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September 19, 2018
Ousted Pakistan PM Sharif freed from jail on court orders
ISLAMABAD —Pakistani authorities released former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter from jail on Wednesday after a court suspended prison sentences they got in July over the purchase of upscale apartments in London.Supporters showered Sharif’s car with rose petals after he was freed from the jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, television footage showed. “The prisoners have been set free,” Ishaq Cheema, an official at Adyala jail, said.Earlier ...
September 19, 2018
Malaysia ex-PM arrested over $628m linked to 1MDB, to be charged
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s toppled leader Najib Razak was arrested on Wednesday and will be charged over allegations that $628 million linked to state investment fund 1MDB ended up in his personal bank accounts, officials said.Allegations that Najib and his cronies looted huge sums from the investment vehicle were a major factor in the shock defeat of his long-ruling coalition in elections in May, at the hands of a reformist ...
September 19, 2018
N. Korea agrees to inspections in bid to salvage nuclear talks
SEOUL — North Korea said on Wednesday it would permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, in a new gesture by leader Kim Jong Un to revive faltering talks with Washington over his country’s nuclear program.After a summit in Pyongyang, Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said the North was also willing to close its main nuclear complex but only if the United States ...
September 19, 2018
Global tech firms gear up to fight India’s planned data law
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI — Global tech companies plan to oppose new legislation in India that would require Facebook, PayPal and others to store user data in the country, arguing it will hurt investment and the business models of foreign and domestic firms.In July, a government panel recommended that all “critical personal data” should be processed in India, and presented a draft bill that could affect how global firms store customer data.Facebook, ...
September 19, 2018
Triple talaq now a criminal offense in India
NEW DELHI — India on Wednesday prescribed arrests and jail terms for offenders in a campaign to stamp out instant Muslim divorce, or “triple talaq”, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to woo women voters of the minority community.The Supreme Court in August last year outlawed the practice that had allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives by simply saying the word “talaq”, or “divorce” in Arabic, three times.Wednesday’s move ...
September 19, 2018
Calls grow for UN action on China’s Muslim ‘re-education camps’
GENEVA — France and Germany have called on China to close “re-education camps” in its restive far western region of Xinjiang where up to one million Uighurs and other Muslims are thought to be held for political indoctrination as pressure grows for UN action.Reports of mass detentions and strict surveillance of the Turkic minority in Xinjiang have sparked a growing international outcry since coming to light last month.Beijing says Xinjiang ...
September 18, 2018
Hindu group behind Modi’s rise in India opens up as elections near
NEW DELHI — A Hindu nationalist group behind the rise of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opening up to critics and supporters through a first-of-its-kind outreach program in New Delhi, preparing the ground for his re-election bid next year.The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the fountainhead of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that believes in a Hindu-first ideology, provided thousands of campaigners for Modi’s landslide victory in 2014, and ...
September 18, 2018
Level of Myanmar army brutality ‘hard to fathom’: UN probe
GENEVA — Myanmar’s army has used unfathomable levels of violence against minority Rohingya, UN investigators said on Tuesday, calling for the military to be removed from politics and top generals to be prosecuted for genocide.In the most meticulous breakdown of the violence in Myanmar to date, a UN team of investigators presented a 444-page report laying out in horrifying detail a vast array of violations committed by the country’s powerful ...
September 18, 2018
India’s singing village, where everyone has their melody
KONGTHONG - Curious whistles and chirrups echo through the jungle around Kongthong, a remote Indian village, but this is no birdsong. It's people calling out to each other in music - an extraordinary tradition that may even be unique.Here in the lush, rolling hills of the northeastern state of Meghalaya, mothers from Kongthong and a few other local villages compose a special melody for each child.Everyone in the village, inhabited ...
September 18, 2018
In Hong Kong, disposable fashion gets a recycled makeover
IN Hong Kong, more than 340 tons of textile waste is dumped each day into the city’s overflowing landfills, according to the city’s Environmental Protection Department.But a new textile spinning mill — the first to open in this former textile manufacturing powerhouse in half a century — aims to reuse that waste, harnessing pioneering recycling technology to try to make the fashion industry more sustainable.“These technologies may be the gateway ...
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