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April 23, 2018
Emergency alerts loom as drought takes hold in war-torn Afghanistan
KABUL — Afghanistan faces the threat of serious drought this year after recording the lowest snowfall and rain in years over the winter, officials said on Monday, with at least 20 of 34 provinces already suffering badly.The 20 provinces in the war-torn country saw a 60 percent shortfall in rain and snowfall during the winter season.“This year drought has reached a level that we will have to announce an emergency ...
April 23, 2018
A Muslim group adopts 100 villages in southern India
Kozhikode, India — Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya (Sunni Cultural Centre), led by Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed, has decided to adopt 100 villages in the country as part of the 41st foundation anniversary of the institution. Markaz has decided to implement four different programs in these villages which are educational empowerment projects, socio-economic services, community welfare schemes and agricultural initiatives. Another project launched in the function is the distribution of one million notebooks ...
April 23, 2018
Grief turns to anger as Afghans bury Kabul suicide blast victims
KABUL — Hundreds of grieving Afghans buried their loved ones in Kabul on Monday amid growing anger over a suicide attack on a voter registration center that killed 57 people including children and wounded over 100.The bomber blew himself up on Sunday morning in a large crowd queuing to collect national ID certificates so they could register to vote in long-delayed legislative elections scheduled for October.The blast, which was claimed ...
April 23, 2018
Online myth busters fight tide of fake news in India
NEW DELHI — As grief and outrage over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old heightened in India last week, a wrenching video of the supposed victim singing “her last song” lit up phones across the country.But it was a hoax. The clip was nearly a year old and the girl someone entirely different, a lie that was discovered by a team of fact checkers who debunk the “fake news” ...
April 23, 2018
India’s vice president rejects opposition bid to impeach top judge
NEW DELHI — India’s vice president on Monday rejected an unprecedented petition by seven opposition parties to impeach the top judge for “misbehaviour”, saying that the allegations were “neither tenable nor admissible”.The decision of Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, who chairs the upper house of parliament, was a relief for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which had called it a “revenge petition” moved in response to a reprieve the ruling ...
April 23, 2018
Former Pakistan’s hockey hero seeks heart transplant in India
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan’s World Cup winning field hockey goalkeeper Mansoor Ahmed on Monday reached out to India for help in securing a heart transplant — despite years of breaking his rivals’ “hearts on the field”.The 49-year-old has been suffering for weeks from complications stemming from a pacemaker and stents implanted in his heart.Ahmed has been a sporting icon in Pakistan since helping the country win the 1994 World Cup ...
April 23, 2018
As thaw sets in, South Korea halts anti-North propaganda broadcasts
SEOUL — South Korea halted the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border with North Korea on Monday, aiming to set a positive tone ahead of the first summit in a decade between their leaders as the US president cautioned the nuclear crisis was far from resolved.The gesture came after North Korea said on Saturday it would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and instead ...
April 23, 2018
Facebook rejects Australia media calls for regulation
SYDNEY/BERLIN — Tech giant Facebook has opposed calls by Australian media companies for digital platforms to be regulated, amid an inquiry into their impact on competition in news and advertising markets.The government tasked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission earlier this year with assessing whether platforms such as Facebook and Google were using their market power in commercial dealings to the detriment of users, news media and advertisers.Australian media groups, ...
April 22, 2018
Rape case in north Indian city heightens Hindu-Muslim divide
JAMMU, India — The internet is being cut for hours on end in Jammu as authorities try to halt protests that have grown in the Kashmir winter capital since the rape-murder of an eight year old girl opened a new front in India’s Hindu-Muslim divide.With near daily protests held across the country over the brutal killing, Jammu police say the digital clampdown is to halt the spread of “rumors” that ...
April 22, 2018
Armenia arrests anti-govt protest leader amid unrest
YEREVAN — Armenia on Sunday detained anti-government protest leader Nikol Pashinyan, prosecutors said, shortly after Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian stormed out of talks with him on the tenth day of mass rallies against his rule.Pashinyan along with two other opposition MPs “were arrested as they were committing socially dangerous acts”, the prosecutor general’s office said in a statement. Armenian police earlier denied an opposition MP’s report that Pashinyan had been ...
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