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October 19, 2019
Calls, texts... and forecasts? Mobile phone towers can predict rain too
HYDERABAD — Thought mobile phone towers were just for calls and messages? They can also help predict rainfall, telecoms experts said on Friday, a potential game-changer for farmers in developing countries such as India and Sri Lanka.Many emerging economies cannot afford sophisticated forecasting tools such as ground-based radar and rain-gauge networks, making it harder to predict seasonal rains that are the lifeblood for farmers in many Asian countries."Weather information — ...
October 19, 2019
Hong Kong democracy activist injured in knife attack
HONG KONG — A man handing out leaflets for a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who slashed his neck and abdomen on Saturday, days after a leading activist was left bloodied in another street attack.The injured 19-year-old, wearing black clothes and a black face mask, was knifed near one of the large "Lennon Walls" that have sprung up around the city during months of demonstrations, ...
October 19, 2019
Afghans scour for the blast dead
KABUL — Police and local people searched on Saturday for more bodies in the rubble of a mosque in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province after bomb blasts in which at least 69 people were killed during Friday prayers.The explosives were placed inside the mosque in Jawdara area of Haska Mena district.Sohrab Qaderi, a member of Nangarhar's provincial council, said the mosque, with capacity of more than 150 worshipers at a time, ...
October 19, 2019
Ousted Communist leader Zhao Ziyang buried: Family
BEIJING — A former Chinese Communist Party leader ousted after he opposed the use of force to quell 1989 democracy protests was buried over a decade after he died, his family said.Zhao Ziyang, who is a revered figure among Chinese human rights defenders, is still a sensitive topic in the country, where commemorations of his death are held under tight surveillance.There was no mention of his burial ceremony Friday on ...
October 18, 2019
Indonesia rights commission calls for probe into Papua deaths
JAKARTA — Indonesia's human rights commission called for a probe into scores of deaths in Papua on Friday after some of the deadliest violence in years swept the restive region.Dozens were killed when riots broke out in Wamena city last month, with some victims burned alive when buildings were set ablaze, and others stabbed in the chaos.Since mid-August, Papua has been hit by waves of mass protests and violence fueled ...
October 18, 2019
After parliamentary win, India's BJP set to sweep state elections: Poll
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI — India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to sweep two state polls next week, the first since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's landslide win in a parliamentary election in May, a leading pollster said.The BJP is set to comfortably win elections in the western state of Maharashtra and the northern state of Haryana, leaving the main opposition Congress party trailing, according to a survey by polling agency ...
October 18, 2019
Pakistan risks terror financing 'blacklist': Watchdog
PARIS — A global anti-corruption body warned Friday that Pakistan could join a blacklist of nations failing to fight money laundering and terror financing unless it changed course within four months."Despite a high level commitment by Pakistan to fix these weaknesses, Pakistan has not made enough progress," Xiangmin Liu, president of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), said in Paris."If by February 2020 the country has not made significant progress, ...
October 18, 2019
Protests turn Hong Kong's council polls into referendum on Lam's govt
HONG KONG — Pro-democracy candidates will stand in almost all 452 seats in Hong Kong's upcoming local elections, encouraged by four months of anti-government protests, with the outcome of the November poll a barometer of support for the city's embattled government.Such votes have previously attracted little fanfare and been dominated by pro-Beijing candidates. But a summer of unrest has infused a newfound significance in the poll and prompted a record ...
October 18, 2019
Dozens killed in Afghan mosque blast
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — At least 62 people were killed by a blast inside an Afghan mosque during Friday prayers, according to officials, a day after the United Nations said violence in the country had reached "unacceptable" levels.The explosion, which witnesses said collapsed the mosque's roof, took place in eastern Nangarhar province and also wounded at least 33 people, provincial governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said.A Taliban spokesman called the attack a ...
October 18, 2019
Mexico deports over 300 Indians to Delhi in 'unprecedented' move
MEXICO CITY/NEW DELHI — Mexico has deported over 300 Indian nationals to New Delhi, the National Migration Institute (INM) said late on Wednesday, calling it an unprecedented transatlantic deportation.The move follows a deal Mexico struck with the United States in June, vowing to significantly curb US-bound migration in exchange for averting US tariffs on Mexican exports."It is unprecedented in INM's history — in either form or the number of people ...
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