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Over 2,500 households evacuated due to floods in Myanmar
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Over 2,500 households evacuated due to floods in Myanmar

Yangon, July 3: Floods displaced more than 2,500 households in several towns of northern Myanmar following heavy rains and rising river levels, official daily Myanma Alinn reported on Wednesday. In Myitkyina of Kachin State, the water level of the Ayeyarwady River exceeded its warning mark on...
Pentagon decries North Korea
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Pentagon decries North Korea's recent missile launches as 'irresponsible'

Washington, July 3: A Pentagon spokesperson criticised North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches as "irresponsible," and reiterated the US' calls for the recalcitrant regime to return to diplomacy. Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder made the remarks after Pyongyang claimed to have...
Japan launches new banknotes
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Japan launches new banknotes

Tokyo, July 3: Japan on Wednesday started issuing new 10,000 yen (61.9 U.S. dollars), 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen banknotes, which marked the first redesign since 2004. The current banknotes will remain legal tender following the circulation of new bills, according to the Finance Ministry and the Bank...
World Bank classifies Mongolia as upper middle income country
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World Bank classifies Mongolia as upper middle income country

Ulan Bator, July 3: Mongolia has been reclassified by the World Bank from a lower-middle income country to an upper-middle income country for the 2024 fiscal year, announced the country's Finance Ministry on Wednesday. This marks Mongolia's first inclusion in the upper-middle-income category since...
Hathras tragedy: Putin sends condolence message to President Murmu, PM Modi
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Hathras tragedy: Putin sends condolence message to President Murmu, PM Modi

Moscow, July 3: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sent a condolence message to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the stampede in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district. "Esteemed Mrs President, Esteemed Mr Prime Minister, kindly accept the most sincere condolences...
Nikhil Gupta, accused in
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Nikhil Gupta, accused in 'murder-for-hire' plot, appears before US trial judge...

New York, June 29; Nikhil Gupta, the Indian national accused in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, has appeared for the first time before the trial judge as lawyers laid out the preliminary steps. Federal Senior Judge Victor Marrero set the next court date for September 13 during the brief hearing on...
UN-sponsored prisoner exchange negotiations between Yemeni factions scheduled in Muscat
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UN-sponsored prisoner exchange negotiations between Yemeni factions scheduled in...

Aden (Yemen), June 29: The UN is set to facilitate a new round of negotiations between the Yemeni government and the Houthi group representatives concerning prisoner and detainee exchanges, a government official told the media. The local government official, who asked to remain anonymous, said on...
Australian PM reveals threat from alleged teen terrorist
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Australian PM reveals threat from alleged teen terrorist

Canberra, June 29: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed he and his family were threatened by an accused teenage terrorist. Albanese said on Friday that he and his family were among those threatened in an extremist manifesto in which 19-year-old Jordan Patten allegedly outlined...
Japan: Another US soldier charged with sexual assault in Okinawa
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Japan: Another US soldier charged with sexual assault in Okinawa

Tokyo, June 29: Public prosecutors in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa have indicted a 21-year-old US Marine on charges of yet another non-consensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury. On Friday, the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office said that they filed charges against Lance...
Seven killed in Nepal landslides
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Seven killed in Nepal landslides

Kathmandu, June 29: Seven people were killed in two landslides in western Nepal on Saturday, local officials said. Five members of one family died after their house was swept away in a landslide in Malika Rural Municipality of Gulmi District. Devi Ram Aryal, Chairman of the municipality, told Xinhua...
South Korean Minister vows efforts to bring North Korea back to dialogue with
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South Korean Minister vows efforts to bring North Korea back to dialogue with...

Seoul, June 28: Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho on Friday said the government will make efforts with "patience" to create conditions to bring North Korea back to the dialogue table while bolstering trilateral cooperation with the US and Japan against Pyongyang's military threats. Kim made the...
Pakistan
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Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves fall by $239 mn

Islamabad, June 28: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said that its foreign exchange reserves had decreased by $239 million due to external debt repayments. During the week ending on June 21, the total foreign exchange reserves of the bank fell to around 8.9 billion dollars, the SBP said in a...
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