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Image source, NurPhoto via Getty ImagesImage caption, A vegetable vendor waits for customers at a market in Kolkata, with a QR code displayed for digital payments By Soutik Biswas India correspondent Published 32 minutes ago For most Indians, paying by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become almost absurdly routine. Scan a QR code, tap a […]

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Chalong Riewrang told reporters he had “not intended to shoot his friend” ByJonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Published 1 hour ago Just three days after a 14-year-old opened fire at his school, killing eight people before shooting himself, another incident in the same province illustrated even more starkly Thailand’s troubled […]

play videoplay video Video Duration 24 minutes 58 seconds play-arrow24:58 Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim joins Sreenivasan Jain on justice, trade, and a middle power holding superpowers to account. Read more As rules-based order frays, the world’s middle powers are being forced to pick sides – or carve out a path of their own. Malaysian Prime […]

ListenListen (3 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Spanish soldiers patrol the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta [File: AFP] By Reuters and The Associated Press Published On 16 Aug 202616 Aug 2026 Moroccan security forces have arrested […]

play videoplay video Video Duration 27 minutes 30 seconds play-arrow27:30 Violence in the occupied West Bank has intensified under Israel’s far-right Netanyahu government. Read more Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank are trapping Palestinian families in their homes. The violence is taking place as Israel’s far-right government faces elections in October. Why are […]