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China tries rights lawyer in ‘sham’ case

China tries rights lawyer in ‘sham’ case

-- 2018-12-26 20:39:41

The subversion trial of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer in what Amnesty International called a ‘sham’ hearing ended on Wednesday without a verdict being announced. Wang Quanzhang,...

Afghanistan postpones presidential election

Afghanistan postpones presidential election

-- 2018-12-26 17:30:12

Afghanistan's election commission says the presidential vote scheduled for April will be postponed for several months to allow time to fix technical problems that surfaced during October's parliamenta...

Indonesian rescuers use drones as tsunami death toll hits 429

Indonesian rescuers use drones as tsunami death toll hits 429

-- 2018-12-26 11:45:01

Indonesian rescuers have used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people. Thick ash clouds continued to s...

Japan to restart commercial whaling in July

Japan to restart commercial whaling in July

-- 2018-12-26 11:37:41

Japan says it is to restart commercial whaling in July in a move that is likely to draw international criticism. It said it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body ta...

Three die in China chemical plant blast

Three die in China chemical plant blast

-- 2018-12-26 11:07:51

A blast at a chemical plant in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region has killed three people and severely injured six, the official Tianshan news website reported on Wednesday. The ex...

Two dead, 11 wounded in Iraq car bomb in Iraq

Two dead, 11 wounded in Iraq car bomb in Iraq

-- 2018-12-25 19:19:45

At least two people were killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, a former Islamic State stronghold, the military said. Tal Afar, about 80 km (50 miles)...

Gunmen kill at least 28 in raid on Afghan government building

Gunmen kill at least 28 in raid on Afghan government building

Reuters 2018-12-25 10:21:43

Gunmen who raided a government building in the Afghan capital killed at least 28 people - mostly government employees - and wounded more than 20 others in a seven-hour standoff with police that ended...

Israel to hold elections in April

Israel to hold elections in April

-- 2018-12-24 20:35:53

Israel is set to hold a general election in April, the ruling coalition said on Monday. The political partners decided to call the poll after failing to resolve a dispute over a draft conscription la...

Tsunami kills at least 373 in Indonesia

Tsunami kills at least 373 in Indonesia

-- 2018-12-24 19:54:48

The tsunami in Indonesia killed at least 373 people and injured more than 1,400 on the islands of Java and Sumatra, an official said on Monday.  “1,459 people are injured, while 128 remain...

Nawaz Sharif gets seven years in jail

Nawaz Sharif gets seven years in jail

-- 2018-12-24 17:27:41

A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Monday jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seven years on graft charges he says were politically motivated. The court found the three-time prime ministe...

India rescuers step up efforts to save trapped coal miners

India rescuers step up efforts to save trapped coal miners

-- 2018-12-24 15:05:19

Rescuers in India say they are hoping for a miracle to save 15 workers trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. The men were trapped 11 days ago when sudden floodin...

Myanmar court due to hear appeal in case of jailed Reuters reporters

Myanmar court due to hear appeal in case of jailed Reuters reporters

-- 2018-12-24 14:00:35

A Myanmar court is on Monday due to hear an argument in the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe...

Myanmar court due to hear jailed reporters' appeal

Myanmar court due to hear jailed reporters' appeal

Reuters 2018-12-24 13:09:27

A Myanmar court is on Monday due to hear an argument in the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe...

Rush to save survivors as Indonesia tsunami kills 280

Rush to save survivors as Indonesia tsunami kills 280

Reuters 2018-12-24 09:58:29

The death toll from a tsunami that hit the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra after the Anak Krakatau volcano erupted rose to at least 280 on Monday, officials said, as rescuers using heavy machin...

Thailand sends 15 illegal Myanmar migrants back home

Thailand sends 15 illegal Myanmar migrants back home

-- 2018-12-23 12:18:20

Fifteen Myanmar illegal migrant workers have been sent back home by the Thai authorities as the workers' border passes have expired with no other official documents in possession, said the Information...

Volcano-triggered tsunami kills 220 in Indonesia

Volcano-triggered tsunami kills 220 in Indonesia

-- 2018-12-23 09:57:39

More than 220 people have been killed and 843 injured after a tsunami hit coastal towns on Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials and media said on Sunday. Hundreds of homes and other buildings were &ld...

Myanmar pledges to continue peace process

Myanmar pledges to continue peace process

-- 2018-12-22 21:16:36

YANGON, Dec 22 (Xinhua): Myanmar's National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) has pledged to continue to strive towards the participation of eight remaining non-ceasefire signatory ethnic armed o...

Iran executes businessman for economic crimes

Iran executes businessman for economic crimes

-- 2018-12-22 15:21:16

Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption tha...

Nepal bus crash kills 21

Nepal bus crash kills 21

-- 2018-12-22 13:52:47

A bus carrying college students and their instructors back from a botany field trip drove off a highway in a mountainous area on Friday, leaving 21 dead and 15 injured, police said. The bus plunged d...

Britain says Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar are innocent

Britain says Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar are innocent

Reuters 2018-12-22 12:54:32

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act were innocent and that Britain had s...

Japan accuses South Korea of 'locking radar' on Japanese plane

Japan accuses South Korea of 'locking radar' on Japanese plane

-- 2018-12-21 16:43:59

Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya protested to South Korea after a South Korean destroyer locked its targeting radar on an Japanese surveillance plane, he said on Friday. Iwaya, speaking to rep...

Vladimir Putin hints he may marry again

Vladimir Putin hints he may marry again

-- 2018-12-21 16:13:06

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would probably have to get married again, but did not say to whom. Putin, 66, who jealously protects his privacy and that of his close family, was...

Migrant workers' struggles push Uzbekistan to open up

Migrant workers' struggles push Uzbekistan to open up

Reuters 2018-12-21 13:55:30

Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he and others came back as the Russian economy flound...

US to withdraw more than 5,000 troops from Afghanistan

US to withdraw more than 5,000 troops from Afghanistan

Reuters 2018-12-21 11:57:16

President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more than 5,000 of the 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, a US official said on Thursday, in the latest sign Trump’s patience is thinning with Americ...

Hundreds of South Koreans sue govt over wartime labour

Hundreds of South Koreans sue govt over wartime labour

-- 2018-12-20 12:48:27

Hundreds of South Koreans have sued the government for compensation over their forced labour at Japanese firms during World War Two, representatives said on Thursday, in a fresh twist to one of severa...

‘Full’ withdrawal of US troops from Syria likely

‘Full’ withdrawal of US troops from Syria likely

-- 2018-12-19 20:57:13

The US is preparing to withdraw all its troops from Syria, US media are quoting defence officials as saying. One official told CNN that the planning was for a "full" and "rapid" withdrawal. Presiden...

Nepal stops water project contractors from leaving country

Nepal stops water project contractors from leaving country

-- 2018-12-19 19:06:23

Nepal's government has stopped eight Italian contractors from leaving the Himalayan country in an effort to complete a critical but much delayed water supply project for the capital. Nepalese officia...

China ‘detains third Canadian citizen’

China ‘detains third Canadian citizen’

-- 2018-12-19 15:07:06

A third Canadian citizen has been detained in China, Canada’s National Post newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing the Canadian foreign ministry. China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hu...

India arrests journo for calling state leader a Modi puppet

India arrests journo for calling state leader a Modi puppet

-- 2018-12-19 14:11:01

An Indian television journalist has been detained for criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on social media under laws intended to ensure national security, leading to protests in th...

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts over Myanmar army links

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts over Myanmar army links

-- 2018-12-19 11:47:44

Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and link...