YANGON: Myanmar‘s junta has jailed a Japanese filmmaker for 10 years for encouraging dissent against the military and violating an electronic communications law, a diplomatic
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Afghanistan classroom bombing death toll jumps to 43: UN
KABUL: The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on an education centre in the Afghan capital last week has risen to at least 43,
Taliban report mosque blast at government ministry in Kabul
KABUL: A blast struck a mosque at a government ministry building in Kabul Wednesday as workers and visitors were praying, a Taliban official said. The
Three dead after Rohingya refugee boat sinks off Bangladesh
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: At least three people drowned and nearly 20 others were missing off the Bangladesh coast after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank
Over 80 per cent of Bangladesh hit by power blackout after national grid fails
DHAKA: At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were left without power on Tuesday after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government’s power utility
Days after Kabul education centre blast, explosion reported in another Hazara-populated area
KABUL (AFGHANISTAN): Days after the Kabul education centre blast killed over 40 people, another explosion occurred on Monday in the western part of the Afghan
46 girls, women among 53 killed in Kabul education centre bombing: UN
KABUL (AFGHANISTAN): At least 46 girls and young women were among the 53 people killed in Friday’s blast at the education centre in Afghanistan’s capital
UN raises Kabul classroom bombing death toll to 35 as women protest ‘genocide’
KABUL: The death toll of a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said Saturday, as Shiite Hazara women who
Iranian whose ‘hair tying’ video went viral killed
TEHRAN: Hadis Najafi, a young Iranian woman, whose video of tying her unscarved hair back and stepping into the middle of a protest went viral,
Kabul Blast: At least 19 killed in suicide bombing at Kabul education centre | World News
KABUL: A Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief says 19 people were killed and 27 were wounded in a suicide bombing in a Shiite