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Kashmir gunfight leaves three rebels dead

Kashmir gunfight leaves three rebels dead

-- 2018-03-12 14:57:40

A gunfight erupted between Indian troops and rebels on early Monday, killing three militants in disputed Kashmir and triggered more anti-India protests and clashes. According to police officials, the...

Forest fire kills nine trekkers in South India

Forest fire kills nine trekkers in South India

-- 2018-03-12 12:29:07

A massive forest fire in Kurangani hills in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu, killed at least nine people on Sunday, Theni district collector M Pallavi Baldev said on Monday. Six of the nine dece...

Indian farmers march to Mumbai demanding loan waiver

Indian farmers march to Mumbai demanding loan waiver

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

More than 30,000 farmers have converged in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, after walking 167km (103 miles) from Nashik district to demand loan waivers and better prices for their produce. Th...

Fresh violence erupts in Sri Lanka

Fresh violence erupts in Sri Lanka

-- 2018-03-11 22:00:03

Fresh violence erupted in Sri Lanka on Sunday after a Muslim-owned restaurant was attacked in an alleged hate crime in a northern city, a day after President Maithripala Sirisena appointed a commissio...

Russia test-fires hypersonic missile

Russia test-fires hypersonic missile

-- 2018-03-11 21:27:51

Russia has successfully test-launched a hypersonic missile, one of a range of nuclear-capable weapons announced by President Vladimir Putin earlier this month. The country's defence ministry released...

Student throws shoe at ex Pak PM Nawaz Sharif

Student throws shoe at ex Pak PM Nawaz Sharif

-- 2018-03-11 19:13:04

A shoe was hurled at Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif by a religious extremist today during a function at an Islamic seminary in Lahore. The incident took place a day after religio...

UN to gather evidence on Rohingya genocide

UN to gather evidence on Rohingya genocide

-- 2018-03-11 18:53:26

United Nations Special Adviser on Genocide Prevention Adama Dieng said the organisation decided to amass evidence of genocide on Rohingyas through a judicial investigation. The UN high official told...

Turkish airstrikes destroy 18 Kurdish targets in Iraq

Turkish airstrikes destroy 18 Kurdish targets in Iraq

-- 2018-03-11 15:43:57

Turkish warplanes destroyed at least 18 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq over the weekend, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Sunday. The strike...

China approves lifetime presidency

China approves lifetime presidency

-- 2018-03-11 14:38:28

China has approved the removal of term limits for its leader, in a move that effectively allows Xi Jinping to remain as president for life. The constitutional changes were passed by China's annual si...

Court ruling against Pakistani minorities sparks criticism

Court ruling against Pakistani minorities sparks criticism

-- 2018-03-11 14:28:31

Rights activists in Pakistan are expressing concern over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents. They said it could lead to the persecution of mi...

China set to approve lifetime presidency

China set to approve lifetime presidency

-- 2018-03-11 12:42:46

China is set to approve the removal of term limits for its leader, in a move that will effectively allow Xi Jinping to remain as president for life. The change is part of a set of constitutional chan...

Taliban attack kills 24 Afghan soldiers

Taliban attack kills 24 Afghan soldiers

-- 2018-03-11 09:37:20

At least 24 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in a Taliban attack in the western province of Farah, officials said. Militants reportedly attacked soldiers who had assembled in pr...

Afghan troops kill 14 militants

Afghan troops kill 14 militants

-- 2018-03-10 13:05:30

At least fourteen militants have been killed and 12 others injured after Afghan army struck their positions in Helmand province in south of Afghanistan. Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the Afg...

Two die as light aircraft crashes in Thailand’s Phuket

Two die as light aircraft crashes in Thailand’s Phuket

-- 2018-03-10 13:00:37

Two people have been killed and two others seriously injured after a light aircraft crash-landed in Thailand's Phuket on Saturday. The Phuket News reported citing the police that the incident took pl...

India to provide vocational training to 0.5m trafficking survivors

India to provide vocational training to 0.5m trafficking survivors

-- 2018-03-09 18:20:58

India is set offer vocational training to almost half a million survivors of human trafficking. The training will be provided under a programme launched recently by the country’s President Ram...

Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf faces arrest warrant

Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf faces arrest warrant

-- 2018-03-09 18:00:33

A Pakistan court has ordered to arrest former President Pervez Musharraf in a sedition case. The court also asked Pakistan government on Thursday to take steps to extradite him from Dubai. A three-m...

Myanmar wants clear evidence of genocide

Myanmar wants clear evidence of genocide

-- 2018-03-09 17:14:33

Myanmar wants to see clear evidence to support accusations of ethnic cleansing or genocide perpetrated against its Muslim minority in Rakhine state. Myanmar's National Security Adviser Thaung Tun cam...

Blast hits Shi'ite area of Kabul, killing seven

Blast hits Shi'ite area of Kabul, killing seven

-- 2018-03-09 15:14:41

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday, killing at least seven people in an attack apparently intended to hit crowds gathered to commemorate a political leader from t...

India's apex court upholds passive euthanasia

India's apex court upholds passive euthanasia

-- 2018-03-09 13:07:15

India’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that individuals had a right to die with dignity, allowing passive euthanasia with guidelines in a landmark verdict. The top court also permitted individ...

US airstrike kills 21 Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan

US airstrike kills 21 Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan

-- 2018-03-08 16:00:12

Two missiles fired from a US drone struck a militant facility in Afghanistan, leaving 21 insurgents dead including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani intelligence officials and lo...

Sri Lanka lifts curfew in tourist town Kandy

Sri Lanka lifts curfew in tourist town Kandy

-- 2018-03-08 11:19:59

A curfew in the Sri Lankan town of Kandy will be temporarily lifted on Thursday, authorities said, following days of violence against members of the minority Muslim community by Buddhists. Buddhist m...

US museum withdraws Suu Kyi’s award

US museum withdraws Suu Kyi’s award

-- 2018-03-08 11:13:20

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country’s minority Rohingya Mus...

Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes Indonesia

Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes Indonesia

-- 2018-03-08 10:49:54

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale has shaken the eastern parts of Indonesia on Thursday morning, according to the meteorology and geophysics agency. The moderate quake struck at 10:51...

Sri Lanka blocks social media

Sri Lanka blocks social media

-- 2018-03-07 19:36:48

Sri Lanka shut down social messaging networks including, Facebook, on Wednesday to control violence targeted at the country’s minority Muslims even after the imposition of emergency in the Buddh...

Buddhist mob attack Sri Lankan Muslims despite emergency

Buddhist mob attack Sri Lankan Muslims despite emergency

-- 2018-03-07 14:51:56

Buddhist mob attacked mosques and businesses belonging to Sri Lanka’s minority Muslims overnight, despite the imposition of a state of emergency to restore peace in the bitterly divided island,...

18 die as major quake hits Papua New Guinea again

18 die as major quake hits Papua New Guinea again

-- 2018-03-07 11:07:10

At least 18 people were killed by a magnitude 6.7 quake that struck Papua New Guinea’s mountainous Southern Highlands early Wednesday, an official said, adding to the death toll from a larger qu...

Four go missing as Maersk vessel catches fire

Four go missing as Maersk vessel catches fire

-- 2018-03-07 11:06:15

The world’s biggest container shipper, Maersk Line said one of its container vessels caught fire in the Arabian sea and four crew members went missing while 23 others were evacuated safely. The...

Russian plane crashes in Syria, 32 on board die

Russian plane crashes in Syria, 32 on board die

-- 2018-03-06 20:55:41

A Russian military transport airplane has crashed during landing at Khmeimim Airbase in Syria. All 26 passengers and six crew members died in the crash on Tuesday. Defence ministry of Russia said th...

North Korea to halt nuclear tests during US talks

North Korea to halt nuclear tests during US talks

-- 2018-03-06 19:16:23

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed halt nuclear and missile tests if his country holds talks with the United States. Kim Jong Un also agreed to meet with South Korea’s president next mo...

Family finds oldest message on Australia beach

Family finds oldest message on Australia beach

-- 2018-03-06 19:06:12

A Perth family has found the world's oldest known message in a bottle, almost 132 years after it was thrown into the sea, Australian experts say. Tonya Illman picked up the bottle while going for a w...