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Over 2,000 march in HK commemorating Tiananmen massacre
Kyodo News, Published on 26/05/2019
» HONG KONG: Over 2,000 people in Hong Kong on Sunday took part in a rally to mark the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Chinese protester arrested after lighting fire at Japan shrine
Published on 12/12/2018
» TOKYO: A Chinese man from Hong Kong set on fire a makeshift memorial tablet in an act of protest on Wednesday morning at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and was arrested by police for trespassing, according to police and an activist group.
Meth trade forges unlikely link between Rohingya and Myanmar soldiers
AFP, Published on 10/05/2018
» TEKNAF (BANGLADESH) - Huge quantities of meth are seeding unrest inside Bangladesh's refugee camps, as jobless Rohingya turn drug runners for a criminal chain that stretches back to Myanmar -- and the soldiers who drove them out.
18 dead in Kabul hotel siege
Associated Press, Published on 22/01/2018
» KABUL: A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan's capital killed at least 18 people, including 14 foreigners, and pinned security forces down for more than 13 hours before the last attacker was slain Sunday.
Zimbabwe opposition leader killed in helicopter crash
Associated Press, Published on 19/01/2018
» RATON, New Mexico: A group of prominent friends, including a key Zimbabwean opposition leader and a Texas-based investor and philanthropist, was heading to a ranch in the US state of New Mexico when their helicopter crashed and burned in a remote area, killing five people aboard.
Six dead, transport cancelled by huge Europe storms
Published on 19/01/2018
» BERLIN: Violent gales battered northern Europe and beyond Thursday, snapping air and train links and leaving six people dead.
Pakistan police arrest man in rape, murder of 7-year-old girl
Reuters, Published on 17/01/2018
» LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl that ignited nationwide protests and outrage over allegations of government inaction, two police officials said.
Suicide attack in Baghdad kills at least 38
Reuters, Published on 15/01/2018
» BAGHDAD: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a busy street market in central Baghdad on Monday, in back-to-back explosions that killed at least 38 people, Iraqi health and police officials said.
Pakistani father of slain girl blames police for slow action
Associated Press, Published on 11/01/2018
» LAHORE, Pakistan: The father of an 8-year-old Pakistani girl whose rape and killing shocked the nation accused the police on Thursday of being slow to respond when his daughter went missing in eastern Punjab province.
Myanmar military admits soldiers murdered 10 captured Rohingya
Reuters, Published on 11/01/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar's military admitted its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim "terrorists" during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they had dug.