Category: Asia

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Flash floods have killed at least 32 people in western Afghanistan, destroyed homes and swept through makeshift shelters that housed displaced families, a government official said on Saturday. Flooding caused by heavy rains started spreading on Thursday and left a trail of devastation across seven provinces, said Hasibullah Shir Khani, a […]

China’s Huawei’s net profit grew 25 percent last year, the telecom giant said on Friday, as it vowed to “shake off outside distractions” amid a global US campaign to blacklist the company over espionage fears. Net profit rose to 59.3 billion yuan ($8.8 billion) last year, the company said in a statement. “Moving forward, we […]

Academy Award-winning actress and refugee activist Angelina Jolie pushed for the inclusion of women in peace talks to end the conflict in Afghanistan during an address to ministers and diplomats at the United Nations on Friday. Peace talks between U.S. and Taliban officials began late last year. However, some women fear the freedoms eked out […]

LONDON  A court in London has rejected bail for diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, whose jewels once adorned stars from Bollywood to Hollywood. Judge Emma Arbuthnot decided on Friday that Modi was a flight risk. The 48-year-old was detained more than a year after Indian authorities alleged he was involved in a $1.8 billion bank fraud. […]

Six baby elephants, trapped in a mud hole and separated from their parents, have been rescued by a team of park rangers in northeastern Thailand. The rangers came across the elephant calves on Wednesday afternoon as they were struggling to climb the pit’s slippery banks, according to officials of Thap Lan National Park. Some of […]

In a scene that could have come right out of ‘Top Gun’, India seems to have knocked its own helicopter out of the sky with a missile aimed at intruding Pakistani jets, according to media reports. A little over a month after Indian authorities claimed that 25 Pakistani fighter jets were detected attempting to breach Indian airspace, […]

MIAMI – Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has warned any nations contemplating anti-satellite weapons tests like the one India carried out Wednesday that they risk making a “mess” in space because of debris fields they can leave behind. Speaking to reporters in Florida during a visit to the U.S. military’s Southern Command, Shanahan said the […]

DHAKA, A Bangladeshi housing official said Friday criminal charges would be filed against the owner of a building where a fire killed 25 people and which had four upper floors constructed illegally. Minister for Housing and Public Work S.M. Rezaul Karim also pledged to take action against officials in his ministry if they were guilty […]

JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesia’s president has started beaming a hologram of himself to reach voters in key battleground provinces as he shuttles around the South-east Asian archipelago ahead of national polls. Mr Joko Widodo, running for re-election in the world’s third-biggest democracy, has a tight schedule so he and his vice-presidential running mate are projecting […]