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-- 2018-09-15 10:43:38
A strong typhoon packing winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph) tore across the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, bringing heavy rain and causing widespread power and communications outages....
-- 2018-09-14 15:35:35
At least 13 people died and 13 others were injured, seven of them seriously after a minibus plunged 300 feet into a deep gorge near the Chenab river in the mountainous Kishtwar district of Jammu and K...
-- 2018-09-14 12:28:38
The Indian government has banned 328 combination drugs in a blow to both domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms, but the ban has been cheered by health activists worried about growing antibiotic re...
-- 2018-09-14 11:59:45
Thousands of people have begun evacuating from coastal areas of the Philippines as a super typhoon heads towards the country. Typhoon Mangkhut, which is currently a Category 4 hurricane, is due to ma...
-- 2018-09-13 17:55:31
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the decision by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) offers real hope for accountability for the crimes committe...
-- 2018-09-13 16:26:33
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists, despite international condemnation, reports BBC. She said Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had broken the law and their convict...
-- 2018-09-13 13:19:59
Sri Lanka's government has agreed to ban the ritual sacrifice of animals and birds at Hindu temples after growing protests from the country’s Buddhist majority and moderate Hindus. The cabinet...
-- 2018-09-13 10:31:03
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said in hindsight her government could have handled the situation in Rakhine state better. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Rakhine after government troo...
-- 2018-09-13 10:19:31
At least 11 people were killed and 44 others injured after a car plowed into a crowded square in southern China and the driver attacked people with a knife and spade seeking “revenge” on...
-- 2018-09-12 19:08:31
Philippine officials say they plan to evacuate thousands of villagers, shut down schools and offices and scramble to harvest rice and corn as the most powerful typhoon so far this year menacingly roar...
-- 2018-09-12 18:43:45
At least six people were killed and 42 wounded in a suicide bombing near the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday. A suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives at a restaurant on a highway, polic...
-- 2018-09-12 15:53:04
Indian police have arrested a 48-year-old man who they say has confessed to killing 33 truck drivers and their helpers over the past decade, then selling the vehicles and the goods they were carryin...
-- 2018-09-12 14:21:24
At least nine miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine near the northwestern town of Kohat in Pakistan on Wednesday, a government official said. Senior government official Khalid Ilyas sai...
-- 2018-09-12 13:47:01
Pakistani authorities on Wednesday temporarily released former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter from prison to attend funeral services for his wife, Kulsoom, who died of cancer the day bef...
-- 2018-09-12 12:03:29
A proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been defeated at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil. Japan and several other pro-whaling countries vote...
Reuters 2018-09-12 11:50:12
Military and government officials in Myanmar have waged a “political campaign” to quash independent journalism, arresting and prosecuting many through the use of vague and overly broad law...
-- 2018-09-11 20:40:57
US President Donald Trump received a “very warm, very positive” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at scheduling one, Wh...
-- 2018-09-11 19:19:18
Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died on Tuesday in London after a long battle with cancer. Kulsoom had been undergoing treatment at London's Harley St...
-- 2018-09-11 19:08:00
Authorities in Vietnam's capital are urging residents to stop eating dog meat because it hurts the city's image and improper raising and slaughtering of the animals could spread rabies, reports AP. F...
-- 2018-09-11 18:53:37
More than 100 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coastline earlier this month, an aid agency says. Two rubber boats set off on 1 September but one of the vessels deflated and sank, Medecins...
-- 2018-09-11 18:11:39
India's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal to stop forest rangers from killing a "man eating" tigress in the western state of Maharashtra. The court said it would not interfere if forest rangers a...
-- 2018-09-11 16:39:15
Over 40 people, including six children, have died in a bus accident in Telangana, a southern state India. A state-owned commercial bus carrying 70 people skidded off the ghat road near in Jagtiyal di...
Reuters 2018-09-11 11:58:40
Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday that electricity supply will remain tight in Hokkaido in the wake of last week’s powerful earthquake until Friday, when the northern island...
-- 2018-09-11 10:35:41
US President Donald Trump received a “very warm, very positive” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at scheduling one, Wh...
-- 2018-09-10 17:51:55
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said there is strong evidence indicating genocide, extermination and deportation of the Rohingya in addition to crimes against humanity and war...
-- 2018-09-10 10:59:24
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, with 660 injured, the government said on Monday, as electricity supply remained short. The pre-dawn, 6.7-magnitude qu...
-- 2018-09-09 19:39:08
On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire j...
-- 2018-09-09 15:50:40
China is participating for the first time in Australia’s largest maritime exercise as more than 3,000 personnel from 27 countries engage in joint training off the strategic northern port of Darw...
-- 2018-09-09 13:23:08
With no long-range missiles on display, North Korea staged a military parade on Sunday focused on peace and economic development, filled with coloured balloons and flowers to mark the 70th anniversary...
-- 2018-09-08 14:34:43
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck the southern Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage from the quake...
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