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April 17, 2019
Taliban slam Afghanistan government’s lengthy guest list
KABUL — An upcoming conference between Afghan representatives and the Taliban appeared on Wednesday to be floundering even before it begins, with the militants deriding Kabul’s plan to send 250 delegates.President Ashraf Ghani’s administration announced Tuesday a list of people from all walks of Afghan life, including some from the government, that it wants to send to the so-called intra-Afghan dialogue this weekend.But the Taliban poured scorn on the lengthy ...
April 17, 2019
The valley of the dolls: Scarecrows outnumber people in Japan village
IN the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen.But yet the street appears busy, dotted with life-sized dolls that outnumber humans 10 to one, the product of a one-woman bid to counter the emptiness and loneliness felt in Nagoro, like many Japanese villages decimated by depopulation.Nagoro, around 550 km southwest of ...
April 17, 2019
Indonesia lures voters with ghouls and superheroes
DRESSED like Count Dracula, Yasim Adnan doesn’t look much like an election official, but neither do his staff who are decked out as mummies and spooky nuns with blood pouring from their eyes.The 37-year-old Indonesian presided over one of the creepiest ballot stations in the Muslim majority country on Wednesday as it held a giant election that featured some 190 million voters and 245,000 candidates vying for public office, including ...
April 17, 2019
India PM’s party fields candidate accused in bomb blast
NEW DELHI — The ruling party of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Wednesday it will field a candidate accused of involvement in a deadly 2008 bomb blast in the country’s ongoing national election.Pragya Singh Thakur, a 48-year-old female monk, is out on bail while she faces charges related to the attack that killed six people.She announced Wednesday that she will run for a seat in the city of ...
April 17, 2019
Google, Apple remove tiktok app in India after ban
NEW DELHI — The Chinese video app tiktok is no longer available in Google and Apple app stores in India after a state court prohibited its downloads, a setback for developer Bytedance Technology’s efforts to tap users in a key market.Tiktok, which allows users to create and share short videos with special effects, is hugely popular in India but some politicians say its content is inappropriate.A court in southern Tamil ...
April 17, 2019
S. Korea arsonist kills 5 neighbors as they flee fire
SEOUL — Five people were killed and more than a dozen others injured by a South Korean man who set his apartment on fire and stabbed his neighbors as they tried to flee the flames, police said on Wednesday.Police said the 42-year-old suspect set fire to his own flat, located on the fourth floor of a residential building at around 04:25 on Wednesday (19:25 GMT Tuesday), the police chief of ...
April 17, 2019
Indonesian President Widodo looks set for election victory
JAKARTA — Indonesian President Joko Widodo appeared set for a second term as “quick count” results from Wednesday’s election rolled in, but his challenger claimed that he had won the popular vote and urged supporters not to let his victory be snatched away.Data from private pollsters based on counts of vote samples were in line with opinion polls that had predicted a win for Widodo, a former furniture businessman and ...
April 17, 2019
India’s Jet Airways suspends all operations
MUMBAI — India’s debt-stricken Jet Airways grounded all of its operations Wednesday after failing to secure emergency funding from lenders, the carrier said in a statement.“Jet Airways is compelled to cancel all its international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today,” it said, adding that the decision would take “immediate effect.”Jet had asked a consortium of lenders led by the State Bank of India to urgently provide four ...
April 16, 2019
Japan, US struggle to trace crashed jet and its ‘secrets’
TOKYO — One week after an F-35A stealth fighter jet crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan, US and Japanese military vessels are struggling to find the wreckage and protect its valuable “secrets.”The Japanese jet vanished from the radar on April 9 over the Pacific as it was conducting a training mission with three other aircraft some 135 km east of Misawa, northeastern Japan.A defense ministry spokesman said that the ...
April 16, 2019
Thwarting fraud: Thousands to ‘crowd-source’ Indonesian poll results
JAKARTA — More than 10,000 people have volunteered to crowd-source election results posted at polling stations across Indonesia on Wednesday in a real-time bid to thwart attempts at fraud during the biggest single-day election in the world.Nearly 193 million people are eligible to vote for the Southeast Asian country’s president and thousands of legislative seats, a Herculean logistical feat many fear could be exploited by cheats.Tension over alleged election irregularities ...
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