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Anique Butt
Articles and reporting by Anique Butt for The Asia Tribune.
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Pakistan Launches Multi-Purpose Digital Center Empowering Young Women
Lahore, Pakistan – In a significant step toward gender-inclusive digital development, the Department of Digital Media at the University of the Punjab,...
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Pakistani Student Secures World Distinction in Islamic Law at University of London
Lahore, Pakistan – In a remarkable display of academic excellence, Rao Hamza Ali Khan has been awarded a World Distinction in Islamic Law in the Unive...
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Japan to deploy missiles to island near Taiwan by 2031, says defence minister
Japan will deploy missiles to a tiny island near Taiwan within five years, its defence minister has said, in a move that is likely to inflame tensions...
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Hillary Clinton testifies that she has no information on Epstein’s criminal activities in House oversight hearing
Before Hillary Clinton’s testimony began, House oversight committee chair James Comer repeatedly said that the probe was not partisan in nature. When ...
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Zelenskyy urges Trump to visit Ukraine in speech marking invasion anniversary
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to Donald Trump to visit Kyiv, in a video address on the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, ...
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At first Board of Peace meeting, PM Shehbaz calls for end to ceasefire violations in Gaza for lasting peace
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stressed on Thursday the need for an end to ceasefire violations in Gaza, saying that it was “very important” for long-l...
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Tarique Rahman sworn in as Bangladeshi prime minister
Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in, sealing a dramatic comeback for the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) and formally closing the tur...
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Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south
Silicon Valley tech billionaires will land in Delhi this week for an AI summit hosted by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, where leaders of the g...
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The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell
Four young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring. When the call finally comes, their friend’s voice is crackly and hard to make out, but t...
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Excruciating tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe, study finds
An excruciatingly painful tropical disease called chikungunya can now be transmitted by mosquitoes across most of Europe, a study has found. Higher te...
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Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding
More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of the legal de...
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Study finds global increase in hot, dry days ideal for wildfires
The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy – ideal to spark extreme wildfires – has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the gl...
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Avalanche risks remain high in California after deaths of skiers
Avalanche risks remain high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California this week, following the deadliest snowslide the region has seen in ...
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Nottingham Forest dominate Fenerbahce to give Vítor Pereira perfect start
For Nottingham Forest, and particularly Vítor Pereira and the 1,200 supporters who signed up to this trip, an evening in Istanbul they will not forget...
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MPs in call to halt Drax’s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts
Ed Miliband is under pressure from MPs to suspend subsidies worth £2m a day paid to the owner of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire after court d...
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USA roar back from brink to beat Canada in overtime and claim Olympic women’s ice hockey gold
Rescued from the brink of defeat by a deft touch from their captain in her final Olympics, the US beat Canada in Milan on Thursday to claim the women’...
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Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’
Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe’s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from “digital abuse” during France’s presi...
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TV set is most popular way to watch YouTube in UK, study finds
The television has replaced laptops, tablets and smartphones as the most common device for UK viewers to watch YouTube at home, according to data conf...
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