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ASEAN must take tough measures over Rohingya crisis: Mahathir

ASEAN must take tough measures over Rohingya crisis: Mahathir

-- 2018-12-18 16:42:41

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must take tough measures to put pressure on Myanmar to end atrocities against the Rohingya people. "W...

S Korean fire dept recovers bodies of three teens from motel

S Korean fire dept recovers bodies of three teens from motel

-- 2018-12-18 14:27:26

South Korean fire department officials say three teenage boys were presumed dead and seven other boys were being treated for injuries after they were found unconscious at a motel in the seaside town o...

Turkey will not let US hold it back in Syria

Turkey will not let US hold it back in Syria

-- 2018-12-17 17:27:48

Turkey pledged on Monday to press ahead with plans to target a Kurdish militia in northern Syria, brushing off what it said were American efforts to stymie Turkish military operations east of the Euph...

Car blast claims nine lives in Syrian city near Turkey border

Car blast claims nine lives in Syrian city near Turkey border

-- 2018-12-17 15:06:02

At least nine people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, in the latest such attack in towns under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, w...

1984 Sikh riots: Indian Congress leader Sajjan Kumar gets lifer

1984 Sikh riots: Indian Congress leader Sajjan Kumar gets lifer

-- 2018-12-17 13:06:40

An Indian court has sent a senior Congress party politician to jail for life in what is being seen as the most important conviction so far over the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Sajjan Kumar was found gui...

Aussie lawmaker quits over ‘website date’ on Hong Kong trip

Aussie lawmaker quits over ‘website date’ on Hong Kong trip

-- 2018-12-17 11:03:30

An Australian government lawmaker on Monday resigned from Cabinet over a media report he used a website to meet a younger woman while on a Hong Kong work trip — overshadowing the government post...

Saudi Arabia condemns US Senate’s ‘interference’

Saudi Arabia condemns US Senate’s ‘interference’

-- 2018-12-17 10:32:55

Saudi Arabia has denounced US Senate resolutions to end US military aid for a Riyadh-led war in Yemen and to blame the country's crown prince for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi f...

'Cyclone Phethai' intensifies, likely to hit India coast

'Cyclone Phethai' intensifies, likely to hit India coast

-- 2018-12-17 10:28:40

Coastal areas in India's Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are on high alert as the cyclonic storm developing over the Bay of Bengal is set to make landfall around Kakinada on Monday afternoon, according...

Denuclearisation at risk after US sanctions: N Korea

Denuclearisation at risk after US sanctions: N Korea

Reuters 2018-12-17 10:17:03

North Korea on Sunday condemned the US administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to "exchanges of fire" and that disarming Pyongyang could...

Japan explosion: 20 reported injured in Sapporo restaurant blast

Japan explosion: 20 reported injured in Sapporo restaurant blast

-- 2018-12-16 20:40:56

  A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, according to BBC. Initial reports on Japanese media suggested at least 20 people were injured, with ma...

Maldives police freeze bank accounts of ex-president

Maldives police freeze bank accounts of ex-president

-- 2018-12-16 19:10:41

MALE, Dec 16 (Reuters): Police in the Maldives said they have frozen the bank accounts of former president Abdulla Yameen as they investigate allegations by state bodies that he conducted "illicit" d...

Nepal to take new air travel convention

Nepal to take new air travel convention

-- 2018-12-16 15:45:02

KATHMANDU (Xinhua): Nepal started on Saturday the implementation of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, also known as the Montreal Convention 1999....

Afghanistan hosts Pakistan, China for talks on security and trade

Afghanistan hosts Pakistan, China for talks on security and trade

-- 2018-12-16 13:16:05

Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and China met in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday to discuss trade, development and solutions to end the region's relentless conflicts, reports Al Jazeera. Th...

Coal mine accident in China kills seven

Coal mine accident in China kills seven

-- 2018-12-16 13:08:15

BEIJING:  A coal mine accident in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing killed seven workers and injured three, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The workers at the Fengc...

Wickremesinghe reinstated as Sri Lanka’s PM

Wickremesinghe reinstated as Sri Lanka’s PM

-- 2018-12-16 12:50:31

Mr Wickremesinghe was sworn in by President Maithripala Sirisena, who sacked him on October 26, report agencies. United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Prime Minister o...

