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August 19, 2024
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Sudeshna Basu always considered Kolkata, the vibrant state capital of West Bengal, a safe haven for women like herself. But on a recent evening, the 52-year-old Sanskrit lecturer found her sense of security shattered when an autorickshaw driver brazenly catcalled her on her way home from work.
Orangutans are critically endangered, according to the WWF, with habitat loss due to logging and agricultural expansion – particularly palm oil plantations.
SINTRA, Portugal (AP) — The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It’s a long rope that, when pulled, rings a literal bell on the roof that lets him know someone is outside the mountainside mansion that his great-grandfather built in 1914 as a monument to privacy.
Each blame the other for the early morning incident at Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands.
Japan's national and Tokyo governments are seeking a 700 billion yen ($4.7 billion) valuation for Tokyo Metro as they prepare to list the subway operator as early as October-end, three sources said, in what would be the nation's biggest IPO in roughly six years.
BEIJING — China's Coast Guard said a Philippine vessel that had ignored its repeated warnings "deliberately collided" with a Chinese vessel in an "unprofessional and dangerous" manner, according to statements on Aug 19.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol offered a dramatically different vision of Korean unification in his Liberation Day speech on August 15, an annual observance in South Korea that marks the end of Japanese colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula.