For the HALO Trust, exploding pagers are like anti-personnel mines
WEB5 days ago · In yesterday's action in Lebanon, apparently harmless objects turned out to be powerful weapons. The NGO that works in 28 countries to remove mines left behind by conflicts calls for an urgent ...
SRI LANKA Elezioni a Colombo: sfida serrata tra tre candidati
WEB3 days ago · Si tratta del presidente uscente Ranil Wickremesinghe, il leader dell'opposizione Sajith Premadasa e Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a capo di un'alleanza di sinistra, dato come favorito. Alle 12 aveva ...
VATICAN Pope at Angelus: ‘Let the voice of the peoples asking for …
WEB7 hours ago · Vatican City (AsiaNews) - ‘Let the voice of the peoples who ask for peace be heard’. This is how Pope Francis this morning after the recitation of the Angelus returned to call for peace in a ...
ASIA TODAY Dissanayake elected president in Sri Lanka
WEB11 hours ago · Anura Kumara Dissanayake, member of the Marxist-oriented National People's Power (NPP), is the winner of the presidential elections in Sri Lanka. He won by counting the voters' second choices ...
Artificial intelligence and ethics: Asian religions to sign appeal in ...
WEBFeb 3, 2024 · Bengaluru (AsiaNews) – A number of leaders representing Asian religions are set to sign the Rome Call for AI ethics at a meeting in July in Hiroshima, the very place that symbolises the wounds ...
PAKISTAN Blasphemy remains an emergency in Pakistan as …
WEB3 days ago · Three cases shake the conscience of the country and revive the issue of abuses linked to blasphemy rules. In Sindh, police kill a doctor investigated for blasphemous posts; a suspect is killed by ...
ASIA Open Doors 2024 survey: two out of every five ... - AsiaNews
WEBJan 17, 2024 · Rome (AsiaNews) – Two out of every five Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination on religious grounds in Asia, the largest region of the world affected by this issue ...
Zelensky to surprise in Philippines, de facto alliance against Beijing
WEBJun 3, 2024 · PHILIPPINES - UKRAINE. The Philippines will take part in the upcoming Ukraine peace summit to be held in Switzerland on 15 and 16 June. This was announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ...
Thailand: Chinese and Burmese workers trapped in tunnel have died
WEBAug 30, 2024 · THAILAND. Three foreign workers trapped in a collapsed train tunnel have died despite rescue efforts that lasted more than five days, Thai authorities said. The men, two from China and one from ...
'AsiaToday': A morning round up of the latest news from across the ...
WEBJan 24, 2014 · To mark the occasion, we are adding a new service to our news coverage: from tomorrow - November 2, 2021 - we will be launching "AsiaToday", a morning round-up of the day's news from all over the ...