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December 11, 2019
3 patients die as lawyers clash with doctors in Pakistan hospital
ISLAMABAD — At least three heart patients died on Wednesday after a group of lawyers attacked doctors at a cardiac hospital in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, officials and ministers said."Three patients including an elderly woman died after doctors failed to provide them timely treatment and remained engaged in averting the assault," Punjab provincial health minister Yasmeen Rashid said at a televised press conference in Lahore.A group of more than ...
December 11, 2019
Taliban bombers target key US Afghanistan base as talks resume
KABUL — Taliban suicide bombers targeted a key US military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday in a major attack that wounded more than 70 civilians, officials said, amid renewed peace talks between the United States and the militants.The early morning assault began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vehicle outside a hospital building near Bagram military base in Parwan province, north of the capital Kabul, according to local officials.Seven ...
December 11, 2019
Experts quit Hong Kong police probe, in blow to govt
HONG KONG — An international panel of experts hired to advise Hong Kong on the police response to huge pro-democracy protests announced Wednesday they were quitting, saying the watchdog was not fit for purpose "in a society that values freedoms and rights".The group's damning conclusion is a blow to Hong Kong's government, which has insisted its Independent Police Complaints Commission is capable of holding the force to account over snowballing ...
December 11, 2019
Train kills 2 elephants in India
KOLKATA, India — Two elephants were hit and killed by a passenger train on Wednesday in eastern India, officials said, with the animals' bodies decorated with flowers before being cremated at the spot.In the past five years, at least 26 elephants have been killed and scores more injured by trains on this stretch of track near the Nepal border, according to wildlife officials.The animals — one of which was pregnant ...
December 11, 2019
Malaysian police to quiz Anwar over sex assault claims
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim will be questioned by police over allegations he sexually assaulted a male former aide, officials said on Wednesday, the latest such scandal to tarnish his career.Anwar has vehemently denied the claims by his former research assistant Muhammed Yusoff Rawther, who says he was assaulted last year.The 72-year-old Anwar, seen as the likely successor to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, spent almost a decade in ...
December 11, 2019
Modi cleared of complicity in deadly Gujarat riots
AHMEDABAD, India — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not complicit in deadly religious riots that broke out in 2002 in one of the bloodiest episodes in independent India, according to a judge-led commission report released on Wednesday.Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when nearly 1,000 people — the majority of them Muslims — were killed in riots triggered by a fire on a train ...
December 11, 2019
Army deployed as contentious Indian citizenship bill debated
GUWAHATI, India — Hundreds of troops were deployed in northeast India on Wednesday as demonstrators went on the rampage in protest at new citizenship legislation expected to pass the upper house of parliament, officials said.The controversial bill will fast-track citizenship claims for immigrants from three neighboring countries — but not if they are Muslim.For Islamic groups, the opposition, rights groups and others this is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ...
December 11, 2019
Blast damages hospital near biggest US base in Afghanistan
KABUL — At least one person was killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded close to the largest US military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, damaging homes and a hospital under construction near Bagram Airfield, officials said.The attack — which has not yet been claimed — comes as Washington resumed talks with the Taliban on Saturday, three months after President Donald Trump abruptly halted diplomatic efforts that could end ...
December 11, 2019
Bougainville voters back independence by landslide
BUKA, Papua New Guinea — Voters backing Bougainville's independence from Papua New Guinea have won a landslide referendum victory, according to results released on Wednesday — a major step toward the troubled isles becoming the world's newest nation.Chairman of the Bougainville Referendum Commission Bertie Ahern declared 176,928 people — around 98 percent of voters — had backed independence with just 3,043 supporting the option of remaining part of Papua New ...
December 11, 2019
Myanmar's Suu Kyi rejects genocide claims in UN court
THE HAGUE — Former peace icon Aung San Suu Kyi told the UN's top court on Wednesday there was no "genocidal intent" in Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, despite admitting that the army may have used excessive force.The 1991 Nobel peace laureate rejected the "misleading and incomplete" allegations by The Gambia that Myanmar's 2017 military operation amounted to an attempt to exterminate the Rohingya.Thousands of people were killed and raped ...
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