China bridge collapse kills 12, leaves more than 30 missing
AFP A bridge collapse caused by torrential rains in northern China killed 12 people and left more than 30 missing, state media said Saturday. Large parts of northern and central…
Bangladesh protesters storm prison as police fail to quell unrest
AFP DHAKA — Bangladeshi student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates Friday as police struggled to quell unrest, with huge rallies in the capital Dhaka despite a…
Vietnam’s most powerful communist party leader dies
AFP Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country’s largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said. During Trong’s 13…
Two dead, 35 injured in India passenger train derailment
AFP An Indian passenger train derailed and several of its cars overturned on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 24 others with rescue and relief efforts ongoing. India’s…
Bangladesh protesters set state TV HQ ablaze as toll mounts, internet cut
AFP Bangladeshi students set fire to the country’s state broadcaster on Thursday as protests against civil service hiring rules escalated, with the death toll mounting to at least 39 and…
Student protesters set Bangladesh state TV alight amid clashes with police; at least 19 killed
ASSOCIATED PRESS DHAKA, Bangladesh— Police in Bangladesh clashed with student protesters attempting to impose a “complete shutdown” of the country on Thursday, following days of violent confrontations during demonstrations over…
China says it has halted arms-control talks with US over Taiwan
REUTERS WASHINGTON/BEIJING – China has halted nascent nuclear-arms-control talks with the United States, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in a protest of Washington’s arms sales to the democratically governed…
Police have reportedly arrested the son of Nigeria’s Borno State Governor Zulum for killing Chinese national during fight over woman at a nightclub in India. The government of the terror-ravaged state denied this in a statement
NEW DELHI, India/ABUJA, Nigeria – One Umar Zulum Umara, who is a son to Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Nigeria’s Borno State was reportedly arrested by police for killing a…
Snakes on a plate: pythons touted as protein alternative
AFP In a warehouse in the lush humid farmlands of central Thailand, thousands of pythons lie coiled in containers, rearing and striking at the glass as people pass by. They…
Six found dead in Bangkok hotel room in suspected poisoning
AFP Bangkok – Six foreign nationals were found dead in a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok on Tuesday, Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, with police suspecting they were…