SAS Personnel Refuse Questions as Afghanistan Inquiry Examines Killings and Missing Evidence #Afghanistan #Politics
SAS Personnel Refuse Questions as Afghanistan Inquiry Examines Killings and Missing Evidence
Refusals put direct testimony at risk A high proportion of SAS personnel approached by the public inquiry into alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan have refused to answer its questions, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave has said. The inquiry is examining allegations involving…
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October 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
SAS Personnel Refuse Questions as Afghanistan Inquiry Examines Killings and Missing Evidence #Afghanistan #Politics
Thai PBS challenges audit disclosure as reports seek 85.22 million baht in repayments #Thailand #Politics
Thai PBS challenges audit disclosure as reports seek 85.22 million baht in repayments
Two disputes emerge from a 5.09 billion baht spending review A reported State Audit Office letter dated October 7, 2026, asks the Thai PBS policy board to take action concerning director Vanchai Tantivitayapitak and pursue repayment of 85,222,935.65 baht over…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Snow Man's AMENITY Tops One Million in First Week, Tying B'z Album Record #Japan #Entertainment
Snow Man's AMENITY Tops One Million in First Week, Tying B'z Album Record
A Million Copies and a Record Shared With B'z Snow Man's AMENITY sold 1,014,000 copies in its opening week on the Oricon Weekly Album Ranking, giving the nine member group its fifth consecutive album to pass one million sales in…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Snow Man's AMENITY Tops One Million in First Week, Tying B'z Album Record #Japan #Entertainment
KP Emergency Puts Constitutional Limits, Detentions and Elected Rule at the Center of Pakistan’s Dispute #Pakistan #Politics
KP Emergency Puts Constitutional Limits, Detentions and Elected Rule at the Center of Pakistan’s Dispute
Two constitutional powers, one displaced government Governor Faisal Karim Kundi is administering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with an 11 member advisory council after President Asif Ali Zardari imposed emergency and governor’s rule on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The federal…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Prachin Buri Floodwater Tests Find High Petroleum Contamination Near Industrial Waste Landfill #Thailand #Environment
Prachin Buri Floodwater Tests Find High Petroleum Contamination Near Industrial Waste Landfill
One sampling point records 114,860 milligrams per litre Water collected about 65 metres from a leaking embankment near an industrial waste landfill in Hua Wa, Si Maha Phot district, Prachin Buri, contained petroleum hydrocarbons at a reported concentration of 114,860…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Prachin Buri Floodwater Tests Find High Petroleum Contamination Near Industrial Waste Landfill #Thailand #Environment
ICE Detains Hong Kong Residents Protected From Deportation as Congress Proposes Permanent Residency #HongKong #Politics
ICE Detains Hong Kong Residents Protected From Deportation as Congress Proposes Permanent Residency
Protection Through February 2027 Has Not Prevented Arrests At least 12 Hong Kong residents protected from deportation under a presidential directive have been detained at U.S. airports since June 2026, according to immigration lawyers. Judges subsequently ordered their release after…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
CTBC Brothers Beat Uni Lions 8–2 to Set Up First Taiwan Series Against Wei Chuan Dragons #Taiwan #Sports
CTBC Brothers Beat Uni Lions 8–2 to Set Up First Taiwan Series Against Wei Chuan Dragons
Five consecutive scoring innings send Brothers into the final The CTBC Brothers defeated the Uni Lions 8–2 at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium on October 12, ending a tense playoff challenge series and securing the first Taiwan Series meeting between the…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Afghanistan Admitted 111,099 Children for Malnutrition Treatment in August as Aid Gaps Deepened #Afghanistan #Health
Afghanistan Admitted 111,099 Children for Malnutrition Treatment in August as Aid Gaps Deepened
