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August 24, 2019
North Korea fires 'short-range ballistic missiles' into sea
SEOUL - North Korea Saturday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea after vowing to remain the biggest "threat" to the United States and branding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as "toxin."It was the latest in a series of short-range missile tests the nuclear-armed nation has carried out in recent weeks in protest against US-South Korean military exercises, which it sees as a rehearsal for ...
August 23, 2019
Rescuers hunt for 22 missing after Indonesian Ferry catches fire
JAKARTA — Nearly two dozen people are missing from the carcass of a ferry that went up in flames off Indonesia's Java island, a port official said on Friday.The boat was en route from Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya to Balikpapan on Borneo island with some 277 people aboard when it caught fire on Thursday evening, according to the official.Television images showed plumes of black smoke coming out of the boat, ...
August 23, 2019
India increases restrictions in Kashmir ahead of separatist call for protests
SRINAGAR, India — Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest march to a UN office, with streets bristling with paramilitary personnel and some blocked by checkpoints.Posters appeared overnight this week in Srinagar, the Muslim-majority region's main city, calling for a march to the office of the UN Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), to protest ...
August 23, 2019
US military ship passes through strategic Taiwan Strait
WASHINGTON — The United States sent a Navy ship through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, rekindling one of a growing number of flashpoints in Washington's relationship with Beijing.The US military has increased the frequency of its transport movements through the strategic waterway in the face of opposition from China.Friday's voyage risks further raising bilateral tensions stoked by a bitter trade war, but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as ...
August 23, 2019
India says soldier killed in Kashmir border clash
SRINAGAR, India — An Indian soldier was killed by Pakistani forces on the Kashmir border, the military said on Friday, as a tense lockdown in the region of seven million residents continued for the 19th day.The nuclear-armed neighbors regularly target each other with mortar shells and gunfire on the de facto border known as the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Himalayan territory which is claimed by both India ...
August 23, 2019
Pakistan's top court orders action against judge in ex-PM case
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday ordered disciplinary action against a judge who convicted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, effectively giving a boost to Sharif's appeal against a seven-year jail term for corruption.Sharif was convicted and jailed last year after failing to prove the source of income that had led to his ownership of a steel mill abroad. Under Pakistani law, that is taken as proof of corruption.Sharif denied ...
August 23, 2019
Myanmar blames Rohingya repatriation failure on Bangladesh
YANGON — Myanmar on Friday pushed blame for its second failed attempt to repatriate the Rohingya on Bangladesh, a day after not a single refugee turned up to return to conflict-scarred Rakhine state.The Myanmar military waged a brutal crackdown on the stateless Muslim minority in western Rakhine state, leading to an exodus of more than 740,000 Rohingya to neighboring Bangladesh.The region remains riven by religious and ethnic conflict.The Rohingya who ...
August 22, 2019
UN experts urge India to end 'collective punishment' in Kashmir
GENEVA — A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday urged India to end the communications blackout imposed on Kashmir, warning it amounted to "collective punishment" and risked exacerbating regional tensions.They voiced alarm over the measures imposed by India since it revoked autonomous rule in the part of Kashmir it controls on Aug. 5, including a near-total communications blackout."The shutdown of the internet and telecommunication networks, without justification from ...
August 22, 2019
Myanmar troops' sexual violence against Rohingya shows genocidal intent: UN report
NEW YORK — Sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 was an indication of the military's genocidal intent to destroy the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, United Nations investigators concluded in a report released on Thursday.The panel of independent investigators, set up by the UN Human Rights Council in 2017, accused Myanmar's government of failing to hold anyone accountable and said it was responsible "under ...
August 22, 2019
India ex-finance minister detained over corruption claims
NEW DELHI — India's main opposition Congress party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party of a "shameless witch-hunt" as a powerful former finance minister was on Thursday remanded in custody on corruption allegations.Palaniappan Chidambaram, 73, was arrested in a dramatic late-night swoop on Wednesday by officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's equivalent to the FBI.Chidambaram served twice as finance minister and also as a home minister ...
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