TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian state TV television on Thursday broadcast a video showing two French nationals detained by Iranian security forces for alleged involvement in recent protests in the country. The video shows them apparently confessing to working for the French intelligence agency to “foment unrest” in Iran over the death ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it will provide “flood relief support” to the tune of $2.3 to $2.5 billion to help Pakistan cope with the devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods. The proposed support includes a $1.5 billion “countercyclical” loan from the ADB’s Building Resilience with ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Police in Bangladesh have recovered the bodies of three more Rohingya refugees who were passengers on a boat carrying around 100 migrants to Malaysia illegally that capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday. Md Hafizur Rahman, the officer in charge of the Teknaf Model Police Station, confirmed this to Anadolu [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Recent Chinese military operations in response to high-level US visits to Taiwan have “already destroyed” an unofficial sea border between the two sides, the self-ruled island’s defense chief has said. Taiwan’s Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told a legislative committee that Beijing has “already destroyed the median line...
KHOJAVAND, Azerbaijan (AA) – Another mass grave of Azerbaijanis killed and buried by Armenian forces during the first Karabakh war has been found in the Khojavand district. Anadolu Agency team captured footage of the remains of 12 Azerbaijani people in the mass grave in Edilli village of the district. Some bullet holes in the skull [&hel...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The US ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, paid an official trip to Azad Jammu and Kashmir for the first time since he landed in the capital Islamabad to take up his job. In an official statement, the US Embassy said Donald Blome’s visit to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Oct. 2-4 […]
TEHRAN (AA) – At least 490 people were injured as a result of a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan in the wee hours of Wednesday, according to local health officials. The powerful tremor shook the city of Khoy, 807 kilometers northwest of the capital Tehran. According to the Iranian...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh returned to normalcy Tuesday night after nearly seven hours as the power supply was restored after a record-long nationwide blackout. According to the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board and Power Grid Company, the main transmission line near the Jamuna River tripped, causing a national grid f...
Malang, Indonesia (AFP): Elite Indonesian police officers are under investigation over a stadium stampede that killed 131 people, including dozens of children, in one of the deadliest disasters in football history. As public anger grew, police moved to punish those responsible for the crush in the city of Malang that witnesses say started when...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladeshi coast guards recovered the bodies of three Rohingya refugee women and rescued 45 others after a boat carrying them to Malaysia illegally capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday. There were 85 passengers on board, said Noor Mohammad, a Bangladesh Coast Guard official working at the Baharchhara outpost in [&...
