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India braces for more storms as toll mounts to 125

India braces for more storms as toll mounts to 125

-- 2018-05-04 11:59:19

At least 125 people are now reported to have died in fierce dust storms in northern India, with officials warning of more bad weather to come. High-speed winds and lightning have devastated many vill...

What could Iran do if nuclear deal fails?

What could Iran do if nuclear deal fails?

Reuters 2018-05-04 10:17:11

President Donald Trump is expected to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement on May 12. Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with China, France, Germany, Russia, Bri...

Gunfights leave 18 militants dead in Afghanistan

Gunfights leave 18 militants dead in Afghanistan

-- 2018-05-03 14:07:22

At least 18 militants and three security force members were killed in separate gunfights in two northern Afghan provinces, authorities said on Thursday. In Badakhshan province, three security force...

Mahathir under probe for 'fake news'

Mahathir under probe for 'fake news'

-- 2018-05-03 14:05:03

Malaysian authorities are investigating opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad under an anti-fake news law over claims that his plane was sabotaged in the run up to a general election next week, police sa...

Dust storms kill nearly 100 in India

Dust storms kill nearly 100 in India

-- 2018-05-03 14:00:54

At least 95 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The storms on Wednesday disrupted electricity, uprooted...

India SC voices concern over Taj Mahal colour change

India SC voices concern over Taj Mahal colour change

-- 2018-05-02 16:12:07

India’s Supreme Court has instructed the government to seek foreign help to fix what it described as a worrying change in colour at the Taj Mahal. “Even if you have the expertise, you are...

Armenian protesters block routes to capital, road to airport

Armenian protesters block routes to capital, road to airport

-- 2018-05-02 16:03:14

Armenian protesters blocked some routes into the capital, Yerevan, and a road to the airport on Wednesday after Nikol Pashinyan, blocked in parliament from becoming prime minister, announced a nationw...

5.2 quake jolts Iran

5.2 quake jolts Iran

-- 2018-05-02 13:54:58

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook Sisakht city in Iran’s western Kohgiluye va Boyerahmad province at 10:38 local time (0608 GMT) on Wednesday. The epicentre, with a depth o...

Duterte’s order on ‘contractualisation’ upsets Filipino workers

Duterte’s order on ‘contractualisation’ upsets Filipino workers

-- 2018-05-02 13:04:11

Philippine labour groups expressed disappointment on Wednesday over a long-awaited executive order by President Rodrigo Duterte to crack down on short-term hiring, saying it offered nothing new and le...

Economist Ashok Mitra passes away

Economist Ashok Mitra passes away

-- 2018-05-02 10:51:20

Marxist economist Ashok Mitra, who served as finance minister of the India’s West Bengal state, has died at 90. Mitra, who took the finance portfolio after Jyoti Basu formed the first Left Fron...

Children, women among 23 die in Syria airstrikes

Children, women among 23 die in Syria airstrikes

-- 2018-05-01 20:59:13

Syrian state media and a war monitoring group say airstrikes in Islamic State-held territory in northeastern Syria have killed at least 23 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rig...

Myanmar military assures UN of 'harsh action' on sexual assault

Myanmar military assures UN of 'harsh action' on sexual assault

-- 2018-05-01 19:11:30

Myanmar’s military has assured the United Nations of “harsh” action against perpetrators of sexual violence in Rakhine, state media reported on Tuesday, as UN envoys travelled to the...

Koreas start fulfilling summit pledge

Koreas start fulfilling summit pledge

Reuters 2018-05-01 14:44:40

North and South Korea began dismantling loudspeakers that blared propaganda across their heavily fortified border on Tuesday, South Korea’s defence ministry said, fulfilling a promise made at la...

Jeddah suicide bomber was Indian, confirms S Arabia after DNA

Jeddah suicide bomber was Indian, confirms S Arabia after DNA

-- 2018-05-01 12:39:44

  New Delhi: The suicide bomber who attacked the US Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah two years ago was an Indian national, confirmed Saudi Arabia on the basis of DNA tests. A senior securi...

Filipino workers slam contractualisation in May Day protests

Filipino workers slam contractualisation in May Day protests

-- 2018-05-01 12:33:58

Thousands of workers and activists in the Philippines marched on Tuesday in a May Day rally to demonstrate against what they said was President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to keep a campaign promi...

