Nuri Mettursun died alone, five months into a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence. No family gathered around his bedside to hear his last words. His funeral was a clinical affair. No one closed his eyes gently, or bound his jaw closed, or washed him ceremonially before swaddling him devoutly in a...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif met IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in Paris on Thursday for release of halted funds ahead of the credit line’s expiry next week. The Paris pitch came amid claims back home that Shehbaz’s finance minister Ishaq Dar slapped a reporter who asked him questions on the stalled funds.
In Paris, on the...
NEW DELHI — Indian police are investigating a suspected fraudster who spent nearly two years in a five-star hotel without paying after reportedly bribing staff to fix records, local media said Thursday (June 22).
Mr Ankush Dutta booked a room at Roseate House hotel in New Delhi on May 30,...
MANILA : The Philippine central bank kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 6.25per cent for a second straight meeting on Thursday, and its governor hinted the rate could stay there longer with inflation on an easing trend.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Felipe Medalla said the central bank...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden aims to herald the start of a stronger U.S.-Indian relationship on Thursday by announcing a series of defense and trade agreements with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Washington attempts to counter China's global influence.
Biden is rolling out the red carpet for Modi, treating...
BOSTON — A multinational search team scanned the sea near the century-old wreck of the Titanic on Thursday (June 22), the fifth day since a tourist submersible went missing with five people aboard and with just hours to go before its air supply was expected to run out.
The minivan-sized...
BEIJING — At least 31 people were killed when an explosion caused by a gas leak ripped through a restaurant in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan, state media said on Thursday (June 22).
The blast occurred on the eve of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, when many in...
PARIS — An explosion potentially caused by a gas leak ripped through a building in central Paris on Wednesday (June 21), leaving four people fighting for their lives and causing a wave of destruction, officials said.
Rescue workers were in the evening still searching the rubble for two missing individuals...
BEIJING — The temperature in Beijing soared above 40°C on Thursday (June 22) for the first time since 2014 and broke the record for the hottest day in June, with heatwaves that had seared northern China a week earlier expected to persist through the weekend.
A weather station in the...
JAKARTA — Indonesia has changed where it will host Asean's first-ever joint military exercise to a location away from the South China Sea where several countries including China have overlapping territorial claims, its military said on Thursday (June 22).
The non-combat drills for members of the Association of Southeast Asian...
