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December 13, 2019
Roadside bomb blast kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan
GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Ten civilians, including four women and a child, were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.The explosion happened in the volatile district of Jaghatu in Ghazni province after the US and Taliban paused ongoing talks on Thursday."Unfortunately, in the explosion 10 people, including four women and a child, were killed," Ghazni provincial governor spokesman Aref Noori said ...
December 13, 2019
India protests spread over 'anti-Muslim' law
GUWAHATI, India — Protests in India against a new citizenship law that opponents say is anti-Muslim spread to other regions on Friday, a day after two people were shot dead by police in the northeast of the country, the epicenter of days of demonstrations.Police with batons and firing tear gas clashed with hundreds of students in New Delhi, television pictures showed, as Muslim protesters set fire to placards in Amritsar ...
December 13, 2019
NZ troops complete daring volcano mission to retrieve bodies
WHAKATANE, New Zealand — Elite soldiers retrieved six bodies from New Zealand's volatile White Island volcano on Friday, winning praise for a "courageous" mission carried out under the threat of another eruption.At first light, two military helicopters set off from Whakatane airport for the offshore volcano, where an eruption Monday killed at least 16 people and severely injured dozens more.The goal of the team from the bomb disposal squad was ...
December 13, 2019
Deadly India protests force postponement of Japan summit
GUWAHATI, India — India and Japan's leaders canceled on Friday a planned summit due to deadly protests in the northeast triggered by anger over a new law that will potentially grant citizenship to huge numbers of immigrants.Thousands of protestors staged fresh demonstrations meanwhile following several days of running battles with riot police that have left the streets of the region littered with burnt-out vehicles, rocks and other debris.Other smaller demonstrations ...
December 13, 2019
14 killed in van crash in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan — At least 14 people were killed in western Pakistan on Friday when a passenger van hit a truck loaded with smuggled fuel, police said, in the latest fatal accident on the country's notoriously dangerous roads.The early morning collision took place in Qila Saifullah district, about 200 km (124 miles) northeast of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.The van caught fire after hitting the truck, Abdul Jabbar, a ...
December 12, 2019
India deploys troops as protesters defy curfew over citizen bill
GUWAHATI, India — Authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet in northeast India Thursday, while police fired blank rounds at protesters who defied a curfew to demonstrate against contentious new citizenship legislation.The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), passed by the upper house on Wednesday, allows for the fast-tracking of citizenship applications from religious minorities from three neighboring countries, but not Muslims.For Islamic groups, the opposition, rights groups and others ...
December 12, 2019
Indian couple sentenced for spying on Germany's Sikhs
BERLIN — A married Indian couple living in Moenchengladbach were sentenced by a German court on Thursday after admitting to spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities for the Indian secret service.The couple, who are identified only by their first name and initials according to German law, admitted to having passed on information to intelligence services in a trial which began last month.Manmohan S. was handed a suspended prison sentence of ...
December 12, 2019
India's top court to probe police killings of rape-murder suspects
NEW DELHI — India's top court on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the police shootings of four rape-murder suspects, as speculation grew that four other men convicted of the infamous 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape would be executed soon.The men were killed in what police claimed was a "shootout" last week, raising fresh concerns about the alleged use of extrajudicial killings by Indian authorities.The accused had been re-enacting their alleged rape ...
December 12, 2019
Aussie PM breaks silence on 'troubling' smoke crisis
SYDNEY — Facing angry street protests and mounting political pressure, Australia's prime minister on Thursday broke a long silence to acknowledge "troubling" bushfire smoke that has engulfed his native Sydney for more than a month."I've lived all my life, pretty much, in Sydney and the haze that has come from those fires, I know has been deeply troubling to Sydneysiders," he said, ending weeks of studied silence.On Wednesday up to ...
December 12, 2019
NZ military set for risky mission to retrieve bodies from volcano
WHAKATANE, New Zealand — New Zealand's military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said on Thursday, as pressure from distraught victims' families mounted.Teams will move in "shortly after first light" on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances of another significant eruption in the next 24 hours had risen to 50-60 percent."They ...
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