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Afghan medical personnel carry an injured member of the Afghan security forces onto a C-130 military transport plane at the Kandahar military Airport, Afghanistan, in this July 9, 2017 file photo. — Reuters

July 27, 2017

Dozens of Afghan soldiers killed as Taliban storm Kandahar base

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — At least 30 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in southern Kandahar province, the defense ministry said on Wednesday, the latest blow to the country’s struggling security forces.The Afghan air force said it carried out strikes backing up soldiers on the ground during the hours-long attack on the base, which began late Tuesday and ended in the early hours of ...

Indigenous people known as Lumads, right, form the words “Save Lumad schools” as they join a march of thousands of protesters to coincide with the state of the nation address of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, in this July 24, 2017 file photo. — AP

July 27, 2017

Rights groups urge Duterte to retract threat to bomb schools

MANILA — Human rights groups asked the Philippine president on Wednesday to retract a threat to order air strikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist rebels, warning such an attack would constitute a war crime.US-based Human Rights Watch said international humanitarian law “prohibits attacks on schools and other civilian structures unless they are being used for military purposes,” adding that deliberate attacks on civilians, including ...

Customers buy petrol at a petrol station in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday. — Reuters

July 27, 2017

Fuel tanker owners in Pakistan end strike, bringing halt to panic buying

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD — Owners of Pakistani fuel tankers ended their protest strike on its third day on Wednesday, dispelling fears of a fuel shortage that had prompted long queues of panicked fuel buyers at petrol stations countrywide.Pakistan has 10 to 11 days of oil stock reserves, media said, but many service stations were shuttered, and carried “Petrol Finished” signs, following panic buying in the nation of nearly 200 million people.Tanker owners ...

Bangladeshi conjoined twins baby girls Rabia and Rukia are seen during their visit to a hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday. — AFP

July 27, 2017

Bangladeshi twins born joined at skull set to undergo surgery

DHAKA — Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate them, surgeons said on Wednesday as they appealed for help from global medical experts.Doctors are trying to establish whether the one-year-old girls, born otherwise healthy in northwest Bangladesh, share the same brain, something that would vastly complicate the surgery.“It would be a very delicate and sensitive surgery,” said Ruhul Amin, chief ...

An Indian woman searches for belongings in the debris of her damaged house in a flood affected village near Thara in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India Wednesday. — AP

July 27, 2017

Rescuers on war footing as flooding hits western, eastern India

AHMEDABAD, India — Floods and relentless rain in India’s western state of Gujarat have killed at least 75 people and displaced over 25,000 over the past three weeks, officials said on Wednesday. Monsoon rains have lashed western and eastern India, leaving several states fighting to contain the flood fury that has affected thousands and killed hundreds. The situation remains critical in Gujarat, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take an ...

July 26, 2017

Pakistan police arrest village council members for ordering rape

Multan, Pakistan — Fourteen members of a Pakistani village council have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl as punishment for a rape committed by her brother, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred earlier this month in the neighborhood of Raja Ram in Muzaffarabad, a suburb of the central city of Multan, investigators said. “A jirga (village council) had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl ...

File Photo: Bihar's chief minister and leader of Janata Dal United party Nitish Kumar gestures during an interview with Reuters in Patna, India January 8, 2012. — Reuters

July 26, 2017

Bihar’s grand alliance crumbles as Nitish dumps Lalu for Modi

NEW DELHI — In a dramatic announcement, the chief minister of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, resigned on Wednesday, bringing the end of a nearly two-year-old grand coalition.Kumar, who was once seen as a potential challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, quit in a move that could shake up national politics.The abrupt resignation followed a falling out with Kumar’s coalition partner, Lalu Prasad Yadav, the leader of ...

A woman poses for photographs in front of a barbed-wire fence near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea. - Reuters

July 26, 2017

Fairy tales overcome nightmares at S.Korea’s militarized border town

SEOUL - A half-hour's drive north of Seoul, along a highway lined with barbed wire, lie two shopping malls the size of several football stadiums, a stone's throw from the world's most militarized border.The malls are in the city of Paju, gateway to the UN truce village of Panmunjom, where military officers from the combatants of the 1950-53 Korean war discuss armistice matters - when the two sides are on ...

Rescuers look for survivors on the second day after a five-story building collapsed in the Ghatkopar area of Mumbai, India, on Wednesday. — AP

July 26, 2017

Owner held after building collapse kills 17 in Mumbai

MUMBAI, India — Indian police arrested the owner of a property in a building that collapsed in Mumbai on culpable homicide charges on Wednesday as the death toll from the disaster rose to 17.The arrest came as civic activists in India’s financial capital decried the latest deadly housing collapse, which shone a spotlight on poor construction standards in the Asian country.“We have arrested Sunil Shitap and are questioning him regarding ...

Maldivian lawmaker Faisal Naseem who was injured in clashes with police is rushed to a hospital in Male, Maldives, on Monday. — AP

July 26, 2017

Troops blockade parliament as Maldives crisis escalates

MALE — Maldivian troops blockaded parliament and clashed with opposition leaders for a second day, witnesses said on Tuesday, as political turmoil escalated in the troubled honeymoon islands.The latest turbulence came as the United Kingdom urged its citizens to take caution in the capital Male after soldiers tear gassed protesting politicians there.Soldiers barred the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) from entering the heavily guarded parliament complex again on Tuesday, ...

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