Kashmir fighting leaves 11 dead

Kashmir fighting leaves 11 dead

-- 2018-12-15 16:02:08

At least seven civilians were killed and nearly two dozens injured when government forces fired at anti-India protesters in disputed Kashmir following a gunbattle that left three rebels and a soldier...

Sri Lanka’s disputed PM Rajapaksa quits

Sri Lanka’s disputed PM Rajapaksa quits

-- 2018-12-15 14:53:11

Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned as Sri Lanka's prime minister, seven weeks after he was appointed in a surprise move that sparked a political crisis. Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former president, signed hi...

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Rafale jet deal; win for Modi

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Rafale jet deal; win for Modi

Reuters 2018-12-15 11:42:39

India’s top court rejected petitions on Friday seeking an investigation of fighter jet deal worth about $8.7 billion with France’s Dassault Aviation, handing a political victory to the rul...

11 die, 70 fall sick after eating rice at Indian temple

11 die, 70 fall sick after eating rice at Indian temple

-- 2018-12-15 11:25:58

Eleven people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating rice at a temple in India, police say. About 70 people have been admitted to hospital after eating the food following a ceremony i...

Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

-- 2018-12-15 10:27:00

Australia formally recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on...

Cyclone Owen tracking towards Queensland

Cyclone Owen tracking towards Queensland

-- 2018-12-14 18:19:24

Australian authorities have issued a warning about a powerful cyclone that is tracking towards the coast of Queensland. Cyclone Owen is moving slowly over waters off the Northern Territory with winds...

Seven die in Kashmir road crash

Seven die in Kashmir road crash

-- 2018-12-14 12:41:24

At least seven people were killed and three others injured after a vehicle carrying them fell into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Friday. The accident took place in mountainous Rea...

US moves closer to declaring genocide in Myanmar

US moves closer to declaring genocide in Myanmar

-- 2018-12-14 11:15:28

The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs has declared it genocide in Myanmar as its military and security forces unleashed a targeted campaign against the Rohingya people. Mentioning killing unarmed...

West Bank shootings kill three Palestinians, two Israelis

West Bank shootings kill three Palestinians, two Israelis

-- 2018-12-13 21:41:26

At least two Israelis have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in separate operations overnight on Wednesday. Israel's...

Sri Lanka’s court rules dissolving parliament as unconstitutional

Sri Lanka’s court rules dissolving parliament as unconstitutional

-- 2018-12-13 18:12:47

Sri Lanka's top court has ruled that the president's dissolution of parliament last month was unconstitutional, as a political crisis continues to grip the nation. President Maithripala Sirisena dism...

Second Canadian being probed for harming state security: China

Second Canadian being probed for harming state security: China

-- 2018-12-13 12:47:37

Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who worked with North Korea, is being investigated on suspicion of harming China’s state security, officials said, days after a former Canadian diplomat was...

As Modi takes a beating, small parties see big chance

As Modi takes a beating, small parties see big chance

Reuters 2018-12-13 10:49:20

After suffering an electoral thrashing at the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014, small regional and caste-based parties are back in the rec...

Hundreds in New Zealand hold vigil for murdered British tourist

Hundreds in New Zealand hold vigil for murdered British tourist

-- 2018-12-12 17:03:02

More than 1,000 people across New Zealand joined candlelight vigils on Wednesday to commemorate British tourist Grace Millane, who police say was murdered earlier this month. The 22-year-old tourist'...

China detains Canadian ex-diplomat; Huawei CFO secures bail

China detains Canadian ex-diplomat; Huawei CFO secures bail

-- 2018-12-12 11:23:29

A Canadian, reported to be a former diplomat, has been detained in China and his current employer says it is working for his prompt release. The International Crisis Group said it was "aware of repor...

India appoints new central bank governor

India appoints new central bank governor

-- 2018-12-11 20:24:08

India's government has appointed former finance ministry official Shaktikanta Das as head of the central bank, a day after Urjit Patel resigned from the post following a protracted spat with the gover...