(Al Jazeera)-The Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, attracting more than six million tourists a year. Although the monument attracts more tourists than any other site in India, it seems it is out of favour with the government of Uttar Pradesh (UP), where it is located. The iconic monument, a UNESCO world heritage site… Read more »
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir(Al Jazeera) – Two Indian Air Force commandos and two separatists have been killed in a gun battle in Bandipora district of Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. “The two commandos succumbed to their injuries,” Director General of the State Police Shesh Paul Vaid told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German intelligence agencies have warned German companies that Iran is still trying to circumvent restrictions on the sale of dual-use items for its rocket and missile technology program, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The BfV domestic intelligence agency reminded German firms in the document that sales of certain technologies remained illegal despite sanctions… Read more »
I think that the countries in this region are gradually becoming a better place. The Rohingyan’s, while refugees, are being taken care of by many countries and NGO’s who rushed to their aid. after being essentially “ethnic cleansed” these people have been oppressed and forced out of their country and it’s warming to see the world coming together to help… Read more »
Aljazeera As Nepal woke up this month from the slumber of Dashain holidays, a political bombshell sent alarm bells ringing across the country. Nepal’s communist parties announced that they were forming a pan-leftist alliance, a combined communist force that would eventually become Nepal’s single communist party. The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and the Nepal Communist Party (United), the… Read more »
Aljazeera The governments of Iraq, Turkey and Iran have joined ranks in announcing new measures against Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG. This follows last month’s controversial referendum on the future Kurdish secession from Baghdad. The nonbinding vote result was celebrated by Kurds in Iranian border towns in support of a bigger Kurdish dream. Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports from… Read more »
Aljazeera Bangladeshi government, UN agencies, and a number of NGOs have launched a massive vaccination campaign in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar to save hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from the spread of cholera outbreak. Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health, supported by The World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and other NGOs, distributed oral vaccine to 88,000 Rohingya on Tuesday in a large-scale… Read more »
From: Reuters CHAMAN/QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Pashtun tribal people who for decades ignored the invisible line that bisects their dusty villages and demarcates the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier are bracing for a Berlin Wall-style divide of their neighborhoods. Pakistan, worried by Islamist attacks, is building a fence to prevent militants criss-crossing the porous 2,500 km (1,500 mile) frontier along the… Read more »
From: Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – A tough line from President Donald Trump has been met by a show of unity from both sides of Iran’s political divide, uniting hardliners who cast the United States as an implacable enemy with pragmatists who seek rapprochement with the West. Iran, which has kept up a steady drumbeat of angry statements for days, lashed… Read more »
From: New York Times GENEVA — United Nations officials struggling to mobilize aid for more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar in recent weeks have reported another surge of arrivals in Bangladesh, and warned on Tuesday that the crisis could worsen. More than 11,000 people crossed the border into Bangladesh on Monday, the United Nations… Read more »