South Asia
India launches airstrike inside Pakistan; Islamabad denies militant camp hit
India said its warplanes struck a militant training camp inside Pakistan on Tuesday, killing "a very large number" of fighters, raising risk ...Global support lets Bangladesh PM withstand election worries
Congratulatory messages are flowing to Bangladesh\'s Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Hasina, ensuring she will withstand the reverberating calls to investigate serious allegations of ...Sydney, Hong Kong kick off 2019 parties with dazzling fireworks
Sydney and Hong Kong put on stunning fireworks displays to welcome to the New Year, among the first in a wave of ...Bangladesh probes vote rigging allegations in election hit by violence
Bangladesh\'s Election Commission is investigating allegations of vote rigging coming from across the country on Sunday, a spokesman told Reuters, as polling ...10,500 arrests ahead of Bangladesh poll: opposition
Bangladesh police have arrested more than 10,500 opposition activists in a crackdown ahead of elections this week, opposition parties said Tuesday.Rohingya flee refugee camps in Bangladesh, as Myanmar prepares for first returnees
Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to be repatriated to Myanmar later this week have fled from ...Anti-India strike shuts Kashmir amid anger over deaths
Armed soldiers and police fanned out across much of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday as separatists challenging Indian rule called for a general ...Afghanistan braces for militant attacks as voters go to the polls
Afghans are bracing for more deadly violence on Saturday as voters turn out for the long-delayed legislative election across the war-torn country ...UN sends Sri Lanka peacekeeping commander home over alleged atrocities
The United Nations has asked Sri Lanka to immediately repatriate a commander serving in the peacekeeping force in Mali following allegations that ...At least 59 killed as train hits crowd in northern India
A commuter train traveling at high speed ran through a crowd of people on the rail tracks in northern India killing at ...




