ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani military accused Indian border forces of killing at least four civilians, including two women during “unprovoked” shelling and firing along the eastern border between the two nuclear-armed countries.
In a statement, Pakistani army’s media-wing -- the Inter Services Public Relations -- said the incident took place in Bini Sulariyan Village near Sialkot’s...
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - Security forces are on alert for rallies Thursday, around the country to commemorate the 45th anniversary of martial law on Sept. 21, 1972 by the late former dictator President Ferdinand Marcos.
President Rodrigo Duterte declared September 21, Thursday, a “National Day of Protest” and suspended work of government offices as well as classes in public schools....
KARACHI, Pakistan - A judge on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar after he failed to appear in court to answer a corruption case, local media reported.
Dar had been due to appear in an Islamabad court on Wednesday over allegations from the National Accountability Bureau that he possessed assets beyond his declared sources of income, Geo TV News said.
Dar’s protocol...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - The Indonesian government has closed Ibn Mas'ud Islamic Boarding School in Bogor, West Java, over signs of its involvement in terrorist networks and teaching radicalism, a spokesman for Amnesty International said Wednesday.
"Yes, Ibnu Mas'ud was closed," Haeril Halim told Anadolu Agency.
Alghiffari Aqsa, director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, said there are...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Three more members of the Daesh-linked Abu Sayyaf group have surrendered to government troops in the nation’s troubled southern region, bringing the total number to 114, an official said Wednesday.
The militants under slain Abu Sayyaf sub- leader Alhabsy Misaya, blamed by the military for bomb attacks and a string of kidnappings involving foreigners, yielded to troops in Sulu,...
WASHINGTON - Myanmar's de facto leader must act to stop the Rohingya crisis, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Tuesday.
"Aung San Suu Kyi has long been dismissive of human rights concerns," Senator Bob Corker said in a statement.
"She had yet another opportunity today to stand up for the Rohingya minority in Burma but instead refused to acknowledge the military’s...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At least five people were killed and eight wounded in an explosion in southern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said.
Security forces recovered a huge cache of explosives inside a cement factory in Sukkur city, less than 500 kilometers (310.6 miles) north of commercial capital Karachi.
An explosion occurred as the bomb disposal squad was trying to defuse it, Feroze Shah, the...
GENEVA - About 421,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed from Myanmar to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, the UN said on Tuesday.
"Many of the new arrivals, who walked for days through jungle in intense heat and monsoon rains, are already sick and malnourished by the time they reach the teeming settlements of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," Joel Millman, spokesman for the UN’s International Agency for...
Doctors in the western Indian state of Gujarat have successfully extracted seven teeth from a one-month old infant.
"The baby is doing fine now," dental surgeon Dr Meet Ramatri, who carried out the operation in August told BBC Hindi's Sushila Singh.
He said that the procedure was carried out in two stages. They first extracted four teeth, and then the other three.
The baby's teeth were...
Beijing has become the latest city in China to ban new shared bikes as the country battles against two-wheel traffic chaos and safety concerns in urban areas.
New deliveries of bikes to the city's 15 sharing schemes will be suspended, a government statement on Thursday said.
Riders can already access nearly 2.4 million shared cycles in Beijing.
It joins other Chinese cities in trying to...
