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Indian Muslims shaken by citizenship test

Indian Muslims shaken by citizenship test

-- 2018-07-29 09:46:51

Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he is a citizen of the Hi...

Imran Khan to launch coalition talks Saturday

Imran Khan to launch coalition talks Saturday

-- 2018-07-28 17:31:01

Pakistan’s likely new prime minister Imran Khan is expected to launch coalition talks on Saturday with smaller parties after the electoral commission announced long-delayed full results of an el...

Japan braces for strong typhoon

Japan braces for strong typhoon

-- 2018-07-28 15:29:04

More than 100 flights were cancelled in Japan and residents already reeling from deadly floods sand-bagged rivers and prepared for more evacuations as a powerful typhoon neared on Saturday. Typhoon J...

37 die in India after monsoon rains trigger house collapses

37 die in India after monsoon rains trigger house collapses

-- 2018-07-28 14:19:03

At least 37 people have been killed this week as monsoon rains triggered house collapses and flooded wide swaths of land in northern India, officials said Saturday. Weather officials have predicted m...

Pakistan's Imran Khan needs coalition to form government

Pakistan's Imran Khan needs coalition to form government

-- 2018-07-27 16:53:28

Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician comfortably ahead in Pakistan elections, but will need a coalition to form the government. His party bagged 110 seats, 27 short of majority mark 137 in 269 seat...

South Korea sends jets to intercept Chinese warplane

South Korea sends jets to intercept Chinese warplane

-- 2018-07-27 16:23:50

South Korea said on Friday it had scrambled military jets to intercept a Chinese military aircraft that entered the South's air defence territory, reports Reuters. The Chinese plane spent more than f...

Australian woman guilty in headless torso murder

Australian woman guilty in headless torso murder

-- 2018-07-27 16:14:26

An Australian woman who dumped her partner's dismembered body next to a road and set it alight has been found guilty of murder. Lindy Williams, 60, was sentenced on Friday to spend a maximum of life...

Nepal holds first digital Cabinet meet

Nepal holds first digital Cabinet meet

-- 2018-07-27 14:31:34

Nepal government held its first digital Cabinet meeting by using laptop computers in the cabinet on Thursday, as part of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s commitment to go paperless. This was th...

Japan braces for category 4 typhoon 'Jongdari'

Japan braces for category 4 typhoon 'Jongdari'

-- 2018-07-27 14:18:43

Outlying Japanese islands were pelted by intense rain on Friday as a powerful typhoon bore down, threatening the main islands with heavy rain at the weekend and putting areas already ravaged by deadly...

North Korea returns remains of US soldiers

North Korea returns remains of US soldiers

-- 2018-07-27 10:28:18

North Korea transferred 55 cases carrying the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War, the White House said on Thursday, a first step by Pyongyang to implement an agreement made in a landmark sum...

Tehran will respond to any hostile action

Tehran will respond to any hostile action

-- 2018-07-26 22:36:16

An Iranian military commander said on Thursday that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the US president as using the language of "night clubs and gambli...

Pakistan election: Imran Khan claims victory amid rigging allegations

Pakistan election: Imran Khan claims victory amid rigging allegations

-- 2018-07-26 18:37:13

Former cricketer Imran Khan has claimed victory in Pakistan's election, amid accusations of vote rigging by rivals. In a television address, he said: "We were successful and we were given a mandate."...

West Bengal step closer to becoming ‘Bangla’

West Bengal step closer to becoming ‘Bangla’

-- 2018-07-26 16:16:51

West Bengal is on track to be renamed ‘Bangla’ with all parties in the state approving the name-change in the assembly on Thursday. The new name needs the centre's clearance, according to...

Vietnam jet fighter crashes, killing two

Vietnam jet fighter crashes, killing two

-- 2018-07-26 14:13:32

A military jet fighter crashed in northern Vietnam on Thursday, killing two servicemen on board, a local official said. “It crashed in a hilly area in Nghia Dan district around lunch time,&rdqu...

IS attacks in southwest Syria leave over 200 dead

IS attacks in southwest Syria leave over 200 dead

-- 2018-07-26 12:17:43

Islamic State militants killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of south-western Syria on Wednesday, local officials and a war monitor said, in the group’s...

