Nepal’s Prime Minister Oli admitted to intensive care unit of hospital in Kathmandu raising concerns country’s future. Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was discharged from a private hospital in Kathmandu late on Thursday after being hospitalised the previous day – raising concerns about his health and Nepal’s future. Oli, 66, was rushed to Grande Hospital in the country’s capital on Wednesday, with… Read more »
Order restored in Vakhdat prison after convicted ISIL fighters armed with knives kill three guards and five prisoners. At least 32 people, including three prison guards and 29 inmates, have been killed in a high-security prison in Tajikistan after convicted Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) fighters started a riot. The Central Asian nation’s justice ministry said the riot broke… Read more »
Raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has alleged that India has “invaded and occupied” Jammu and Kashmir and asked New Delhi to work with Pakistan to resolve the issue. The Malaysian prime minister in his address to the UN General Assembly on Friday said that there may be reasons for India’s action in Jammu… Read more »
The government of Bangladesh has recently put severe restrictions on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Many have had their mobile phones taken away. And some Rohingya children have been forced to drop out of Bangladeshi schools. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox’s Bazar. Video can be found here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/bangladesh-imposes-restrictions-rohingya-refugees-191015133210712.html
NEW DELHI: India, the world’s top palm oil buyer, is shunning purchases from Malaysia after the Southeast Asian nation’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticised its policy in Kashmir, sparking the latest trade spat in the region. Since then, many Indian buyers of palm oil have started shifting to Indonesian supplies amid concern that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will curb purchases… Read more »
Pakistan said on Thursday that it has “exclusive rights” over three Western rivers and any attempt by India to divert the flow of these rivers would be considered an “act of aggression”. Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal made the remarks during his weekly media briefing here in response to a question regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks to stop… Read more »
DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Canadian yoga pants specialist, Lululemon Athletica Inc, said on Tuesday it was investigating a factory in Bangladesh over the treatment of female workers making its clothes. Factory workers said they were verbally abused, beaten, forced to work overtime and paid about 85 pounds ($110) a month – less than the cost of a pair of… Read more »
(Repeats item issued earlier. The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) * GRAPHIC: India’s coal imports: tmsnrt.rs/33vF3ly By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Oct 16 (Reuters) – India’s coal imports are on track to decline for a third straight month in October, a drop that seems out of kilter with the ongoing struggles of state… Read more »
(This Oct. 15 story corrects second paragraph to say Iran economy would be 90% of its size two years ago, not 90% smaller) DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s economy is expected to shrink by 9.5% this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said, down from a previous estimate of a 6% contraction, as the country feels the impact of tighter U.S…. Read more »
KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least three people and wounded 27 on Wednesday when he set off explosives in a truck near a police headquarters in Afghanistan, officials said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, confirmed in a statement that the militants had used a large truck, packed with explosives in the attack in the eastern province… Read more »