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April 25, 2018
ICC apologizes as India rape guru tweet causes political row
NEW DELHI — Cricket’s world governing body apologized on Wednesday after leaving a sarcastic remark on a video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharing a stage with an Indian guru convicted of raping a teenage girl.The International Cricket Council went into damage control after its Twitter account posted the Hindu prayer “Narayan, Narayan” (Oh Lord, Oh Lord) beneath a video of Modi standing with Asaram Bapu.Asaram, one of India’s self-styled ...
April 25, 2018
Indonesia oil well explosion kills 18, injures dozens
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — The death toll from a blaze at an illegal Indonesian oil well on Wednesday has jumped to 18 with dozens injured, authorities said, warning there could be yet more victims.Images from the accident showed a towering flame shooting some 70 meters (230 feet) above homes and palm trees dotting a small community in Sumatra island’s Aceh province.Firefighters on Wednesday afternoon were still battling the blaze sparked ...
April 25, 2018
Taiwan veterans clash with police in pension protest
TAIPEI — Taiwanese military veterans on Wednesday scuffled with police as they tried to storm parliament in the latest of a series of protests against planned pension cuts.Hundreds gathered outside the legislature’s main entrance and some threw smoke bombs and water bottles at police guarding the building in central Taipei.They also tried in vain to hurl an empty wooden coffin into the parliament compound’s courtyard, television footage showed.“How can the ...
April 25, 2018
Indian court jails spiritual guru for life in rape case
JODHPUR, India — An Indian guru with millions of followers was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping a teenage devotee on the pretext of ridding her of evil spirits, his lawyer said.Asaram Bapu, one of India’s most charismatic and controversial gurus, was given the maximum sentence at a closed jailhouse hearing in Rajasthan state, where hundreds of police were on high alert for a backlash from his ...
April 25, 2018
Philippines expels Australia nun who joined protest rally
MANILA — The Philippines has revoked the visa of an Australian Catholic nun and ordered her out of the country in 30 days, an immigration official said on Wednesday, after President Rodrigo Duterte complained about her participation in protest rallies.Patricia Anne Fox, a 71 year-old superior of the Notre Dame de Sion in the Philippines, a congregation of Catholic nuns, was detained for a day last week after President Rodrigo ...
April 25, 2018
Ahead of talks with North, S. Koreans yearn more for peace than unification
SEOUL — As North and South Korea gear up for their first summit in over a decade this Friday, many South Koreans have lowered their expectations since previous summits, hoping for peace rather than any swift reunification.While often still couched in the rhetoric of eventual unification — especially by the North Koreans — this round of inter-Korean detente has seen South Korean President Moon Jae-in target peace and reconciliation as ...
April 25, 2018
Philippines police hold riot drills as Boracay closure challenged
BORACAY, Philippines — Philippine police preparing to shut down the Boracay resort island staged drills in riot gear on Wednesday, startling the laid-back beach community as workers mounted a last-ditch legal effort to halt the six-month closure.President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the holiday destination off-limits to tourists from Thursday, saying the tiny island has become a “cesspool” tainted by dumped sewage.As part of police drills, officers in full riot gear ...
April 25, 2018
Pakistan’s police exhume Italian’s remains over honor killing reports
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan police Wednesday exhumed the body of an Italian national over claims she had been murdered by relatives in a so-called honors killing, in a case that has made headlines across Italy.Police in the eastern city of Gujrat launched an investigation earlier this week into the death of Sana Cheema — of Pakistani origin and believed to have been in her mid-twenties — after allegations she had been ...
April 25, 2018
Taliban announce fresh offensive in apparent snub to peace efforts
Kabul — The Taliban launched their annual spring offensive on Wednesday, in an apparent rejection of calls for the militants to take up the Afghan government’s offer of peace talks.Operation Al Khandaq — named after a famous seventh century battle in the holy city of Madinah in which Muslim fighters defeated infidel invaders — will target US forces and “their intelligence agents” as well as their “internal supporters”, a Taliban ...
April 25, 2018
Unjust dessert? Japan calls on Koreans to wipe map off summit dinner mousse
TOKYO — Japan has demanded that South Korea rethink a mango mousse dessert it plans to serve at a North-South summit dinner on Friday which features a map of the Korean peninsula, including islands disputed with Japan, a recurring irritant for Tokyo.The mousse, subtitled “Spring of the People” in a publicity photo, features islands known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in Korea, which lie about halfway between the East ...
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