KABUL (AFP) – Ms Fawzia Koofi was hesitant to face the Taleban militants who jailed her husband, threatened to stone her for wearing nail polish, and – when she became a high-profile MP and women’s rights champion – tried to assassinate her. But the trailblazing politician and mother of two daughters could not refuse a […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nippon Life Insurance Co, Japan’s largest private insurer, has increased foreign bond investment without currency hedge so far in the financial year to March and is likely to do so further in the next year, its chief investment officer said on Tuesday. The firm, which has total assets of 66.7 trillion yen […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – Indian fighter jets destroyed a major terrorist camp in Pakistan, the ANI news agency said, as tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals rose following an attack in Kashmir earlier this month. Quoting unnamed sources in the the Indian Air Force, ANI said a dozen Mirage 2000 Indian fighter jets dropped 1,000 kilogram […]
Pakistan’s military has accused India’s air force of violating its airspace, and says it scrambled jets in response. Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted: “Indian Air Force violated Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow.” He added that Indian aircraft “released [a] payload in haste… near […]
The outlines for a grand bargain between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are broadly in place. The question in Hanoi, Vietnam, this week is whether the two men can close the deal. Last June’s Singapore summit was criticised by many experts because Mr Trump failed to secure any concrete pledges […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pledged to raise the funds the government transfers to villages across the world’s fourth-most populous country to nearly US$30 billion (S$40.51 billion) over the next five years if he wins a second term in April. There has been debate over the effectiveness of the programme, called Village […]
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – President Donald Trump’s media headquarters for his summit with Mr Kim Jong Un was forced to abruptly move from a Hanoi hotel where the North Korean leader may be staying on Tuesday (Feb 26), according to Vietnamese authorities. Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a tweet that the White House media […]
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – “Guilty.” There was a gasp in the Australian courtroom as the jury foreman read out the first verdict on child sex offences against Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s treasurer, then stunned silence as the same word was repeated for each of the four other charges he faced. The jury of eight men […]
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – An Australian court has found Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican Treasurer and a former top adviser to Pope Francis, guilty on five charges of child sexual offences committed more than two decades ago against 13-year-old boys. The verdict was made public on Tuesday (Feb 26) following the lifting of a suppression order […]
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