Tajikistan News
June 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
New Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 7 (ANI): India dominated Day 2 of the one-off Test against Afghanistan, posting a mammoth 564/8 declared in their first innings with the visitors struggling at 113/5 at stumps.Centuries from KL Rahul and skipper Shubman Gill, combined with fifties from Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar, laid the foundation for India's commanding position.Debutant Manav Suthar and pac
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Kyrgyzstan News
June 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
New Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 7 (ANI): India dominated Day 2 of the one-off Test against Afghanistan, posting a mammoth 564/8 declared in their first innings with the visitors struggling at 113/5 at stumps.Centuries from KL Rahul and skipper Shubman Gill, combined with fifties from Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar, laid the foundation for India's commanding position.Debutant Manav Suthar and pac
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Turkmenistan News
June 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
New Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 7 (ANI): India dominated Day 2 of the one-off Test against Afghanistan, posting a mammoth 564/8 declared in their first innings with the visitors struggling at 113/5 at stumps.Centuries from KL Rahul and skipper Shubman Gill, combined with fifties from Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar, laid the foundation for India's commanding position.Debutant Manav Suthar and pac
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A US congressional committee has cast doubt on Donald Trump’s “Golden Fleet” programme, warning it could overwhelm already strained nuclear-powered shipbuilding capacity and calling for a detailed review of its centrepiece battleship. One lawmaker also warned of the vulnerability of battleships in modern maritime warfare, citing the capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army’s Dongfeng missile series, which includes the DF-21D ballistic missile – widely dubbed a “carrier killer”. The...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Dr Richard Lokudu, the medical director of Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital, has received barely any compensation for his work on the front line of one of Congo’s deadliest Ebola virus outbreaks. Lokudu and several of his colleagues work all day at the hospital treating an influx of patients. Notifications of suspected cases come even late at night. “I have not received my allowance [and] what happened to others could happen to me as well,” Lokudu said. “Despite all the infection prevention...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Canada late last month to consolidate a new economic partnership, Prime Minister Mark Carney was in New York pitching for more than US$1 trillion in investment. “The timing was almost certainly deliberate,” said Alejandro Reyes, a professor of politics and a senior fellow at the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. “It signals to Washington that engagement with Beijing does not come at the expense of the...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The international media consensus following the Beijing summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump was predictable: grand on optics, short on substance. Dismissing it on those grounds misses the deeper story of how the summit marked a turning point in how Washington and Beijing manage their rivalry, particularly over Taiwan. To understand where this relationship is going, a brief historical detour is in order. In April 2001, then US president George W. Bush...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Pakistan’s interior minister was in Tehran on Sunday in a fresh bid to restart negotiations between Iran and the US, as the American military said it shot down two more Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz that threatened international maritime traffic. The latest action came as the Washington presses for Iran to make a deal to end the war in the Middle East, which has strained the global economy and threatened a hunger crisis in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. The heaviest...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Hong Kong police have arrested a driver who crashed his car into a parked vehicle in Tai Kok Tsui and tested positive for ketamine, marking at least the fourth suspected drug-driving case in less than a week. The accident occurred at around noon on Sunday on Hoi Fai Road outside the Olympian City 3 shopping centre where the 30-year-old’s Tesla car struck the rear of a stationary vehicle before veering onto the pavement. The male driver of the parked car, also a Tesla, suffered neck injuries and...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
North Korea said on Sunday that its nuclear weapons programme was “irreversible”, challenging the US push for denuclearisation a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit. After President Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi last month, the United States said the two leaders shared the goal of denuclearising the Korean peninsula, although the Chinese statement did not mention the issue. But Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, described the comments as “false...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
A handful of Chinese biotechnology companies are expected to bring medications to consumers in Europe and the US under their own brand names within the next 10 to 15 years, according to policy and industry analysts. Amid China’s early-stage drug outlicensing boom, discussions have arisen among investor and analyst circles as to when – and which – Chinese biotechnology companies will start selling their own drugs internationally. Outlicensing agreements typically refer to a company granting...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In the second of a six-part Health Matters wellness series on cancer in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines the rise of lung cancer among women, the risk factors beyond smoking and growing calls for earlier detection. Rates of new lung cancer cases among Hong Kong women have risen by 20 per cent in the past two decades despite their smoking less than men, a South China Morning Post review has found, prompting calls for citywide screenings to catch the disease earlier. Experts said genetic...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will stand if a leadership contest is triggered, a senior minister said on Sunday, after media reported Starmer had contacted key backers insisting he would run in any race. This came after popular Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham, who is standing in a key by-election this month, said last week he would participate in any leadership race, although none has yet been triggered. Starmer “has been absolutely clear – were there to be a contest – you need 81...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Hong Kong will soon open its first convenience store operated by a humanoid robot as part of the city’s push to integrate AI into everyday life and deepen residents’ understanding of the technology, the finance chief has said. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also revealed on Sunday that a high-level government committee dedicated to AI development in Hong Kong had been formed and would hold its first meeting this month. The 24-hour convenience store was located on the waterfront in Hung Hom...
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Tajikistan News
June 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
New Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 7 (ANI): Sensational tons from KL Rahul, skipper Shubman Gill and fifties from Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar have placed India in the driver's seat at Tea on the second day of the one-off Test against Afghanistan.Afghanistan ended the second session of the day at 28/1, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz (0*) and Sediqullah Atal (11*) unbeaten. India started the second sessi
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Kyrgyzstan News
June 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
New Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 7 (ANI): Sensational tons from KL Rahul, skipper Shubman Gill and fifties from Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar have placed India in the driver's seat at Tea on the second day of the one-off Test against Afghanistan.Afghanistan ended the second session of the day at 28/1, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz (0*) and Sediqullah Atal (11*) unbeaten. India started the second sessi
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Turkmenistan News
June 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
New Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 7 (ANI): Sensational tons from KL Rahul, skipper Shubman Gill and fifties from Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar have placed India in the driver's seat at Tea on the second day of the one-off Test against Afghanistan.Afghanistan ended the second session of the day at 28/1, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz (0*) and Sediqullah Atal (11*) unbeaten. India started the second sessi
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
President Xi Jinping is heading to North Korea on Monday with the aim of proving that China remains the best prospect for reviving his host country’s economy. The visit, Xi’s first in seven years, will focus on reinforcing ties with Pyongyang at a time when the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula appears increasingly out of reach, according to analysts. The carefully timed sequence of diplomatic meetings also reflects Beijing’s growing confidence on the world stage and its ability to engage...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party led the opposition Monday in early results from parliamentary elections that could cement his Westward tilt, after threats from Moscow and claims of Russian interference. Armenia and Russia are technically allies, but Moscow has compared the former Soviet republic’s ambitions to join the European Union to the path it claims triggered its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Early results showed the ruling Civil Contract party leading Russian-Armenian...
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South China Morning Post
June 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Inside a sparsely furnished 100 sq ft public housing flat in Hong Kong’s Hung Shui Kiu, a family of two lives with little more than a bunk bed, television stand, sofa and some donated clothes racks. This flat is the temporary home of 69-year-old resident surnamed Ho and her daughter. They were among the 5,000 Wang Fuk Court residents displaced by an inferno that ravaged the Tai Po estate on November 26 last year, killing 168 people. The pair had refrained from settling into the accommodation...
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