Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says she is quitting as leader of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after mayoral election defeats. “Our efforts weren’t enough and we let down all our supporters,” she said. Taiwan’s media report that the pro-independence DPP is likely to lose nearly half of the 13 cities and counties it won […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Saturday (Nov 24) claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that ripped through a marketplace in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region, as the death toll climbed to 33. The blast happened during a regular Friday bazaar in Kalaya, a town in a […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned on Saturday (Nov 24) after their bus plunged into a canal in India, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world’s deadliest roads. Police said they retrieved 28 bodies from the private passenger bus after it veered off the road and […]
MARAN, MALAYSIA (BERNAMA) – Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak on Saturday (Nov 24) denied that he had admitted to being cheated by wanted businessman Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, in connection with the 1MDB scandal, as reported by an online news portal. Instead, he said the Malaysiakini portal had spun his […]
JAKARTA – The Indonesian authorities have wrapped up the identification process of the victims of the crashed Lion Air plane. The head of the National Police Medical and Health Center, Brig Gen Arthur Tampi, said the team had identified 125 victims, Tempo reported. “There are still 64 victims that have not been identified,” Arthur said […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea said on Saturday (Nov 24) it had received sanctions exemptions from the UN Security Council for a joint survey on inter-Korean rail. It is the first step towards implementing an inter-Korean agreement on reconnecting railways and roads cut since the 1950-53 Korean War, as part of efforts to improve bilateral […]
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – At least 31 people were killed and 50 wounded when a bomb hidden in a carton of vegetables ripped through a crowded marketplace in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region on Friday (Nov 23), officials said. The attack took place during the regular Friday bazaar in Kalaya, a town in a Shi’ite-dominated […]
BERLIN/BEIJING/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – When G20 world leaders met for the first time in 2008 their mission was a desperate one – to rescue the global economy from the worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. They were successful. Ten years on, that picture of unity in the face of economic calamity is in […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German services union Verdi has called a nationwide strike at Metro AG’s (B4B.DE) Real hypermarket chain for next Monday to press a demand for its 34,000 staff to be covered by a collective pay deal. Verdi said in a statement that Metro had in June bailed out of the pay agreement so […]