Space agency chief says shooting down of satellite has created 400 pieces of orbital debris India’s destruction of one of its satellites has been labelled a “terrible thing” by the head of Nasa, who said the missile test created 400 pieces of orbital debris and posed a threat to astronauts onboard the International SpaceStation (ISS). Jim […]
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Pakistan and India traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, leaving seven people dead — three Pakistani soldiers, a Pakistani villager, an Indian woman and a girl and a member of the Indian paramilitary troops, officials said Tuesday. The fatalities were some of the highest since tensions flared between the rival nuclear-armed nations […]
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Dozen people were killed and more than 400 hundred were injured in the district of Bara after a massive rainstorm on late Sunday. Over two dozen people were killed in a severe thunderstorm that swept through parts of southern Nepal late on Sunday and hundreds more were injured, police and officials said. Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in a tweet said 25 people […]
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At least four students were killed in Afghanistan as a mortar shell hit their school in restive Ghazni province, an official statement said on Saturday. According to the statement issued by the provincial administration, a boys’ high school in the Andar district was hit by a mortar shell from unknown direction killing four students and […]
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President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his troops to “destroy” communist rebels Rights groups on Sunday condemned what they called a “massacre” of 14 farmers by police in the central Philippines as authorities defended the incident as a legitimate operation against suspected communist rebels. Police say that on Saturday the 14 men shot at officers who […]
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8-member group also to move against sympathizers of independence movement among government workers, including teachers Indian administrators have formed a new eight-member group to further crack down on pro-independence activists and sympathizers in the disputed Kashmir region, according to a Home Ministry order on Friday. The “terror monitoring group” has been formed to “ensure synergised […]
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KARACHI – At a historic market commissioned by Queen Victoria in Pakistan’s southern metropolis of Karachi, third-generation spice seller Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi complains that a move to clear illegal encroachments has left poor shopkeepers jobless. “My own business has been cut in half,” said Abbasi of the modernization drive ordered by the country’s Supreme Court […]
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s king has stripped fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of his royal decorations, citing his 2008 flight to escape serving a two-year prison term on a conflict of interest conviction and other legal cases against him. Thai media reported that the royal command from King Maha Vajiralongkorn was published Saturday in […]
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(ASIAONE) – A Chinese man found himself in hot water after he was caught slipping a dead rat into his soup, in a ploy to extort 5 million yuan (S$1 million) from hot pot restaurant chain Haidilao. In a report by Shanghaiist, the man surnamed Guo, went to a Haidilao outlet in Beijing with his […]
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NEW DELHI – Indebted Indian carrier Jet Airways will pay December salaries to pilots and aircraft maintenance engineers but for now cannot pay more recent overdue wages, its chief executive said on Saturday after pilots threatened to strike over payment delays. Jet Airways has delayed payments to pilots, suppliers and lessors for months and defaulted […]
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