Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea’s border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the nuclear-armed North that is driving residents to despair.Before it started, 56-year-old Kim Yun-suk fell asleep to the hum of insects and woke to the chirping of birds. Now, she is kept awake …
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A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 million at Christie’s in New York.The seminal 1954 painting had been valued at $95 million, and the previous record for a work by Magritte (1898-1967) was $79 million, set in 2022.After a nearly 10-minute bidding …
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Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai insisted his newspaper had championed democracy and “freedom” as he took the witness stand Wednesday for the first time in his trial for collusion with foreign forces.Lai’s case is one of the most prominent prosecuted under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, with Western countries …
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is due to appear before a military court on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after his reported abduction in neighbouring Kenya.”The latest information we have is Besigye is in military cells in Kampala and the army is planning to produce him in the General Court Martial today,” one of Besigye’s …
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Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, warning the true toll could be double or triple its estimate of 1,000 people killed or wounded.Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered …
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is being held in a military jail after being “kidnapped” in Kenya, according to his wife, a top UN official.Winnie Byanyima, head of UNAIDS, demanded on X in a post early Wednesday that the government of Uganda “release my husband Dr. Kizza Besigye from where he is being held …
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It was an unlucky day in the Burmese calendar, farmer Yar Swe Kyin warned her husband in July, begging him not to go out to check on their crops.Hours later he was dead, killed by one of the countless landmines laid by both sides in Myanmar’s three brutal years of civil war.In the evening, “I …
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The UN Security Council is expected to vote Wednesday on another draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in its latest attempt to exert pressure to end the war.But the draft could be blocked by the United States, Israel’s main ally.The latest draft of the resolution demands “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in …
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Japanese people are the least satisfied with their sex and romantic lives, closely followed by South Koreans, a global survey by a French research firm showed. The two Asian rivals are grappling with a similar demographic crisis with their chronically — and dangerously, as authorities warn — low birth rates.The poll of 31 countries, conducted by …
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Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, with over 1,000 people killed or wounded in the country.Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions.But the military’s …
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