Fri 19 Apr 2019: Pakistan’s prime minister reshuffled his cabinet Thursday, changing the portfolios of some key ministers just hours after the country’s finance minister stepped down amid a wave of criticism over government handling of a financial crisis that has sent prices soaring. Finance Minister Asad Umar said he informed Prime Minister Imran Khan […]
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Fri 19 Apr 2019: SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Voting in the second phase of India’s general election on Thursday remained largely peaceful amid massive security and a lockdown in parts of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Indian officials said the turnout was over 60% across 13 Indian states where voting took place. Kashmiri Muslim […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: The tragic murder of a school girl, lured onto a roof and set on fire by classmates for reporting sexual abuse by her principal, has provoked outrage across Bangladesh and beyond, with politicians and the UN voicing disgust. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was pinned to the ground by a group of students […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: Amid rising tensions, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he has called Pakistan’s nuclear bluff by launching airstrikes while also claiming that New Delhi has the “mother of nuclear bombs.” “Earlier, terrorists from Pakistan would come here and go back after conducting an attack. Pakistan would threaten us, saying it has […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen wearing Pakistani police and paramilitary uniforms ambushed a bus before dawn Thursday and killed 14 people after going through their ID cards and forcing them out on a remote part of a coastal highway in restive southwestern Baluchistan province, officials said. Hours after the ambush, a […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: At least seven hospitalised after 650 Rohingya men refuse food at a detention centre in Jeddah, activists say. Scores of Rohingya detainees inside a Saudi detention centre have gone on a hunger strike for the third time in recent months, activists told Al Jazeera. Almost 650 men, most of whom have been kept […]
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Wed 17 Apr 2019: The right-wing party’s offer of citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants has drawn widespread protests in the state. Guwahati, Assam – Three months ago, Jadav Das was among the men from the northeastern state of Assam who staged a naked protest in front of the parliament building in New Delhi. They stood, holding a […]
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Wed 17 Apr 2019: JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has won a second five-year term, preliminary election results showed Wednesday, in a victory for moderation over the nationalistic rhetoric of his rival, Prabowo Subianto. Vote counts from five independent survey groups showed Widodo with a clear lead over Subianto, a general during […]
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Wed 17 Apr 2019: JAKARTA – Unofficial quick count tallies of votes cast in the Indonesian presidential election on Wednesday (April 17) have placed the incumbent Joko Widodo ahead of his rival Prabowo Subianto by between eight and 10 percentage points, according to five pollsters. Quick counts by Jakarta-based Poltracking Indonesia gave Mr Joko – […]
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Wed 17 Apr 2019: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Chinese video app TikTok is no longer available in Google and Apple app stores in India after a state court prohibited its downloads, a setback for developer Bytedance Technology’s efforts to tap users in a key market. TikTok, which allows users to create and share short […]
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