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Balancing security powers with civil liberties after Paris attacks

France, Dec. 1 -- On the night of 13 November 2015, then president Francois Hollande declared a nationwide state of emergency, granting French police and intelligence services extraordinary authority ... Read More


Bangladesh court jails British MP Tulip, mother Rehana and ex-PM Hasina in graft case

Dhaka, Dec. 1 -- A Dhaka court has delivered its verdict in another corruption case against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members over the allocation of plots in the Purbachal New... Read More


Old Meets New in Nepal's Farming Communities

Kathmandu, Dec. 1 -- Every time I visit my grandparents' village in Arghakhanchi during Dashain or Tihar, I feel like I am stepping into a place where two different worlds exist at once. There are fie... Read More


New food and feed laws needed to let insect protein stop world hunger - Alessandra Nasharyna Anak George Martin, Geetha Chandra Regan, and Mohd Istajib Mokhtar

Kuala Lampur, Dec. 1 -- The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 calls for the eradication of hunger and the promotion of sustainable agriculture by 2030. Yet, the road to this ambiti... Read More


NIA raids eight sites in J&K, UP in probe into deadly Red Fort terror attack

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has carried out searches across eight locations in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh and seized various digital devices and other incrimi... Read More


"Monster responsible" for National Guard shooting will face "most severe punishment": US

Washington DC, Dec. 1 -- The US has said that the "monster responsible" for the killing of a National Guard member in a shooting near White House will face "the most severe punishment." An Afghan nat... Read More


Tinubu has a police palaver, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Nigeria, Dec. 1 -- When Olusegun Obasanjo returned as the president of Nigeria in May 1999, according to Mohammed Dikko (MD) Yusuf, a former Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) he "inherited a Police F... Read More


Japanese assessment team to meet with DRPD

Srilanka, Dec. 1 -- Japan's assessment team which consists of medical professionals and JICA staff arrived in Colombo last night (30), and is in discussion with the Ministry of Health on where to depl... Read More


Pope Leo XIV doubles down on insistence for 2-state solution to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- Pope Leo XIV doubled down Sunday on the Holy See's insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying in his first airborne news conference tha... Read More


Lounge Loves: Shuffalo, 'Last Samurai Standing' and more

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- I recently spent a weekend in my hometown in Himachal Pradesh to get some respite from the Delhi pollution. During an impromptu visit to a temple, I saw a pandit wearing an exquis... Read More