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February 16, 2026 5:18 PM
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A Baloch student was extrajudicially killed by Pakistani forces in Balochistan. Condemning the extrajudicial killing of 22-year-old Junaid Ahmed, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department Paank said that Ahmed's body was found on the eastern bypass in provincial capital Quetta yesterd...
February 16, 2026 2:03 PM
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Myanmar has ordered today the head of ASEAN member state East Timor’s diplomatic mission to leave the country within seven days. This came a month after Myanmar's Chin state Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) filed a complaint with the justice department of East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, alleg...
February 16, 2026 1:39 PM
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Israel's cabinet approved a plan on Sunday to restart formal land registration in the occupied West Bank, marking the first such measure since Israel captured the territory in 1967. The decision, advanced by far-right ministers including finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, justice minister Yariv Le...
February 16, 2026 12:09 PM
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Former Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko was detained at the state border while trying to exit the country. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) said its detectives apprehended the ex-minister yesterday while crossing the state border as part of the long-running corrupti...
February 16, 2026 11:16 AM
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Twenty-five fishermen from Karaikal were apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy while fishing near the International Maritime Boundary Line this morning. The incident occurred near the Kaarainagar sea area. The Sri Lankan naval personnel, who were on patrol, alleged that the fishermen had crossed the ma...
February 16, 2026 10:45 AM
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Members of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) have decided to refrain from appearing before courts nationwide in protest over the fatal shooting of a lawyer and his wife in Colombo on Saturday. BASL President Rajeev Amarasuriya has said the decision was taken at a special general meeting foll...
February 16, 2026 8:04 AM
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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman met the Chief Executive Officer of APM Terminals, Keith Svendsen, in Munich, Germany. In a social media post, the Ministry of Finance said that during the meeting, both sides discussed the advantages of the recently concluded India-...
February 16, 2026 7:40 AM
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Australia said it would spend 3.9 billion Australian dollars to progress the construction of a shipyard that will help deliver nuclear-powered submarines under the trilateral AUKUS defence pact with the U.S. and Britain. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the 3.9 billion as a down ...
February 16, 2026 10:53 AM
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said India is the right place to host the first-ever AI Summit in the global south. While speaking to a private news agency ahead of the AI Impact Summit 2026, starting today, Guterres said artificial intelligence must serve the entire world an...
February 16, 2026 7:27 AM
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that any potential agreement with Iran must include the removal of nuclear material, a halt to uranium enrichment and restrictions on ballistic missiles. Speaking at a public conference yesterday after a recent meeting with US President Donald Trump in ...
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