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When a train comes to Aizawl: How the new railway line brings both hope and hesitation in Mizoram
The Indian Express
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July 19, 2025
Lalhmachhuani, 45, has never left Mizoram. She runs a small eatery out of her home in Sairang, 20 km from capital Aizawl, and rarely gets to step out. But these days, with all the talk of a train coming to the nearby Sairang station, Lalhmachhuani...
Court Agrees Trump Administration’s ICC Sanctions Likely Violate Advocates’ First Amendment Rights
American Civil Liberties Union
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BANGOR, Maine — The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine granted a preliminary injunction in Smith v. Trump, a lawsuit brought by two U.S. human rights advocates who are challenging the Trump administration’s executive order imposing...
UN refugee agency warns funding cuts may leave 11 million without aid
Al Jazeera
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July 18, 2025
Crisis compounded after United States, which provided 40 percent of UNHCR funding last year, slashed its contribution. More than 11 million refugees risk losing access to humanitarian aid owing to a “dramatic” funding crisis, according to the...
Cambodia continues raids on scam centers; over 2,100 nabbed in 3 weeks
Inquirer
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July 19, 2025
In this photo provided by state news service Agence Kampuchea Press, alleged online scammers stand next to their tools collected by authorities at its site in a classroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, July 18, 2025. (AKP via...
A deadly cocktail: Easy access, lax attitudes driving Kpod scourge in S’pore
The Straits Times
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July 18, 2025
SINGAPORE - When Joe (not his real name) wanted a vaping fix, the 15-year-old would whip out his phone, scan through a series of Telegram groups and pick a seller based on price. A “delivery man” would be near his home with an e-vaporiser laced...
Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them
WAtoday
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July 18, 2025
Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Pat Conroy said: “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty is the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the world and the most significant Pacific policy this country has undertaken in the last 50 years.” A...
School witnessing silent transformation
The Arunachal Times
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[Bengia Ajum] NGISSA, 17 Jul: A Government Primary School here in Longding district, located near the Indo-Myanmar border, is witnessing a silent transformation due to the effort of one Ganchai Wangsa, the chairman of the School Management...
World News | Cambodia Continues Raids on Scam Centres, Bringing Arrests in Past 3 Weeks over 2,100
Latestly
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July 18, 2025
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Jul 18 (AP) Authorities in Cambodia continued their stepped-up campaign against online scam centres, arresting at least 500 suspects in two provinces on Thursday and Friday, the country's information minister said. The...
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleges harassment of Rajbanshis, Matuas in other states
The Economic Times
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July 17, 2025
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that Rajbanshis and Matuas were subjected to torture and harassment in other states and people from a particular religion were also being targeted. Speaking at an event in...
Rajbanshis, Matuas tortured in other states: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
The Economic Times
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July 17, 2025
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that Rajbanshis and Matuas were subjected to torture and harassment in other states and people from a particular religion were also being targeted. Speaking at an event in Kolkata,...
Ahom Valour Makes Its Way Into NCERT Textbooks In Step Towards Honouring Assam’s Legacy
News18
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July 17, 2025
Last Updated:July 17, 2025, 16:13 IST The Ahoms, who migrated in the 13th century from Mong Mao (in present-day Myanmar) to Brahmaputra Valley, laid the foundations of one of the most enduring and effective dynasties In November 2022, Assam CM...
Aid cuts leave refugee agency unable to shelter six in 10 fleeing war in Sudan
Media Monitors Network
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July 18, 2025
Globally, $1.4 billion of the agency’s programmes are being shuttered or put on hold, UNHCR said in a new report. “We can’t stop water, you can’t stop sanitation, but we’re having to take decisions when it comes, for example, to shelter,” said...
46 Vietnamese telecom fraud suspects repatriated
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 15, 2025
Immigration processes are underway for the deportation of 46 Vietnamese telecom fraud suspects. Authorities repatriated 46 Vietnamese nationals involved in online gambling, telecom fraud and other crimes, who had illegally entered Myanmar through...
Shadow government condemns killers of Fr Donald, but Catholics demand justice
Asia News
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July 18, 2025
The Nug has handed down a 20-year prison sentence to members of the group responsible for the murder in Sagaing. The priest was killed in a targeted and premeditated attack. AsiaNews source: the sentence is positive, but "we do not see...
World Associated Press Cambodia continues raids on scam centers, bringing arrests in past 3 weeks over 2,100
Yahoo News
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Authorities in Cambodia continued their stepped-up campaign against online scam centers, arresting at least 500 suspects in two provinces on Thursday and Friday, the country's information minister said. The arrests in...
The Genocide No One Talks About: Biharis, Betrayal, And 1971’s Unfinished Story
Friday Times
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July 18, 2025
The word “genocide,” coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, has lost its pain due to its live transmission on our TV screens. This op-ed is certainly not about the “alleged” genocide in Gaza, because I do not wish to diminish my chances...
Over 11 million refugees risk losing aid because of funding cuts, reveals UN
Gulf Today
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July 18, 2025
Massive cuts to humanitarian budgets risk leaving more than 11 million refugees without desperately needed aid, the United Nations warned on Friday. That corresponds to a full third of the number reached last year by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR....
Made In Singapore: ‘Orchid diplomacy’ has flowers named after Obama, Pope Francis and Jackie Chan
The Straits Times
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July 18, 2025
SINGAPORE – “Selected for vigour and the amount of growth it produces,” remarked then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she posed for photos with an orchid named after her in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. It was 1985, and that was the...
¿Por qué Estados Unidos deporta migrantes a África?
KVIA - Texas
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July 18, 2025
Por Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español Estados Unidos ha comenzado a deportar migrantes con antecedentes penales a países de África con los que no tienen ningún vínculo, una práctica sin precedentes que ha generado preocupación entre organizaciones de...
IU student equips Indiana educators with vital Chin cultural and languages training
Indiana University Indianapolis
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Sui Hnem Par, an IU School of Education student in Bloomington, helped facilitate the Chin Languages Workshop for P12 educators in Perry Township. Photo by Liz Kaye, Indiana University Indiana is home to 40,000 people who moved from Chin State in...