Jimmy Lai is an open critic of the Chinese Communist Party and was first arrested in 2020. Since then, he has been in jail, either on remand or serving five separate sentences.
As firefighters began battling to contain the inferno, residents made desperate calls to emergency services. Others begged for their pets to be saved, and elderly people in wheelchairs struggled to escape.
The ED probe found scamsters pretending to be directors of shell firms & forging CA forms to route funds abroad via ICICI Bank accounts through identity fraud & the misuse of regulatory gaps.
Dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants in Singapore & Hong Kong are subvariants of JN.1, which is a sub-lineage of the BA.2.86 omicron variant first seen in Denmark in July, 2023.
A total of 47 activists were arrested & charged in 2021 with conspiracy to commit subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law; some jailed up to 10 yrs.
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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