South Asia
Pakistan PM Khan avoids ouster move but uncertainty builds
Imran Khan survived a move to oust him as Pakistan’s prime minister on Sunday, getting a reprieve when the deputy ...Security tight in Sri Lanka’s capital after state of emergency declared
Police and the military patrolled Sri Lanka’s capital city Colombo as shops slowly opened on Saturday – the first day ...Sri Lanka lifts curfew after violent protests over economic crisis
Police in Sri Lanka’s capital lifted a curfew on Friday after protests in which dozens of people were arrested and ...Taliban orders girl high schools remain closed, leaving students in tears
The Taliban on Wednesday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed ...No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 – data
Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of ...In Sri Lanka, as economic crisis worsens, two men die waiting in queue for fuel
Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid ...At least 58 killed in suicide bombing at Shi’ite mosque in Pakistan
A suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at ...From Tokyo to New York, thousands protest against invasion of Ukraine
Protesters turned out on public squares and outside Russian embassies in cities from Tokyo to Tel Aviv and New York ...Nepal police fire tear gas, water cannon to disperse protest over U.S. ‘gift’
Police in Kathmandu fired teargas and water cannon to disperse protesters opposed to a U.S.-funded infrastructure programme that was presented ...Indian court sentences 38 to death for fatal 2008 bombings
A court in India on Friday sentenced to death 38 people for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 that ...