a steamy night deep in one of Taipei’s most conservative suburbs, a group of elderly neighbours are yelling at each other next to a garbage truck. They have just been handed a leaflet by a university student calling on them to recall –…
Category: 4. World
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Singapore is ranked No. 1
Singapore has the world’s strongest passport — again, according to the latest Henley Passport Index.
The ranking, released Tuesday, shows the small nation-state retaining the top spot in the index, after it broke a six-way tie for the accolade…
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Iran’s detainees in ‘unbearable’ conditions after Israeli strikes
Ghoncheh HabibiazadBBC Persian, World Service reporter
EPAParts of Evin prison were badly damaged in the Israeli strikes One month on from deadly Israeli air strikes on a notorious Iranian prison during the war between the two countries, inmates…
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Ukraine Marks First Loss Of Mirage 2000 Fighter
A Ukrainian Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter has crashed, the…
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AFP news agency says situation for its journalists in Gaza is ‘untenable’
A group of journalists at the Agence France-Presse news agency is sounding the alarm about conditions faced by colleagues working in Gaza, saying that “without immediate intervention, the last reporters…
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