Pakistan’s Khan leads elections in early counting

Pakistan’s Khan leads elections in early counting

-- 2018-07-26 10:16:38

Pakistani authorities said on Thursday full results of a general election would be delayed as cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in a partial count that opponents said was rigged. The part...

Acting New Zealand PM tells Australia to change flag

Acting New Zealand PM tells Australia to change flag

-- 2018-07-25 19:40:16

New Zealand’s Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters has called on Australia to change its flag, accusing its neighbour of copying New Zealand’s own design - a jab at a time of testy relatio...

Thai cave boys ordained as Buddhist novices

Thai cave boys ordained as Buddhist novices

-- 2018-07-25 16:47:31

Eleven boys from a football team, rescued from a flooded Thai cave, were ordained as Buddhist novices on Wednesday. The Buddhist ordination ceremony was held at a temple in Chiang Rai in memory of a...

Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan votes in election

Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan votes in election

-- 2018-07-25 13:42:42

A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people near a polling centre as Pakistanis voted on Wednesday in a knife-edge general election pitting cricket hero Imran Khan against the party of jailed ex-Prime...

Blast near Pakistan polling station kills 20

Blast near Pakistan polling station kills 20

-- 2018-07-25 13:16:10

A blast targeting a police van killed more than 20 people in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said, as the South Asian nation goes to the vote to choos...

38 die in multiple attacks in Syria

38 die in multiple attacks in Syria

-- 2018-07-25 13:02:42

Multiple attacks killed at least 38 people and wounded 37 others in Sweida and villages northeast of the Syrian city, the head of the health authority told state-run Ikhbariyah TV. A suicide bomber b...

Suicide blast causes deaths in Syria’s Sweida

Suicide blast causes deaths in Syria’s Sweida

-- 2018-07-25 11:37:30

A suicide attack in the Syrian city of Sweida caused deaths and injuries, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on its Telegram feed on Wednesday, citing its correspondent. Reuters reported quot...

Pakistan votes in knife-edge election

Pakistan votes in knife-edge election

-- 2018-07-25 11:00:55

Pakistanis began voting on after an election campaign overshadowed by concerns of manipulation and violence. Nearly 106 million people are registered to vote for members of the lower house of parliam...

Thai cave boys prepare to be ordained as monks

Thai cave boys prepare to be ordained as monks

-- 2018-07-24 18:45:28

The young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand took part in a Buddhist ceremony Tuesday as they prepared to be ordained to become Buddhi...

Judge Tahira Safdar to head Balochistan high court

Judge Tahira Safdar to head Balochistan high court

-- 2018-07-24 16:46:02

The chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court has appointed the first woman chief justice to Balochistan province's highest court. Saqib Nisar announced Monday the appointment of prominent judge Tahi...

Hundreds go missing after hydropower dam collapses in Laos

Hundreds go missing after hydropower dam collapses in Laos

-- 2018-07-24 15:28:42

At least 100 people are missing after a hydropower dam in Laos collapsed, local media reported on Tuesday. Officials have brought boats to help evacuate people in San Sai district of Attapeu province...

Vietnam’s Son Tinh flood toll reaches 27

Vietnam’s Son Tinh flood toll reaches 27

-- 2018-07-24 12:17:27

The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm Son Tinh rose to 27 on Tuesday, and seven people are still missing, the government’s Disaster Management Authority said. Wi...

N Korea 'begins dismantling' rocket testing facilities

N Korea 'begins dismantling' rocket testing facilities

-- 2018-07-24 11:59:23

North Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west. Satellite images of the Sohae station seen by US-based monitoring group 38 North suggest Py...

Gunmen kill four in Afghanistan mosque

Gunmen kill four in Afghanistan mosque

-- 2018-07-23 19:26:22

Gunmen opened fire on worshippers inside a mosque in eastern Nangarhar province, killing four people, according to a provincial official. Attahullah Khogyani, the provincial governor's spokesman, sai...

India residential building fire kills five

India residential building fire kills five

-- 2018-07-23 15:29:52

A fire at a residential building early Monday killed five people in northern India, police said. The fire broke out from an apartment building early in the morning in Mandi district of Himachal Prades...