North Korea has begun to rebuild its key missle-testing sites after multiple summits with President Trump over the dismantling of the program and the sites all together. North Korea swore to keep their promise of dismantling the sites and the program and followed through with it until the rebuilding which is thought to have begun during February or March of… Read more »
NEW DELHI — The planned city of Gurugram, one of India’s industrial hubs, has glass-sided office buildings and swanky, high-rise apartments. But now, according to a new report, it can claim a less desirable distinction: the city with the world’s worst air. India holds 15 of the top 20 spots in that category, according to the report, which was released this… Read more »
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has started rebuilding the facilities it uses to launch satellites into orbit and test engines and other technologies for its intercontinental ballistic missile program, according to American military analysts and South Korean intelligence officials. The revelation comes days after the breakdown of the second summit meeting between the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and President… Read more »
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — At least 16 civilians were killed Wednesday in a complex attack on a construction company in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. The attack started with an early morning suicide explosion at the entrance of a construction company in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province. After the blast, four armed attackers wearing suicide vests entered the compound and shot… Read more »
SEOUL, South Korea — When the armored train carrying Kim Jong-un back from his summit meeting with President Trump in Vietnam reached Pyongyang Station at 3:08 a.m. Tuesday, throngs of flower-waving North Koreans greeted their leader with “boundless emotions and excitement,” the country’s state-run media said. But Mr. Kim returned home empty-handed — without relief from international sanctions — prompting… Read more »
Last Friday, four men were convicted in the killing of a prominent adviser to Myanmar’s leadership who was shot in the head while holding his infant grandson at Yangon International Airport in 2017. The killing of U Ko Ni, who was the adviser, is widely believed to have been a political assassination, but the supposed mastermind of the murder has… Read more »
Four men were convicted Friday in the killing of a prominent adviser to Myanmar’s leadership who was shot in the head while holding his infant grandson at Yangon International Airport in 2017. The killing of the adviser, U Ko Ni, is widely believed to have been a political assassination. But the supposed mastermind has not been found, and what role, if any,… Read more »
SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian Parliament on Wednesday narrowly passed legislation that would let some asylum seekers being held on remote Pacific islands come to Australia for medical treatment, a blow to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who had strongly opposed the measure. Under Australia’s offshore detention policy, asylum seekers who try to reach the country by boat are barred from… Read more »
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan offered on Tuesday to investigate allegations by New Delhi that a Pakistan-based militant group was behind a deadly suicide attack on Indian troops in Kashmir, but he warned that his country would retaliate against any Indian military action. Mr. Khan’s comments were the first formal response by the Pakistani leader since the… Read more »
A fire that broke out at a building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has killed at least 69 people, fire officials said Thursday. Mahfuz Riben, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defense in Dhaka, told The Associated Press that the death toll had risen to 69 and that many had been trapped in buildings. “Many of the… Read more »