Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 100 Rohingya refugees
AFP : Sri Lanka’s navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean...
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Mumbai boat accident kills 13
Reuters : Helicopters and divers scoured the waters off India’s financial capital of Mumbai yesterday (19 December) in a search for survivors of a freak...
Pakistan’s missile prog ’emerging threat’ says top US official
Reuters : A senior White House official yesterday (19 December) said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to...
HRW accuses Israel of genocide by ‘deliberately’ restricting water in Gaza
CNN : Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of “acts of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by depriving them of adequate water supplies.The...
HRW accuses Israel of genocide by ‘deliberately’ restricting water in Gaza
CNN : Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of “acts of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by depriving them of adequate water supplies.The...
Indian MPs accuse each other of violence outside parliament
Agency : India’s opposition MPs and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators on Thursday raised allegations of manhandling against each other outside Parliament.A row broke out...
Turkey-Iran leaders at Muslim summit in Cairo
AFP : The leaders of Turkey and Iran were in Egypt on Thursday for a summit of eight Muslim-majority countries, meeting for the first time...
52 killed in two bus accidents in central Afghanistan
AFP : Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed at least 52 people and injured...
US reaffirms support for Rohingya
UNB : Expressing concern over the situation in Myanmar, the United States has said helping resolve Rohingya refugee crisis remains a priority for them. “So...
Russia detains Uzbek man over general’s killing
BBC : EPA Municipal workers in puffer jackets inspect a blown out door that has been boarded up outside the apartment building where Kirillov died....
Hamas expresses optimism for Gaza
CNN : Hamas has become the latest party to the Gaza hostage and ceasefire negotiations to voice optimism about the prospects of reaching a deal,...
US school shooting claims 2 lives
AFP : A 15-year-old female student was identified by police as the assailant who opened fire Monday at a school in the US state of...