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Police, politicians 'were behind' Sri Lanka's anti-Muslim riots

Police, politicians 'were behind' Sri Lanka's anti-Muslim riots

-- 2018-03-25 10:29:14

Police and politicians backed by the country’s former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Muslim riots that rocked Sri Lanka’s Kandy district this month, according to witne...

14 yrs jail to Lalu Prasad in fodder scam

14 yrs jail to Lalu Prasad in fodder scam

-- 2018-03-24 19:14:11

A powerful Indian politician was sentenced Saturday to 14 years in prison for embezzling 37 million rupees ($570,000) from a state government’s treasury while he was the state’s top electe...

Malaysia arrests seven with Islamic State links

Malaysia arrests seven with Islamic State links

-- 2018-03-24 18:49:49

Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Islamic State militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets Inspector-General of Malaysian Poli...

Magnitude 6.8 quake hits near Papua New Guinea

Magnitude 6.8 quake hits near Papua New Guinea

-- 2018-03-24 17:58:04

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck on Saturday around 180 kilometres southwest of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was measured at a depth of 60 km...

Kashmir shootout kills two militants

Kashmir shootout kills two militants

-- 2018-03-24 14:24:31

Two militants were killed in an overnight gunfight with contingents of police and army in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Saturday. The gunfight erupted Friday night at Shistargam loca...

10 insurgents die in accidental blast in Afghanistan

10 insurgents die in accidental blast in Afghanistan

-- 2018-03-24 13:10:43

An accidental blast in Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab killed ten Taliban militants and injured four others, an army source said Saturday. The explosion took place roughly at 10:30 pm...

Car bomb rocks Afghan stadium, killing 14

Car bomb rocks Afghan stadium, killing 14

-- 2018-03-24 10:14:21

At least 14 people were killed and 50 others injured after a suspected suicide car bombing struck a sports stadium in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Friday evening. The blast occ...

China tightens grip on media, bans video parodies

China tightens grip on media, bans video parodies

-- 2018-03-23 19:02:22

China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua new agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core valu...

Vietnam suspends oil drilling project under pressure from China

Vietnam suspends oil drilling project under pressure from China

-- 2018-03-23 17:48:02

Vietnam has halted an oil drilling project in the “Red Emperor” block off its southeastern coast in South China Sea licensed following pressure from China. It would be the second time in...

Five Al-Qaeda suspects die in US drone strike in Yemen

Five Al-Qaeda suspects die in US drone strike in Yemen

-- 2018-03-23 14:59:45

At least five al-Qaida suspects were killed in an overnight US drone strike on a house in Yemen's central province of Marib, a provincial security official said on Friday. The drone strike hit the h...

Factory explosion in India leaves five dead

Factory explosion in India leaves five dead

-- 2018-03-23 14:48:29

Five people have been killed and at least 15 others injured in an explosion inside fireworks factory in Bihar state of India, officials said Friday. The blast took place inside the factory on Thur...

Apartment fire kills 13, injures 27 in Vietnam

Apartment fire kills 13, injures 27 in Vietnam

-- 2018-03-23 14:04:43

At least 13 people were killed and 27 others injured in a devastating fire at an apartment complex in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam on Friday, officials said. “Most of the victims died from smoke...

Afghan airstrikes kill nine IS militants

Afghan airstrikes kill nine IS militants

-- 2018-03-23 13:34:53

At least nine Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes in two Afghan provinces, officials said on Friday. Eight IS members were killed in Dih Bala district of Nangarhar province as th...

Pakistan buys powerful missile tracking system from China

Pakistan buys powerful missile tracking system from China

-- 2018-03-22 20:59:55

In an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system which could speed up the development of multi-warhead missiles by its all-weather ally, the state-run Chinese Academy of Sc...

China army to control troops on border with India

China army to control troops on border with India

-- 2018-03-22 19:07:07

China has brought its frontier troops, including those guarding its border with India, directly under the military command removing civilian control over them, a state-run daily reported today. Commu...

