Monday | 2nd February 2026 Tokyo — An Australian snowboarder has died while on a holiday with friends in Japan after her backpack became caught on a ski lift, leaving her suspended in midair, according to Japanese police and the lift operator. Nagano Omachi Police said the 22-year-old tourist went into cardiac arrest following the
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Tuesday | 27th January 2026 President Donald Trump on Monday showed his first concrete signs of retreat since surging federal immigration agents into Minnesota late last year, moving to replace the official overseeing the crackdown on the ground and signaling a newfound willingness to engage with the state’s Democratic leadership. The shift followed weeks of
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Thursday | 15th January 2026 Minneapolis officials pleaded for calm late Wednesday as volatile confrontations broke out near the site of a shooting involving a federal immigration agent, further inflaming a city already reeling from the killing of a woman by federal authorities just a week earlier. The latest incident unfolded in a residential neighborhood
Thursday | 8th January 2026 Tokyo may be a futuristic metropolis defined by neon skylines, bullet trains, and cutting-edge technology, but beneath its modern veneer lie roots that stretch back more than four centuries. In the 17th century, the city was known as Edo—a dynamic and densely populated capital of the Tokugawa shogunate that ranked
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Selasa | 6 Januari 2026 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon is moving forward with administrative punishment against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a retired US Navy captain, for his participation in a video urging US service members to refuse illegal orders. The decision marks a dramatic escalation in tensions between
Thursday | 4th December 2026 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hardened Moscow’s position on territorial control in eastern Ukraine, declaring that Russia would seize the Donbas region “by military or other means,” reinforcing one of the Kremlin’s central demands even as diplomatic efforts to end the war continue on multiple fronts. The remarks underscore
Thursday | 27th November 2025 HONG KONG — One of the deadliest fires in Hong Kong’s recent history continued to rage through the night into Thursday, killing at least 44 people, leaving 279 others unaccounted for, and injuring dozens more as firefighters battled towering flames engulfing a densely populated public housing complex. The massive blaze
Sunday | 23rd November 2025 Manila, The Philippines — When Ahtisa Manalo stepped onto the Miss Universe stage for this year’s final, the country stood still. Across living rooms, neighborhood sari-sari stores, malls, cafés and even public plazas, millions of Filipinos tuned in, their eyes glued to the screen as they dissected her walk, her
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Saturday | 8th November 2025 Just eighty years ago, a journey from London or New York to Sydney or Melbourne required more than a week, involving multiple stopovers by ship or plane. Today, that once-distant dream of flying directly between the hemispheres is on the verge of becoming reality. Qantas announced on Friday that the
Friday | 24th October 2025 New York — President Donald Trump has abruptly canceled ongoing trade negotiations with Canada, lashing out over what he called a “fake” advertisement produced by the Ontario government that featured clips of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaking against tariffs. The controversy erupted after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation &
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