Treatment expanded as the nutrition crisis worsened UNICEF and its partners screened 1.3 million children for wasting in Afghanistan in August 2026 and admitted 111,099 for treatment, including 58,891 with severe wasting. At the same time, supplies of specialized nutrition…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Afghanistan Admitted 111,099 Children for Malnutrition Treatment in August as Aid Gaps Deepened #Afghanistan #Health
Chawkbazar market fire burns into the night as two firefighters are reported injured #Bangladesh #Society
Chawkbazar market fire burns into the night as two firefighters are reported injured
Ten firefighting units struggle to contain sixth floor blaze A fire at Manzur Khan Plaza in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar remained uncontrolled into the early hours of Tuesday, October 13, after firefighters spent hours battling locked warehouses, dense smoke and a…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Chawkbazar market fire burns into the night as two firefighters are reported injured #Bangladesh #Society
Journalists allege police suppression as Delhi voter list protests reach Supreme Court #India #Politics
Journalists allege police suppression as Delhi voter list protests reach Supreme Court
Press detentions deepen the confrontation in Delhi Nearly three dozen journalists were detained while covering protests in New Delhi over October 10 and 11, according to accounts from reporters, as a dispute over the removal of more than 130 million…
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October 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Coastal Bangladesh Farmers Return to Crops as Salinity, Chemical Costs and Debt Squeeze Livelihoods #Bangladesh #Environment
Coastal Bangladesh Farmers Return to Crops as Salinity, Chemical Costs and Debt Squeeze Livelihoods
A return to farming on land still burdened by salt In Shyamnagar, near Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the government agriculture office lists 71,000 farmers and 17,539 hectares of cultivable land. Its assessment identifies five obstacles to production: salinity, irrigation shortages during the…
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October 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Coastal Bangladesh Farmers Return to Crops as Salinity, Chemical Costs and Debt Squeeze Livelihoods #Bangladesh #Environment
Pakistan Nears First Astronaut Flight as Two Pilots Train for Tiangong Mission #China #Pakistan #Science
Pakistan Nears First Astronaut Flight as Two Pilots Train for Tiangong Mission
Two candidates, one place aboard Tiangong Pakistan is preparing to send its first astronaut into orbit, with military pilots Muhammad Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud training in Beijing for a mission expected to last about one week aboard China's Tiangong…
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October 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Indonesia Approves Labor Protection Law, With Four Year Contract Limit and Tougher Dismissal Rules #Indonesia #Politics
Indonesia Approves Labor Protection Law, With Four Year Contract Limit and Tougher Dismissal Rules
Parliament approves 313 articles, but implementation must wait Indonesia's House of Representatives approved the Employment Protection Law on October 6, 2026, introducing tighter dismissal rules, a four year ceiling on temporary contracts and protections for digital platform workers. The legislation…
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October 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Indonesia Approves Labor Protection Law, With Four Year Contract Limit and Tougher Dismissal Rules #Indonesia #Politics
Lee Soo-man Returns With A2O Soul and A2O Lite, Pairing New Music With 4D Performance Technology #SouthKorea #Singapore #Entertainment
Lee Soo-man Returns With A2O Soul and A2O Lite, Pairing New Music With 4D Performance Technology
Two New Groups and a Performance You Can Enter Lee Soo-man introduced 24 new performers across two groups at KINTEX Exhibition Center 2, Hall 9, in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on October 12, 2026. His Singapore headquartered company, A2O Entertainment, presented…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Lee Soo-man Returns With A2O Soul and A2O Lite, Pairing New Music With 4D Performance Technology #SouthKorea #Singapore #Entertainment
Indonesia's Biofuel Expansion Tests the Limits of Palm Oil, Food Supply and Forest Protection #Indonesia #Environment
Indonesia's Biofuel Expansion Tests the Limits of Palm Oil, Food Supply and Forest Protection