Philippine police raids kill 13 drug suspects in one day

Philippine police raids kill 13 drug suspects in one day

-- 2018-03-22 18:44:23

Philippine police killed 13 suspected drug dealers and arrested more than 100 people in dozens of anti-narcotics operations on Wednesday in a province north of the capital, its police chief said. Mor...

Noted Iranian philosopher Shayegan no more

Noted Iranian philosopher Shayegan no more

-- 2018-03-22 18:13:05

Famous Iranian philosopher Dariush Shayegan, who advocated confronting the idea of Western thought dominating cultural and philosophical studies, died at the age of 83, Iranian state run IRNA news age...

11 get life over India 'beef' murder

11 get life over India 'beef' murder

-- 2018-03-22 16:20:29

A court in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand has sentenced 11 men to life in prison for lynching a Muslim meat trader last year. Alimuddin Ansari, 55, was beaten to death by the men for transpor...

Germany condemns Turkish military offensive in Syria

Germany condemns Turkish military offensive in Syria

-- 2018-03-22 14:52:04

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Turkey’s military offensive in Syria’s northern town of Afrin was unacceptable and she criticized Russia for “just watching” t...

Maldives lifts emergency after 45 days

Maldives lifts emergency after 45 days

Reuters 2018-03-22 14:36:57

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen lifted a 45-day state of emergency on Thursday imposed amid political upheaval on the Indian Ocean island chain. “Though there still exists a diminished thre...

10 soldiers, militants killed in Kashmir shootout: Police

10 soldiers, militants killed in Kashmir shootout: Police

-- 2018-03-22 14:04:47

Five Indian soldiers and five suspected militants were killed in a gun fight near the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, a senior police officia...

18 die as Thai tour bus crashes off road

18 die as Thai tour bus crashes off road

-- 2018-03-22 14:04:39

A chartered tour bus lost control on a downhill curve in Thailand's northeast and slid off the side of the road, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more, reports said. In addition to the...

Maldives charges Maumoon Gayoom, top judges with terrorism

Maldives charges Maumoon Gayoom, top judges with terrorism

-- 2018-03-21 21:50:49

Authorities charged the Maldives’ former dictator, top judges and police officials with terrorism on Tuesday as the government deals with political turmoil that prompted a weeks-long state of em...

Israel goes public on 2007 destruction of ‘Syrian reactor’

Israel goes public on 2007 destruction of ‘Syrian reactor’

-- 2018-03-21 14:57:37

Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed a major threat to Israel and the region and was a “mess...

Suicide blast hits Kabul, killing 26

Suicide blast hits Kabul, killing 26

-- 2018-03-21 14:53:37

At least 26 people have been killed and 18 others wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shi’ite shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, said officials. The explosion, near the shrine in t...

Philippines bus crash claims 19 lives

Philippines bus crash claims 19 lives

-- 2018-03-21 12:29:17

At least 19 passengers were killed and more than a dozen wounded after a commuter bus crashed into a ravine south of the Philippine capital, Manila, on Tuesday evening, police said. The bus hit a bri...

Vessel capsizes off Malaysia, 10 go missing

Vessel capsizes off Malaysia, 10 go missing

-- 2018-03-21 12:27:37

A sand mining vessel capsized off Malaysia in the Malacca Strait on Wednesday morning, leaving at least 10 crew members missing, Xinhua reported quoting Malaysian maritime officials. More to follow.....

Turkish air strike 'neutralises' 12 Kurdish militants

Turkish air strike 'neutralises' 12 Kurdish militants

-- 2018-03-21 12:26:33

An air strike by Turkish warplanes ‘neutralised’ at least 12 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the military said on Twitter on Wednesday. The air s...

35 die in Damascus rocket attack

35 die in Damascus rocket attack

-- 2018-03-21 11:38:03

At least 35 civilians were killed in a rocket attack on a busy market in a government-held district of Syria's capital Damascus, state media report. Rebels in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region fired...

Myanmar president resigns

Myanmar president resigns

-- 2018-03-21 11:36:56

Myanmar's civilian president, Htin Kyaw, has resigned with immediate effect "in order to take rest from the current duties and responsibilities", his office said in a statement posted on Facebook on W...