Apartment fire kills 14 in Vietnam
AFP : A fire ripped through an apartment complex in central Hanoi early Friday, killing 14 people and injuring three others, police said. Smoke and...
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China’s war games around Taiwan tests ability to ‘seize power’
Reuters : China’s military carried out a second day of war games around Taiwan on Friday, with drills to test its ability to “seize power”...
Foreign students flee Kyrgyzstan after mob attack
Reuters : Students from Pakistan and other Asian countries are leaving Kyrgyzstan by the hundreds after an angry mob attacked their living quarters this month,...
Florida judge hears bids to dismiss Trump documents charges
AFP : A Florida judge held hearings on Wednesday on bids by former president Donald Trump and his co-defendants to dismiss the charges they face...
50 Rohingya land in Indonesia
Reuters : Around 50 Rohingya Muslims have arrived in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, an official at the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday, the...
UN probing mass displacement in Myanmar
AFP : UN war crimes investigators said on Thursday they were tracking the escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and were probing reports that...
85 dead from fighting in Sudan
AFP : At least 85 people have died in a single hospital in the Darfur city of El-Fasher since fighting reignited between Sudan’s warring parties...
Armies of young insurgents are changing the course of a forgotten war
BBC : Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang,...
Nepali reaches summit of Everest for record 30th time
AFP : Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record Wednesday as the person to have scaled Mount Everest the most times, achieving the...
Ireland, Norway and Spain to recognise Palestinian state
BBC : Ireland, Norway, and Spain have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state from 28 May. Spain and Ireland said the decision was...
Can South Africa fix its ailing infrastructure?
Aljazeera : “I set up my company several years ago. The power cuts were bad then, lasting up to five hours a day,” said Lezanne...