Pakistan set to launch 'ambitious' space programme to keep an eye on India

Pakistan set to launch 'ambitious' space programme to keep an eye on India

-- 2018-05-01 11:08:17

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to launch an ambitious space programme during the next fiscal year with an aim to keep an eye on the Indian side and reduce its dependence on foreign satellites for civil an...

UNSC delegation meets top politicians, civil society leaders in Myanmar

UNSC delegation meets top politicians, civil society leaders in Myanmar

-- 2018-05-01 11:03:30

The United Nations Security Council(UNSC) is continuing its mission to Bangladesh and Myanmar, taking a first-hand look at the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled acro...

Missile strikes kill ‘pro-Assad fighters'

Missile strikes kill ‘pro-Assad fighters'

-- 2018-04-30 21:33:00

Missile strikes on military sites in northern Syria overnight reportedly killed a number of pro-government fighters, including Iranians. The Syrian military said facilities in Hama and Aleppo provinc...

US-Saudi alliance will destabilise Mideast, says Iran

US-Saudi alliance will destabilise Mideast, says Iran

-- 2018-04-30 14:48:48

Iran said on Monday cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States will further destabilise the Middle East, a senior official said. The official added that Tehran will continue its presence...

Landslide claims nine lives in China

Landslide claims nine lives in China

-- 2018-04-30 12:50:23

A landslide in northern China trapped and killed nine people Monday morning beneath the falling earth. More than a hundred firefighters, rescue workers and medical staff were sent to the scene in Sha...

AFP photographer among 21 dies in Kabul suicide blasts

AFP photographer among 21 dies in Kabul suicide blasts

-- 2018-04-30 10:45:06

At least 21 people including a photographer of French news agency AFP have been killed when two blasts rocked the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials said. But there was no immediate claim of r...

Pompeo stresses need for Gulf unity

Pompeo stresses need for Gulf unity

-- 2018-04-29 21:29:01

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored the need for unity in the Gulf on Sunday during a brief visit to the Saudi capital, reports Reuters.  "Gulf unity is necessary and we need to achiev...

Philippines bans manpower export to Kuwait permanently

Philippines bans manpower export to Kuwait permanently

-- 2018-04-29 20:25:29

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect since February would now be permanent, inflaming a dispute sparked by compl...

Australia pledges $379m to protect Great Barrier Reef

Australia pledges $379m to protect Great Barrier Reef

-- 2018-04-29 16:13:40

Australia has pledged A$500 million ($379m) to protect the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. In recent years, the reef has lost 30 per cent of its coral due to bleaching linked to rising sea...

Militants kill nine police in Afghanistan

Militants kill nine police in Afghanistan

-- 2018-04-29 15:20:07

At least nine Afghan police personnel were killed and ten others injured in a gunfight after the Taliban attacked a remote district in Northern Afghanistan on Saturday night. "Militants stormed secur...

Truck crashes into bus, killing seven in India

Truck crashes into bus, killing seven in India

-- 2018-04-29 14:24:03

A collision between a truck and a bus in India’s Madhya Pradesh state has left at least seven people dead and 25 others injured on Sunday, said police. The accident occurred in the morning in M...

Kim pledges to shut down nuclear test site in May

Kim pledges to shut down nuclear test site in May

Reuters 2018-04-29 12:04:57

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to close the country’s nuclear test site in May in full view of the outside world, Seoul officials said on Sunday, as US President Trump pressed for...

Pakistan relocates doctor jailed for helping trace Laden

Pakistan relocates doctor jailed for helping trace Laden

-- 2018-04-29 10:47:12

Pakistani prison authorities have moved the jailed doctor believed to have helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden, his attorney said on Saturday, speculating it could be a prelude to his release. T...

Thousands flee fresh fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin state

Thousands flee fresh fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin state

-- 2018-04-28 21:03:17

Thousands of people have fled renewed fighting between the army and ethnic Kachin rebels in Myanmar's northernmost state.  Some 4,000 people have been driven from their homes since early April,...

Human rights group accuses Pakistan army of abuses

Human rights group accuses Pakistan army of abuses

-- 2018-04-28 20:48:41

A Pakistani human rights group that has accused the military of widespread abuses as it battles Islamist militants in Pakistan’s rugged border region with neighbouring Afghanistan has emerged as...