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A Tibetan from Hunsur attempted to self-immolate.
A guy named Lobsang Tenzin,60, of ‘I’ Village attempted to self-immolate on Sunday morning in Hunsur, South India but was unsuccessful because his daughter smothered the flames. He attempted self-immolation because he was dissatisfied with the behavior of members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile. According to Voice of America, Lobsang Tenzin’s principal motivation for…
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Hungary’s debt-trap strategy devised by China
Tens of thousands rallying in Hungary against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing government for the proposed Fudan University (Shanghai) campus in Budapest. Fudan University (Shanghai) is a Chinese university. Furthermore, there is a legitimate concern that Hungary’s capital city is rapidly falling into China’s debt trap as a result of its shady construction initiatives. So…
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China is completing final tests on a new rail line in Tibet near the Arunachal border.
According to a Chinese journalist on Twitter, China is conducting final trials on its new high-speed train line connecting Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, with Nyingchi, a town adjacent to India’s Tuting sector in the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. The Beijing-based journalist revealed that China spent $4.8 billion on the 435-kilometer rail route by posting…
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Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, 7 missing in Nepal
Heavy rains prompted flash floods that washed away a remote mountain camp in Bhutan on Wednesday, killing ten people and wounding five others, while storms in neighboring Nepal left seven others missing, according to authorities. When the floodwaters hit soon after midnight, the Bhutanese villagers who had been collecting cordyceps, a fungus used in medicine,…
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Israel’s new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, takes the oath.
In a seismic shift in the country’s tumultuous politics, a loose coalition of Israeli parties dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, and created a new government on Sunday. Naftali Bennett, a right-wing Jewish nationalist, and former tech millionaire were set to lead the eight-party coalition, which was united only by their dislike for…
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China has expressed displeasure with the impending G7 summit.
China warned Group of Seven leaders on Sunday that the days of “small” groups of countries deciding the fate of the globe were long gone, slamming the world’s wealthiest democracies as they sought to act in concert to confront Beijing’s might. Along with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, which ended the Cold…
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Archaeologists find unbroken chicken egg 1000 years old.
The phrase “reality is stranger than fiction” is commonly used. Archaeologists in Israel recently discovered proof of this. They uncovered a 1,000-year-old chicken egg that had not been broken. Allow that to sink in. This amazing finding was uncovered by a team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The organization also shared a…
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China opposes new U.S. bill that supports Tibet
The US Senate decisively passed a bipartisan bill with a 68-32 vote to oppose China’s growing threat and to defend Buddhist religious freedom on the reincarnation of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The US Innovation and Competition Act (also known as the Endless Frontier Act), which allots $250 billion through investments in science in…
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El Salvador is the first country to recognize bitcoin as a legal tender.
El Salvador became the world’s first country to adopt bitcoin as legal cash on Wednesday. Following a bill that legitimized cryptocurrencies as currency, President Nayib Bukele stated that the Central American nation will legally recognize it. According to the law, 70% of El Salvador’s population lacks access to traditional financial services, therefore the decision to…
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South African woman gives birth to 10 babies
A South African mother, Gosiame Thamara Sithole,37, has given birth to ten children, setting a new world record. Yes, you heard it right TEN children. Decuplets astounded Gosiame Thamara Sithole’s spouse as tests revealed only eight in the womb. “There are seven boys and three girls in the group. I am content. I’m a sensitive…