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Reuters 2019-08-08 18:23:21
Nepali beautician Sheela didn’t think twice about ditching her salon job when she received a call offering seven times her salary to work as a cultural dancer at a nightclub in Kenya. It didn&r...
-- 2019-08-08 17:57:33
Pakistan said on Thursday it would ban the screening of Indian films in the country's cinemas, as tensions between the two countries rise over the contested Kashmir region, reports Reuters. "No India...
-- 2019-08-08 17:45:56
Pakistan said on Thursday it would suspend a rail service linking it to India, as relations with its arch rival continue to sour over the contested Kashmir region, reports Reuters. “We ha...
AP 2019-08-08 13:39:07
A petition was filed Thursday in India’s top court challenging the communications blackout and security clampdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where people remained holed up in their homes for...
-- 2019-08-08 13:12:38
India on Thursday urged Pakistan to review its decision to downgrade diplomatic ties over the withdrawal of special status to Kashmir, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Pakistan said it would...
Reuters 2019-08-08 12:02:21
At least 16 people have died in India’s western state of Maharashtra as heavy rains and overflowing rivers swamped five districts, forcing authorities to move more than 140,000 people to safer p...
Reuters 2019-08-08 10:53:59
The United States on Wednesday said it supports direct dialogue between India and Pakistan on the disputed Kashmir region and called for calm and restraint as the dispute escalated. "We continue to s...
-- 2019-08-08 10:31:08
A powerful typhoon will hit Taiwan later on Thursday, bringing the risk of landslides and high seas, weather forecasters said, hours after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the island. Typhoon Lekima...
-- 2019-08-07 20:07:04
Pakistan has expelled Indian High Commissioner in the wake of New Delhi's move of revoking special status for Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan also announced on Wednesday that it will call its ambassador...
Global Times 2019-08-07 18:24:13
In its recent National Defence White Paper, China declared, "Nuclear capability is the strategic cornerstone to safeguarding national sovereignty and security." As is the case with other nuclear weapo...
Reuters 2019-08-07 11:22:15
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to change the status of Kashmir ran into fierce opposition from China and its ally Pakistan on Tuesday as the disputed territory lay under a telecoms b...
-- 2019-08-07 11:06:09
Pakistani PM Imran Khan has vowed to fight India's decision to revoke Indian-administered Kashmir's autonomy, including at the UN Security Council. Mr Khan said the move was in breach of internationa...
Reuters 2019-08-07 10:52:22
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country’s latest launch of tactical guided missiles was a warning to the United States and South Korea over their joint military drills that began this...
Reuters 2019-08-07 09:53:55
Veteran Indian politician Sushma Swaraj, who most recently served as minister of external affairs, passed away on Tuesday, following a cardiac arrest. Swaraj, 67, a senior leader of the ruling Bharat...
Global Times 2019-08-06 17:58:57
Authorities at Harbour City in Hong Kong have failed to respond to three inquiries regarding what protective measures will be put in place after violent opposition protesters twice removed the Chinese...
-- 2019-08-06 14:09:07
China has issued a strong warning to Hong Kong's protesters, saying their attempts "to play with fire will only backfire". A spokesman for China's top policy office in Hong Kong told protesters not t...
-- 2019-08-06 13:05:13
At least six people, including two children, have died and 11 injured in a fire that broke out at a residential building in southeast Delhi late last night. The blaze in the four-storey building in Z...
-- 2019-08-06 13:04:59
China threatened countermeasures on Tuesday if the United States deploys intermediate-range, ground-based missiles in Asia and warned US allies of repercussions if they allow such weapons on their ter...
-- 2019-08-06 12:38:36
Hiroshima marked the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city with its mayor renewing calls for eliminating such weapons and demanding Japan's government do more. Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised...
-- 2019-08-06 12:29:39
Indian-administered Kashmir remains in a state of lockdown a day after it was stripped of special status that gave it significant autonomy. Landlines, mobiles and internet, which were cut off on Sund...
-- 2019-08-06 10:54:34
North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programmes using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryp...
-- 2019-08-06 10:48:56
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, his spokesman said on Monday, after India revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region...
Reuters 2019-08-06 10:43:52
North Korea fired missiles into the sea off its east coast for the fourth time in less than two weeks, the South Korean military said on Tuesday, as Pyongyang protested that joint US-South Korea milit...
Global Times 2019-08-05 21:55:47
The yuan's sudden slump against the US dollar on Monday added fuel to speculation that China's central bank is allowing currency depreciation to cushion threatened US tariffs. US President Dona...
Global Times 2019-08-05 20:41:34
US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper said Saturday that he was in favor of deploying ground-based intermediate-range missiles in Asia. If that is the case, it will certainly trigger an intense arms race...
-- 2019-08-05 17:35:31
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Monday described the country’s escalating trade war with Japan as a wake-up call to revamp its economy and issued a nationalistic call for economic c...
-- 2019-08-05 15:28:46
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northwest of the South Pacific island nation of Tonga, the United States Geological Survey said on Monday, Reuters reported. There were no immediate reports of...
Reuters 2019-08-05 12:52:49
India’s Hindu nationalist-led government introduced a measure in parliament on Monday to revoke the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, the most far-reaching move on the disputed...
Reuters 2019-08-05 11:28:08
United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could...
-- 2019-08-05 10:17:16
The disputed region of Kashmir was thrown into further turmoil in the early hours of Monday as regional leaders said they feared being arrested and Indian officials imposed restrictions in the city of...
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