ISTANBUL (AA) – A suicide bombing in Afghanistan killed three people and injured 12 others on Thursday, according to police. Police official Asadullah Jamshid told Kabul-based Tolo News that the bomber exploded near a branch of Kabul Bank in the southern Kandahar city. Many people were gathered outside the bank building when the incident happe...
Meulaboh, Indonesia – AFP Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded on the rusty hull of a capsized ship were rescued Thursday after the dehydrated and sunburnt group had drifted at sea for more than a day. Those rescued were 69 men, women and children, some of whom had been at sea for weeks on a rickety […]
Kabul, Afghanistan – – AFP Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls still remaining out of secondary-level classes for a third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 following the end of decades long US [&hellip...
Jakarta, Indonesia – AFP Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto has been elected as president of the world’s third-biggest democracy, the elections commission said Wednesday, beating two rivals who have vowed to file a legal complaint about the vote. The fiery defence minister and his vice-presidential running mate Gibran Rakabuming Ra...
Quetta, Pakistan – AFP Security forces killed at least seven militants on Wednesday as they tried to storm the offices of a Pakistan port considered a cornerstone of China’s investment in the nation, officials said. Pakistan has for decades battled a simmering insurgency in southwestern Balochistan province, where separatists hosti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kabul summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in the country on Monday after Pakistan launched pre-dawn air strikes inside Afghanistan that killed at least eight people, an official statement said. Interim Afghan Foreign Ministry said Kabul lodged a protest with Islamabad over the attacks. Earlier on Monday, interim Afghan ad...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistani military aircraft struck homes in two provinces of Afghanistan in pre-dawn attacks on Monday, interim Afghan spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. Kabul said its forces retaliated against the airstrikes by hitting Pakistani military installations. Condemning the attacks, Mujahid said eight people, three children an...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – AFP Saodat Shermatova “cried with joy” after Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic, lifted a ban last month on women working as bus drivers. “I was waiting a long time,” said the 49-year-old, who used to work in public transport maintenance in the Muslim state’s capital, Tashkent. Sherm...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Afghanistan is one of several countries around the world in the grip of a food crisis, where a mix of politics, economics and nature’s ravages is taking a heavy toll on vast sections of a vulnerable population. In a country emerging from decades of war and turmoil, women and children are among […]
Malé, Maldives – AFP India has begun withdrawing military personnel operating surveillance aircraft in the Maldives after the new pro-China president ordered them to leave, local media reported Tuesday. The Mihaaru newspaper reported that 25 Indian troops deployed in the southernmost atoll of Addu had left the archipelago ahead of March ...