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December 11, 2018
Indian president inks tech deals with Myanmar in key state visit
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — India inked science and tech deals with Myanmar on Tuesday, as well as pledging to train judges and build houses in crisis-hit Rakhine state, as Delhi cozies up to the strategically important Southeast Asian country.Both China and India covet Myanmar’s growing domestic market, natural resources as well as access to key ports.Delhi has helped finance a deep-water port in Rakhine’s capital Sittwe, as money flows in from ...
December 11, 2018
US returns war trophy bells to Philippines
MANILA — Church bells seized from the Philippines by US troops as war trophies over a century ago were returned on Tuesday, in a bid to turn the page on a difficult chapter between the historical allies.Giving back the three so-called Balangiga bells meets a decades-old demand from the former US colony at a time when the two nations’ ties have been rattled by President Rodrigo Duterte’s pivot to China.“Returning ...
December 11, 2018
Militants kill four Indian policemen in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India — Suspected rebels attacked a police post in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday killing four officers, police said, two days after soldiers killed two teenage rebels in the restive territory.In the latest incident of the region’s bloodiest year since 2009, the assailants mounted a surprise attack in Zainpora village of southern Kashmir valley and stole four rifles.They killed three police officers instantly and critically wounded another, police official Swayam ...
December 11, 2018
India PM Modi stares at biggest poll loss since coming to power
NEW DELHI — India’s ruling party looked set to lose power in three key states, official vote counts showed on Tuesday, likely handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi his biggest defeat since he took office in 2014, and only months ahead of a general election.The results in the heartland, rural states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh could force the federal government run by Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...
December 11, 2018
Thai junta lifts ban on election campaigning
BANGKOK — Thailand’s junta on Tuesday lifted a ban on political campaigning ahead of 2019 elections, more than four years after the restriction was imposed following the kingdom’s latest coup.One of the military’s first acts after seizing power in May 2014 was to outlaw political activity of all kind, as it muzzled opposition in a country notorious for its rowdy — and often deadly — street politics.But the ban was ...
December 11, 2018
US military declares five missing Marines dead after Japan crash
TOKYO — The US military said on Tuesday it had pronounced five missing Marines dead and was ending search operations nearly a week after two US military aircraft crashed off Japan.The announcement brings the final toll in the December 6 crash to six, with a seventh crew member rescued after the deadly incident.The crash involving an F/A-18 fighter jet with two crew onboard and a KC-130 refueling tanker with five ...
December 11, 2018
Dozens hurt in Bangladesh election campaign violence
DHAKA — Bangladesh’s election campaign turned violent on Tuesday with scores injured at political rallies across the country, as police fired pellet guns into crowds and stick-wielding mobs attacked rival candidates.Police said clashes broke out in at least seven major towns on just the second day of campaigning, injuring nearly 100 people who turned out to cheer the two major parties contesting the Dec.30 poll.The unrest follows a crackdown on ...
December 11, 2018
‘Majority of Aussie women sexually harassed at work’
KUALA LUMPUR — Two in three Australian women have been sexually harassed at work, with the majority of cases unreported, according to a survey released on Tuesday that highlighted challenges activists said prevent women from advancing in their careers.Some 64 percent of women and 35 percent of men said they had been harassed at their current or former workplace, according to the survey of over 9,600 people by the Australian ...
December 11, 2018
US sanctions three North Korean officials for alleged rights abuses
WASHINGTON — The United States said on Monday it had sanctioned three North Korean officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, for serious human rights abuses and censorship.The US Treasury named the men as Ryong Hae Choe, an aide close to Kim who leads the Workers’ Party of Korea Organization and Guidance Department; State Security Minister Kyong Thaek Jong; and Propaganda and Agitation Department head ...
December 11, 2018
Attack on Afghanistan forces kills 4 in Kabul
KABUL — At least four people were killed and another six injured after a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of security forces in Kabul early Tuesday, officials said, in the latest bloody Taliban-claimed attack in the Afghan capital.The blast took place in Paghman district in western Kabul as the convoy was returning from an overnight operation, interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said.“It is still not clear whether the attacker was ...
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