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August 18, 2018
China sacks six more officials over vaccine scandal
BEIJING — China said on Saturday it has sacked six senior officials over a vaccine scandal that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs.The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a major Chinese manufacturer of rabies vaccines was found to have fabricated records and was ordered to cease production.Authorities say the suspect rabies vaccines ...
August 18, 2018
Woman refuses flood rescue unless her 25 dogs go too
KOCHI, India — A woman refused to leave her flooded house in India’s Kerala state without her 25 dogs, a rescuer said on Saturday, as the death toll continued to rise.The dogs were found cowering on beds in the flooded house with water rising when an animal welfare group arrived for a last-gasp rescue, said Sally Varma of Humane Society International.The woman, who uses only one name Sunitha, was found ...
August 18, 2018
More heavy rains likely in India’s Kerala as flood death toll jumps
KOCHI, India — India deployed thousands of soldiers and dozens of helicopters to rescue people marooned by the worst floods in a century in the southern state of Kerala, where the death toll of 186 people as of Saturday could rise fast as rains continue.The weather office warned of more heavy “red” category rains on Saturday as tens of thousands of people were still stuck on the rooftops of houses ...
August 18, 2018
Woman gives birth after helicopter rescue from India floods
KOCHI, India — A heavily pregnant woman stranded by floods in the Indian state of Kerala gave birth just after being airlifted to safety, an Indian Navy spokesman said, as the military stepped up rescue operations on Saturday.Dozens of navy helicopters have embarked on high-risk missions to save people from rooftops and isolated land as the southern state battles a flood crisis that has left at least 324 people dead.Sajita ...
August 18, 2018
Fears mount for stranded villages in India flood crisis
KOCHI, India — Rescuers in helicopters and boats fought to get to stranded villages in India’s Kerala state on Saturday as the toll from the worst monsoon floods in a century rose above 320 dead.Dozens of military and coastguard helicopters flew in torrential rain to reach high risk areas, officials said, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi describing the crisis as “devastating”.Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced late Friday that ...
August 18, 2018
Former cricketer Imran Khan sworn-in as Pakistan’s PM
ISLAMABAD - Former cricket star Imran Khan was sworn-in as prime minister of Pakistan on Saturday, taking on the challenge of forming a coalition to govern as a currency crisis looms over the turbulent, nuclear-armed South Asian country.Khan, a firebrand nationalist, won the general election last month promising to fight corruption and drastically reduce poverty among Pakistan’s 208 million mostly-Muslim people.Hours after the oath-taking, Khan’s office released a partial list ...
August 17, 2018
No place to hide: Exiled Chinese Uighurs feel state’s long reach
PARIS — Sitting on the terrace of a Paris cafe, a young Chinese woman glances nervously at her mobile phone as a message from a police officer in her native Xinjiang region pops up.A member of China’s Muslim Uighur minority, Mariem traveled halfway around the world to study in France, but has found herself pulled into a mass security crackdown underway back home.“They want to know where I live, what ...
August 17, 2018
US sanctions Myanmar military commanders over Rohingya abuses
WASHINGTON — The US government on Friday hit four Myanmar military commanders and two military units with punitive sanctions, accusing them of “serious human rights abuses” and “ethnic cleansing” in violently expelling minority Rohingya from their homes.Military and border guard commanders Aung Kyaw Zaw, Khin Maung Soe, Khin Hlaing, and Thura San Lwin were accused of leading violent campaigns against the Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine state as well as minorities ...
August 17, 2018
Ex-cricketer Imran Khan elected prime minister of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani lawmakers elected former cricket legend Imran Khan prime minister on Friday and he pledged to bring to justice “all those who have robbed this country” through corruption.Parliament’s move cleared the way for the 65-year-old Khan to set up a coalition government and his first major task will be to avert a brewing economic crisis after his party swept to election victory on July 25.Khan saw his party ...
August 17, 2018
Sri Lanka ex-president claims ‘witch hunt’ over kidnap probe
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he was the victim of a “witch hunt” as investigators questioned him for the first time on Friday over the abduction of a newspaper editor.Rajapaksa, who ruled his country with an iron first for a decade, was interviewed by five detectives over the 2008 kidnapping and torture of Nation weekly news editor Keith Noyahr, near the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody ...
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