By Ahmad Sultan JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – At least 15 people were killed in stampede among thousands of Afghans gathered near Pakistan’s consulate on Tuesday as jostling broke out between people applying for visas, officials in the eastern city of Jalalabad said. An estimated 3,000 Afghans had congregated on the open ground, usually used for […]
China-India border dispute A Chinese soldier has been handed back by Indian authorities after he strayed across a contested border in the Himalayan region, army officials said. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldier was apprehended in the Demchok area of Ladakh, India said on Monday. The soldier was disoriented and was provided medical assistance and […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country’s general election. With all votes tallied, Ms Ardern’s centre-left Labour Party won 49.1%, bringing a projected 64 seats and a rare outright parliamentary majority. The opposition centre-right National Party won 26.8% in Saturday’s poll – just 35 seats in the 120-seat […]
By Mubasher Bukhari GUJRANWALA/LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday accused the country’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2018 elections. Sharif was speaking via video link from London to a […]
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Thai protesters cheered and chanted into the night in central Bangkok on Thursday in a show of mass defiance to a ban on demonstrations designed to end more than three months of anti-government action. As they dispersed at 10 p.m. (1500 GMT), protesters pledged […]
Former chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, has been freed by Indian authorities, more than a year after her detention. She was detained on 5 August last year, when the Indian government stripped the region of its partial autonomy. She was put under house arrest under a controversial law that allows detention without charge […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent On Thursday evening, detectives from India’s National Investigation Agency arrived in an SUV at a red and white building on the outskirts of Ranchi in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand. There they picked up Father Stan Swamy, an ailing 83-year-old activist and Jesuit priest. They seized his mobile phone and asked […]
By Hyonhee Shin, Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – An apparently emotional Kim Jong Un apologised for failing to improve North Koreans’ lives in an address to an unprecedented predawn military parade on Saturday that showcased the country’s long-range ballistic missiles for the first time in two years. The country marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of […]
Pakistan said it will review its decision subject to a satisfactory mechanism by TikTok to moderate unlawful content. ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, the country’s telecommunication authority said in a statement. “In view of number of complaints from different segments of the society […]
The prime minister of Kyrgyzstan has quit after post-election protests plunged the ex-Soviet republic into political chaos. Protesters replaced Kubatbek Boronov with another politician they had freed from prison, Sadyr Japarov, and the election results were annulled. Opposition groups had earlier seized control of parliament, saying the ballot had been rigged. Russia and China have […]
