Category: Asia and Oceania
On Friday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, situated 648 kilometers (403 miles) north of the Indian capital, New Delhi, and at least two other places in the ...
What happens when your brother runs away with a married woman from a higher social caste? In the case of the Baghpat district in northern India’s Uttar Pradeshin state, village elders will probably order the ...
At least fifty people are now known to have died after a series of explosions in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin. More than 700 people have been injured, according to medics. The blasts happened ...
Six people were killed Thursday in a Taliban suicide attack on Afghan police south of Kabul, the first major attack of Islamist rebels since the announcement of the death of their leader, Mullah Omar, last ...
Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in Myanmar, amid deadly monsoon rains. Helicopters are plucking the stranded to safety, but some remain cut off in remote villages. Storms and floods ...
A suicide bomber killed 15 people including women and children Wednesday when he blew himself up in a northern Afghan market, as militants intensify their annual summer offensive despite nascent peace talks. The attack in ...
Afghanistan is reeling from a wave of bomb attacks over the past two days. First a suicide car bomber killed 33 people on Sunday near a military base in the southeast that is used by ...
Police in northeastern China said Tuesday that they fatally shot three minority Uighurs in a confrontation with suspects they described as terrorists who were using knives to resist arrest. Police also injured a fourth suspect ...
More than 470 people are now reported injured after a fire broke out during a party at a water park in Taiwan. This video captures the moment an unknown flammable powder exploded over a stage ...
Morgues have been filling up and hospitals struggling to cope in southern Pakistan which has been struck by an intense heatwave. The authorities said on Tuesday that more than 400 people had been killed in ...
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