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Foreign tourists walk past the closed Nana Backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024
Eight hostel staff detained in Laos over suspected methanol poisoning deaths
VIENTIANE — The manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained after six tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning.Local media said that police brought in the 34-year-old manager of the Nana backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng and seven employees for interrogation.The manager, Duong Duc Toan, has denied culpability as speculation around the hostel — where many of the victims stayed — has risen further.The arrests come after two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton and two Australians died after a night out on 12 November.Australian officials released a statement saying they believed the death of one woman was due to her drinking alcohol tainted with methanol, an ingredient sometimes added as a cheaper alternative to ethanol but which can cause severe...
November 26, 2024

Eight hostel staff detained in Laos over suspected methanol poisoning deaths

Supporters of Imran Khan set off for the capital on Sunday
Pakistan police clash with Imran Khan supporters heading to Islamabad
ISLAMABAD — At least one policeman has been killed and more than 50 injured, Pakistan’s authorities say, as officials try to stop thousands of opposition protesters reaching Islamabad.Scores of supporters of jailed former PM Imran Khan have been arrested and the capital is under lockdown for a second day.Khan has been detained for more than a year on various charges, but remains hugely popular despite his legal troubles.His wife, Bushra Bibi, told supporters on Monday the march would continue until her husband was freed.Roads to D Chowk – a key point in central Islamabad near government buildings, the Supreme Court and parliament – remain blocked with shipping containers to keep protesters at bay. The streets are lined with coaches that have carried police from around the country...
November 26, 2024

Pakistan police clash with Imran Khan supporters heading to Islamabad

Supporters of jailed former Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party gather during a protest demanding his release
Pakistan detains over 4,000 as Imran Khan supporters march to Islamabad
ISLAMABAD — Tens of thousands of protesters are closing in on Pakistan's capital Islamabad as part of nationwide protests calling for the release of former prime minister Imran Khan.Authorities have enforced a security lockdown for the last two days to block the protesters, whom Khan has called on to march on parliament for a sit-in demonstration to demand his release, while highways into the city have been barricaded.At least one policeman was killed and dozens on both sides wounded as Khan's supporters clashed with security forces outside the capital Islamabad on Monday, according to a Reuters report.The march is in response to a "final" protest call made by Khan to his supporters, where he also called on them to remain in the capital until the government addresses...
November 25, 2024

Pakistan detains over 4,000 as Imran Khan supporters march to Islamabad

Protesters reportedly torched vehicles and pelted stones at the police on Sunday
Four dead in violence over mosque survey in Indian city
MUMBAI — The northern Indian city of Sambhal is on alert after four people died and dozens were injured in violent clashes over a centuries-old mosque on Sunday.Clashes broke out between protesters and the police during a court-monitored survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid (mosque), a federally-protected 16th-century monument.Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state, where Sambhal is located, have registered four cases in connection with the violence and have suspended internet services and shut schools in the area for a day.The survey was ordered by a local court last week, hours after a petition claimed that the mosque had been built on the site of a destroyed temple.Videos and images of the clashes shared on social media show slippers, bricks and stones strewn around the mosque.Protesters...
November 25, 2024

Four dead in violence over mosque survey in Indian city

A Philippine Air Force helicopter drops water over shanty settlements ablaze in Tondo, Manila
Inferno destroys thousands of shanties in Manila’s biggest slum area
MANILA — A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours.Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing densely packed stilt homes in Isla Puting Bato, a squalid area of Tondo, Manila.The Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were destroyed and roughly 8,000 people displaced in the blaze that broke out at 8 a.m. Sunday and burned until 4 p.m.Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring or gas canisters.Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of Tondo, which is Manila’s largest slum area home to roughly...
November 25, 2024

Inferno destroys thousands of shanties in Manila’s biggest slum area

Migrants from India share water in the intense heat after walking into the US from Mexico in June
Indians risk it all to chase the American Dream
NEW DELHI — In October, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) sent a chartered flight carrying Indian nationals back home, marking a growing trend in deportations to India.This was no ordinary flight – it was one of muliple large-scale “removal flights” carried out this year, each typically carrying more than 100 passengers. The flights were returning groups of Indian migrants who "did not establish a legal basis to remain in the US".According to US officials, the latest flight carrying adult men and women was routed to Punjab, close to many deportees' places of origin. No precise breakdown of hometowns was provided.In the US fiscal year 2024 which ended in September, more than 1,000 Indian nationals had been repatriated by charter and commercial flights,...
November 25, 2024

Indians risk it all to chase the American Dream

Holly Bowes
Sixth foreign tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
BANGKOK — A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who have died after apparently drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.The family of Holly Bowles, 19, said it was with "broken hearts" that they confirmed her death, more than a week after she fell ill in the tourist town of Vang Vieng.Her friend Bianca Jones, also 19, and British lawyer Simone White, 28, from south-east London, were confirmed to have died on Thursday.An unnamed US man and two Danish women, aged 19 and 20, are also among the victims of the suspected poisoning, believed to be connected to bootleg alcohol.In a statement released to media on Friday, Holly's family said they were taking comfort from the fact she had brought so much "joy...
November 22, 2024

Sixth foreign tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos

A police officer stands guard at a checkpoint along a dusty highway in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
More than 40 dead after gunmen attack passenger vehicles in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — At least 41 people, including women and children, have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of 200 passenger vehicles traveling through a remote area of Pakistan.The vehicles were attacked as they traveled through the tribal district of Kurram in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, according to the area's deputy police commissioner.The gunmen initially targeted the convoy's police escort, the provincial spokesman said in a statement.Police were protecting the convoy following months of sectarian violence in the area, which has claimed dozens of lives this year.Police have told the BBC that 41 people were killed in Thursday's attack and an additional 16 more were critically injured.Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, the chief secretary of the Khyber...
November 22, 2024

More than 40 dead after gunmen attack passenger vehicles in Pakistan

Fake-alcohol deaths highlight SE Asia's methanol problem
SINGAPORE — Suspected methanol poisoning from tainted drinks has reportedly killed five tourists in a Laos holiday town in the past fortnight.A British woman, an Australian woman, a US man and two Danish nationals have died, while another Australian woman remains critically ill in hospital. The deaths remain under police investigation, but news reports and testimonies online from other tourists suggest they may have consumed drinks laced with methanol, a deadly substance often found in bootleg alcohol.Methanol poisoning has long been a well-known issue across South-East Asia, particularly in the poorer countries along the Mekong river.But despite foreign governments posting warnings about alcohol consumption in these places, there is still little awareness among the backpacker party...
November 22, 2024

Fake-alcohol deaths highlight SE Asia's methanol problem

It is believed the victims may have consumed drinks laced with methanol while in the Laotian town of Vang Vieng
Fourth tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
BANGKOK — Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos.The 19-year-old's family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday. Hours earlier, the US State Department told the media that an American man died in the tourist town of Vang Vieng.Two Danish women, aged 19 and 20, also died last week in Laos, Danish authorities confirmed, declining to share more due to confidentiality concerns.The deaths remain under police investigation, but news reports and testimonies online from other tourists suggest they may have consumed drinks laced with methanol, a deadly substance often found in bootleg alcohol.Jones's friend Holly Bowles is in hospital on life support, while a British woman is also reportedly in hospital. It is...
November 21, 2024

Fourth tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos

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