LAHORE: Tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore are at risk of respiratory disease because of poor air quality related to thick smog hanging over the region, an international rights group said Friday.Amnesty International called for “urgent action” for residents of Lahore in a bid to mobilize supporters around the world…
KUALA LUMPUR: A US-educated biochemist with links to Al-Qaeda and Daesh was on Wednesday released from prison by Malaysian authorities. Yazid Sufaat, who recruited militants for the terror groups and tried to help Osama bin Laden develop anthrax for use as a biological weapon, will remain under heavy police watch. The 55-year-old walked free from…
HONG KONG: A few dozen pro-democracy protesters remained holed up inside a besieged Hong Kong university campus for a fourth straight day on Wednesday as supporters took up online calls to disrupt the city’s train network in a bid to distract police.The violent standoff between demonstrators and police at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) rippled…
Philippine police say will arrest anyone flouting vaping ban The ban came days after Philippine health authorities reported the nation’s first vaping-related lung injury The devices are already banned in several places such as Brazil, Singapore, Thailand and the US state of Massachusetts Updated 1 min 26 sec ago AFP November 20, 2019 11:35 MANILA:…
BANGKOK: The billionaire frontman of Thailand’s anti-military bloc was stripped of his MP status on Wednesday over a media shareholding case, a court ruling that could lead to him being banned from politics and jailed for up to 10 years. Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and his upstart Future Forward party rode a youth-propelled wave in March elections…
ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was sworn in Monday at a Buddhist temple revered by his core Sinhalese nationalist supporters, following an election victory that triggered fear and concern among the island’s Tamil and Muslim minority communities. Rajapaksa’s landslide win split the nation of 21.6 million people on religious and ethnic…
ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was sworn in Monday at a Buddhist temple revered by his core Sinhalese nationalist supporters, following an election victory that triggered fear and concern among the island’s Tamil and Muslim minority communities. Rajapaksa’s landslide win split the nation of 21.6 million people on religious and ethnic…
HONG KONG: Hong Kong police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Monday to force back anti-government protesters trying to escape a university where hundreds are holed up with petrol bombs and other homemade weapons amid fears of a bloody crackdown.Dozens tried to flee the Polytechnic University after a night of mayhem in the Chinese-ruled…
DHAKA, Bangladesh: At least seven people were killed and another 25 injured after a gas pipeline exploded in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, police said. The explosion at Patharghata area in Chittagong district collapsed portions of a boundary wall of a nearby building, local police chief Mohammed Mohsin said. He said at least 25 people were…
‘Terminator’ Rajapaksa storms to victory in Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa conducted a nationalist campaign with a promise of security and a vow to crush religious extremism His triumph will, however, alarm Sri Lanka’s Tamil and Muslim minorities as well as activists, journalists Updated 1 min 29 sec ago AFP November 17, 2019 08:11 COLOMBO: Gotabaya…
ALBA, Italy: Rising global temperatures are worrying truffle hunters around the Italian town of Alba, where the most prized specimens can fetch twice the price of gold. This particularly warm October, eight out of 10 white truffles unearthed by Carlo Olivero with his trusty 3-year-old dog Steel were dark, withered and dried out. To stave…
GOMA, DR Congo: Assailants in DR Congo have killed 14 civilians in revenge for army offensives against Ugandan rebel strongholds in the east of the country, a local official said on Saturday.The latest killings, which occurred in the night from Friday to Saturday, take the total number of those killed in revenge attacks in the…
GOMA, DR Congo: Assailants in DR Congo have killed 14 civilians in revenge for army offensives against Ugandan rebel strongholds in the east of the country, a local official said on Saturday.The latest killings, which occurred in the night from Friday to Saturday, take the total number of those killed in revenge attacks in the…
GOMA, DR Congo: Assailants in DR Congo have killed 14 civilians in revenge for army offensives against Ugandan rebel strongholds in the east of the country, a local official said on Saturday.The latest killings, which occurred in the night from Friday to Saturday, take the total number of those killed in revenge attacks in the…
Cambodia to ban elephant rides at Angkor temples /node/1584386/world Updated 31 sec ago November 15, 2019 08:40 Cambodia to ban elephant rides at Angkor temples The Angkor archaeological complex in northern Siem Reap attracts the bulk of the kingdom’s tourists Apsara authority plans to end the elephant rides by 2020 Updated 31 sec ago AFP…
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will ban all elephant rides at the country’s famed Angkor temple park by early next year, an official said Friday, a rare win for conservationists who have long decried the popular practice as cruel.The Angkor archaeological complex in northern Siem Reap attracts the bulk of the kingdom’s foreign tourists — which topped…
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will ban all elephant rides at the country’s famed Angkor temple park by early next year, an official said Friday, a rare win for conservationists who have long decried the popular practice as cruel.The Angkor archaeological complex in northern Siem Reap attracts the bulk of the kingdom’s foreign tourists — which topped…
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Ahmed Sabrie woke up to find his house half-submerged in fast-rising flood waters. Frightened and confused, he herded his sleepy family members onto the roof of their home in central Somalia as scores of thousands of people in the town, Beledweyne, scrambled for their lives. Clinging to an electric power pylon by the…
BURRELL CREEK, Australia: The death toll from devastating bushfires in eastern Australia has risen to four after a man’s body was discovered in a scorched area of bushland, police said Thursday. Three others have perished in bushfires in New South Wales, the state worst affected by a series of catastrophic fires that broke out along…
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Ahmed Sabrie woke up to find his house half-submerged in fast-rising flood waters. Frightened and confused, he herded his sleepy family members onto the roof of their home in central Somalia as scores of thousands of people in the town, Beledweyne, scrambled for their lives. Clinging to an electric power pylon by the…
