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Hong Kong subway partly suspended after overnight crash 18 Mar 2019 - 09:56 am

HONG KONG: Service has been suspended on part of one of Hong Kong's main subway lines after an overnight crash during equipment testing....

China says 13,000 'terrorists' arrested in Xinjiang since 2014 18 Mar 2019 - 09:47 am

BEIJING, Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 "terrorists" in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said on Monday, in a policy paper defending...

Rohingya "lost generation" struggle to study in Bangladesh camps 18 Mar 2019 - 09:23 am

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Sixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for...

New Zealand firms consider pulling ads from social media after mass shooting 18 Mar 2019 - 09:14 am

MELBOURNE/SYDNEY, Some New Zealand companies are weighing whether to advertise on social media, as two industry groups urged them not to in the...

Pediatrician to be sentenced for assaulting 31 children 18 Mar 2019 - 08:21 am

EBENSBURG, Pa., A former Pennsylvania pediatrician is scheduled for sentencing Monday in the sexual assault of 31 children, most of them patients, in...

New gun laws will make NZ safer after mosque massacre, says PM Ardern 18 Mar 2019 - 08:12 am

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she would announce new gun laws within days, after 50 people were killed...

Remote Cape with 'world's cleanest air' offers smog respite 18 Mar 2019 - 07:58 am

Cape Grim, Australia, As much of Asia wheezes, coughs and sniffles its way through another smog season, one isolated and windswept corner of...

Dealer who sold arms to mosque killer rejects responsibility 18 Mar 2019 - 07:58 am

Christchurch: The New Zealand arms dealer who sold weapons to the suspected mosque attacker said Monday he felt no responsibility for the deaths...

Ethiopia says crashed jet's black boxes show similarities to Lion Air disaster 18 Mar 2019 - 07:50 am

ADDIS ABABA/WASHINGTON, The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people had "clear similarities" with October's Lion Air crash, Ethiopia said...

Flash floods, earthquake in Indonesia kill dozens 18 Mar 2019 - 07:49 am

JAYAPURA, Indonesia: Flash floods and mudslides triggered by downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia's easternmost province, killing at least 58 people, disaster...

Turkish man escapes New Zealand mosque terror by seconds 17 Mar 2019 - 10:52 pm

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: A Turkish national had a near-death experience in Friday terror attack in New Zealand. Mustafa Boztas, who was at the...

Trump stance on Muslims, Fox host in spotlight after mosque shootings 17 Mar 2019 - 10:52 pm

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Sunday championed a Fox News personality who made anti-Muslim remarks as his White House rejected any attempt to...

Pakistan salutes hero of New Zealand mosque shooting 17 Mar 2019 - 10:52 pm

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan bestowed a national award on one of the victims of last week's mosque attack in New Zealand who died along with...

White House aide says 'absurd' to link mosque shooter, Trump 17 Mar 2019 - 10:16 pm

WASHINGTON: A top White House official said Sunday that President Donald Trump "is not a white supremacist" and attempts to tie him to...

Israel court bars extreme-right election candidate Ben-Ari 17 Mar 2019 - 10:16 pm

Jerusalem: Israel's supreme court on Sunday disqualified the controversial leader of the extreme-right Jewish Power party, Michael Ben-Ari, from running in next month's...

Trump slammed for 'silence' on white supremacist threat 17 Mar 2019 - 08:51 pm

Washington: Democrats led by an Arab-American lawmaker attacked President Donald Trump's "silence" on the rise of white supremacy Sunday as reaction to the...

UK police: Stabbing near London is far-right terrorism 17 Mar 2019 - 08:51 pm

LONDON: U.K. police are treating the stabbing of a young man as an act of terrorism as the perpetrator was inspired by the...

New Zealand mosque attack: 5 Indian victims identified 17 Mar 2019 - 08:32 pm

Christchurch: Indian High Commission in New Zealand on Sunday confirmed that five Indians were killed in the Christchurch terror attack that claimed 50...