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70 relay teams qualify for World Athletics Championships in Guangzhou event
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
PanOrient News
TOKYO: World Athletics has announced that a further 30 teams have qualified for relay events at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo later this year following the final day of action at the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25 on Sunday.
Six teams in each of the women’s and men’s 4x100m and 4x400m plus the mixed 4x400m booked their places for Tokyo on Day 2. The first 40 qualified teams were confirmed on Saturday and the final 30 on Sunday, following a second World...
Turkish defense companies eye Japanese market
Monday, June 9, 2025
PanOrient News
TOKYO: Turkish defense companies such as Otokar and Nurol Makina are eyeing the Japanese market as Japan increases its defense budget.
Global land systems manufacturer Otokar participated in DSEI (Defense and Security Equipment International) Japan 2025 in Chiba between May 21-23 and exhibited armored vehicles COBRA II, equipped with the KESK?N Turret and ARMA 8x8, equipped with the 30 mm MIZRAK Turret at its stand.
Sedef Vehbi, Otokar’s Military Cluster Head, said: ...
Myanmar government official refutes claim child was arrested
Saturday, June 7, 2025
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YANGON: An official from Myanmar’s Social Welfare Ministry has refuted claims that a child was arrested after the parents were detained during a search for “assassins and their accomplices.”
Reports stated that the child had been arrested along with the parents, but the official from the Social Welfare Ministry explained that the parents had been detained for questioning and, as the child was alone, the child was taken into protective custody.
“If both the paren...
UK backs Morocco’s proposal for settling Western Sahara dispute
Monday, June 2, 2025
(Moroccan Foreign Ministry)RABAT- (PanOrient News): The United Kingdom says it “considers Morocco’s autonomy proposal submitted in 2007 as the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting resolution of the dispute” over the Moroccan Sahara.
This position was expressed in a Joint Communiqu? signed in Rabat on Sunday by the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
The document states that London “recognizes the importance of the question of ...
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