A widening gap between fuel ambitions and supply Indonesia's biofuel ambitions face a basic supply constraint: a study led by Yayasan Madani Berkelanjutan estimates that biodiesel and bioethanol supply will reach 26.6 million kiloliters in 2030, against projected demand of…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Indonesia's Biofuel Expansion Tests the Limits of Palm Oil, Food Supply and Forest Protection #Indonesia #Environment
Bangladesh Seeks New Financing as IMF and World Bank Reform Goals Align #Bangladesh #Economy
Bangladesh Seeks New Financing as IMF and World Bank Reform Goals Align
Reform agreement meets an urgent financing need Bangladesh is seeking around $4 billion in budget support for fiscal 2026/27 while pursuing a five year recovery strategy that its government says shares key goals with the International Monetary Fund and World…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Bangladesh Seeks New Financing as IMF and World Bank Reform Goals Align #Bangladesh #Economy
Exxon Reportedly Blocks Kashagan Fine Settlement as Kazakhstan Resumes Collection #Kazakhstan #Economy
Exxon Reportedly Blocks Kashagan Fine Settlement as Kazakhstan Resumes Collection
A $5.2 billion dispute divides Kashagan partners ExxonMobil has reportedly blocked a proposed settlement of Kazakhstan's 2.356 trillion tenge environmental fine against the operator of the Kashagan oil field, with TotalEnergies joining its opposition. The reported breakdown comes after authorities…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Exxon Reportedly Blocks Kashagan Fine Settlement as Kazakhstan Resumes Collection #Kazakhstan #Economy
CXMT Targets 2026 Launch of 4F2 Server Memory as Samsung Eyes 2028 Production #China #Technology
CXMT Targets 2026 Launch of 4F2 Server Memory as Samsung Eyes 2028 Production
A smaller memory cell and an ambitious deadline ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest memory chipmaker, plans to introduce DDR5 registered server memory using a 4F2 DRAM architecture by the end of 2026. President Cao Kanyu outlined the plan on…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
CXMT Targets 2026 Launch of 4F2 Server Memory as Samsung Eyes 2028 Production #China #Technology
Godzilla Minus Zero Brings King Ghidorah to Postwar Japan as Yamazaki Expands His Sequel #Japan #Entertainment
Godzilla Minus Zero Brings King Ghidorah to Postwar Japan as Yamazaki Expands His Sequel
A new catastrophe arrives in Matsumoto Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero moves the surviving Shikishima family into 1949, introduces King Ghidorah in an attack on Matsumoto and expands the filmmaker's vision of a Japan still recovering from war. The 135…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Godzilla Minus Zero Brings King Ghidorah to Postwar Japan as Yamazaki Expands His Sequel #Japan #Entertainment
Western Ghats ESA Draft: Six States Face Boundary Disputes as Protection Remains Unfinished #India #Environment
Western Ghats ESA Draft: Six States Face Boundary Disputes as Protection Remains Unfinished
A 56,825.7 square kilometre proposal faces another test India's seventh draft proposal to designate 56,825.7 square kilometres of the Western Ghats as an Ecologically Sensitive Area has brought the dispute over conservation boundaries back to state legislatures and village communities.…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Western Ghats ESA Draft: Six States Face Boundary Disputes as Protection Remains Unfinished #India #Environment
Former Cyberport Director Among Six Charged in HK$20 Million Technology Subsidy Case #HongKong #Technology
Former Cyberport Director Among Six Charged in HK$20 Million Technology Subsidy Case
Gifts, accelerated applications and an alleged subsidy fraud A former Cyberport director and five people connected to a technology supplier have been charged in Hong Kong over alleged bribery and fraud involving at least 400 applications for government technology subsidies…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Former Cyberport Director Among Six Charged in HK$20 Million Technology Subsidy Case #HongKong #Technology
Supreme Court Questions Cancer Drug Margin Cap, Seeks Wider Scrutiny of Medicine Prices #India #Health
Supreme Court Questions Cancer Drug Margin Cap, Seeks Wider Scrutiny of Medicine Prices
A 30% cap faces a broader test The Supreme Court has questioned why India's proposed 30% trade margin cap should cover only selected cancer medicines when large gaps between procurement prices and patient prices also occur across other drugs and…
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October 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM