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Taliban attacks kill 30 security forces in western Afghanistan

Taliban attacks kill 30 security forces in western Afghanistan

-- 2018-11-15 15:41:43

Major assaults by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah bordering Iran, mounted with the aim of weakening the government’s grip on the region, have killed at least...

16 die in Afghanistan gun battle

16 die in Afghanistan gun battle

-- 2018-11-15 15:16:20

Fighting between security forces and Taliban militants have left 16 fighters from both sides dead in Qala-e-Zal district of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, an army spokesman in the north...

Malaysia charges wife of former PM Najib with two counts of corruption

Malaysia charges wife of former PM Najib with two counts of corruption

Reuters 2018-11-15 14:27:47

Malaysia on Thursday accused Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, on charges of soliciting and receiving bribes involving a sum of 189 million ringgit ($45.12 million) from a...

Lion Air crash victim's fiancée takes wedding photos alone

Lion Air crash victim's fiancée takes wedding photos alone

-- 2018-11-14 22:07:31

An Indonesian woman whose fiancé was on a Lion Air flight which crashed into the sea has gone ahead with her wedding pictures alone, reports BBC. Intan Syari and Rio Nanda Pratama were due to...

Mike Pence expresses strongest condemnation over Rohingya issue

Mike Pence expresses strongest condemnation over Rohingya issue

-- 2018-11-14 18:03:34

US Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration’s strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday. Pence also told Myanmar leader Aung S...

Mike Pence urges Suu Kyi to pardon Reuters journos

Mike Pence urges Suu Kyi to pardon Reuters journos

-- 2018-11-14 14:04:02

US vice president Mike Pence pressed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “multiple times” on Wednesday to pardon two Reuters journalists jailed in her country, a senior White House official sa...

Sri Lankan parliament passes no-confidence motion against PM

Sri Lankan parliament passes no-confidence motion against PM

-- 2018-11-14 12:43:59

Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa amid raucous opposition on Wednesday, throwing the country deeper into crisis. Raja...

Singapore PM Lee hints at early election next year

Singapore PM Lee hints at early election next year

-- 2018-11-11 11:33:07

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong suggested on Sunday a general election may be called next year, more than a year before his government’s mandate ends, as the city-state braces for growi...

Heavy rains, flooding kill 12 in Jordan

Heavy rains, flooding kill 12 in Jordan

-- 2018-11-10 18:44:28

Twelve people died in heavy rains and flooding in parts of Jordan on Friday and authorities evacuated foreign tourists from the ancient city of Petra and other popular destinations, officials said on...

China coalmine disaster leaves 21 dead

China coalmine disaster leaves 21 dead

-- 2018-11-10 17:35:56

Twenty-one miners, who were trapped after a coalmine accident that occurred a month ago in China’s Shangdong province, have died. Rescuers managed to rescue only one of the 22 miners trapped, r...

Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament

Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament

-- 2018-11-10 17:19:23

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved the country's parliament on Friday night and called for snap polls on January 5 in a move that will likely deepen the country’s political cris...

Rains, floods claim eight lives in Jordan

Rains, floods claim eight lives in Jordan

-- 2018-11-10 12:04:51

Heavy rains and flooding killed at least eight people in Jordan and forced authorities to evacuate more than 3,700 tourists from the ancient city of Petra on Friday, officials said. The visitors were...

Philippine court orders arrest of ex-first lady Imelda Marcos for graft

Philippine court orders arrest of ex-first lady Imelda Marcos for graft

-- 2018-11-09 17:13:20

The Philippines’ anti-corruption court on Friday ordered the arrest of former first lady Imelda Marcos after finding her guilty on seven counts of graft during the two-decade rule of her husband...

Seven die, 11 suffer injuries in South Korea fire

Seven die, 11 suffer injuries in South Korea fire

-- 2018-11-09 14:05:19

At least seven people were killed and 11 others injured on Friday in a fire that broke out at a dormitory-style housing facility in South Korea, where each rented room stands side by side. The blaz...

Deadly smog returns to Delhi

Deadly smog returns to Delhi

-- 2018-11-08 14:23:22

Air pollution in the Indian capital Delhi has risen to hazardous levels after firecrackers were set off to celebrate Diwali despite a court ban. Residents awoke on Thursday to find the city blanketed...

At least 13 die in Tajik prison riot

At least 13 die in Tajik prison riot

-- 2018-11-08 14:20:58

Security forces in Tajikistan have killed at least 13 inmates at a prison in the city of Khujand where a riot broke out late on Wednesday, three security sources told Reuters news agency on Thursday....

Australia launches $1.5 billion Pacific fund to counter China's influence

Australia launches $1.5 billion Pacific fund to counter China's influence

-- 2018-11-08 13:59:09

Australia will offer Pacific countries up to A$3 billion ($2.18 billion) in grants and cheap loans to build infrastructure, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, as Canberra seeks to counter...

Pakistan frees Asia Bibi after blasphemy acquittal

Pakistan frees Asia Bibi after blasphemy acquittal

-- 2018-11-08 12:39:45

A Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row has been freed from prison, her lawyer says. Some reports say Asia Bibi has boarded a plane but its destinat...

Eight Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

Eight Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

-- 2018-11-07 16:02:24

An Afghan official says the Taliban killed eight policemen and wounded three in an attack on two checkpoints in western Farah province. A member of the provincial council, Dadullah Qani, says the att...

Crashed Indonesia jet was cleared to fly despite airspeed problems

Crashed Indonesia jet was cleared to fly despite airspeed problems

-- 2018-11-06 19:28:08

Indonesian accident investigators said an airspeed indicator of a Boeing Co 737 MAX plane that crashed last week was damaged for its last four flights, but US authorities responded cautiously to sugge...

ADB Knowledge Forum kicks off in Manila

ADB Knowledge Forum kicks off in Manila

-- 2018-11-06 18:41:35

The first ADB Knowledge Forum kicked off on Tuesday at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila with participation of more than 150 representatives from multilateral organisations, fina...

5.5 magnitude quake batters southern Philippines

5.5 magnitude quake batters southern Philippines

-- 2018-11-06 13:50:35

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 rattled the southern Philippine Davao Occidental province on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the ear...

Philippine police colonel on Duterte drug list dies in 'shootout'

Philippine police colonel on Duterte drug list dies in 'shootout'

-- 2018-11-06 12:14:27

A police colonel on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s wanted list for alleged drug links was killed in a reported shootout with police during an anti-drug operation, a senior police officia...

Facebook should do more to help prevent violence in Myanmar: Report

Facebook should do more to help prevent violence in Myanmar: Report

-- 2018-11-06 10:15:50

Facebook said Monday that an independent report it commissioned found the company hasn't always done enough to prevent its platform from being used to spread hate speech that has fuelled deadly violen...

Indonesia jet crash: Tearful relatives of victims demand answers

Indonesia jet crash: Tearful relatives of victims demand answers

-- 2018-11-05 17:00:20

Relatives of the victims of recent Indonesia jet crash have demanded answers as to why the plane was passed fit to fly and called for no let up in the search for loved ones. They raised the questions...

Jailed Reuters reporters lodge appeal against conviction

Jailed Reuters reporters lodge appeal against conviction

-- 2018-11-05 15:36:15

Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal on Monday against their conviction on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act. The appeal cit...

Iran will sell oil despite US sanctions, says Rouhani

Iran will sell oil despite US sanctions, says Rouhani

Reuters 2018-11-05 12:49:22

Iran will sell its oil and break sanctions reimposed by the United States on its vital energy and banking sectors, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told economists at a meeting broadcast live on state...

Suu Kyi's party suffers setback in Myanmar by-elections

Suu Kyi's party suffers setback in Myanmar by-elections

Reuters 2018-11-05 10:52:50

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) expects to have won only seven of 13 seats up for grabs in by-elections, a spokesman said on Sunday, conceding that Myanmar’s ruling...

Oil prices fall as US grants Iran sanction waivers to major importers

Oil prices fall as US grants Iran sanction waivers to major importers

-- 2018-11-05 10:36:53

Oil prices fell on Monday as the start to US sanctions against Iran’s fuel exports was softened by waivers that will allow major buyers to still import Iranian crude, at least temporarily. Fron...

Sons of slain Saudi journalist appeal for return of his body

Sons of slain Saudi journalist appeal for return of his body

-- 2018-11-05 10:18:08

The sons of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Sunday issued an appeal for the return of their father’s body and said they wanted to return to Saudi Arabia to bury him. In an interview w...