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Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council has documented 458 Taiwanese nationals missing, detained, or restricted in China — with I-Kuan Tao (Yiguandao) followers explicitly among those targeted. Officials…
Bolivia's President Rodrigo Paz has declared a national emergency as El Niño-driven drought leaves 80,000 families without water…
Official dengue figures in Pakistan have been masking a catastrophe for years. An Aga Khan University study in PLOS ONE now…
Pakistan's energy crisis has reached a point where families in Rawalpindi are burning firewood and coal just to cook — a…
India and Myanmar held their eighth Army-to-Army Staff Talks in Naypyidaw on 1 November 2026, with New Delhi handing over…
Bulgaria's presidential runoff on 1 November comes down to a razor-thin rematch: incumbent Iliana Iotova's centre-left ticket,…
The FBI has formally pinned a $6 billion-plus cryptocurrency heist at Binance on North Korea's TraderTraitor operation — one of…
At the close of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Atlanta, EAM Jaishankar struck a cautiously optimistic note — saying…
Vivek Ramaswamy outlined a four-pillar conservative state-governance platform on November 1, 2026 — lower costs, bigger…
