By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -A speeding bus collided with an oil tanker in Pakistan, killing 20 people in a fiery crash overnight, police and rescue officials said on Tuesday. “Three buses were racing. One of them rammed into an oil tanker,” police official Imran Shaukat told Reuters, describing the incident on a motorway …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has proposed to parliament to allocate 20.8 trillion rupiah ($1.41 billion) to build basic infrastructure at a planned location for its new capital city on Borneo island, Public Works Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said on Tuesday. This year’s allocation for the new capital city project is 5.4 trillion rupiah, he told a …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -A Chinese military survey ship docked at Sri Lanka’s Chinese-built port of Hambantota on Tuesday after a delay of several days because of opposition to the visit from India, which vies with China for influence in crisis-hit Sri Lanka. India had opposed the docking of the Yuan Wang 5, which …
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(Reuters) – Rescuers have recovered more bodies from the site of a fireworks warehouse blast in Armenia, raising the death toll from Sunday’s explosion to 16, the emergencies ministry said on Tuesday. Seventeen people remain missing, it said in a statement, after blasts ripped through the warehouse in a market in the Armenian capital of …
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SRINAGAR (Reuters) – A bus carrying personnel from India’s high-altitude border police rolled off a mountainous road and fell into a gorge in Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least six officers, police said. Kashmir police https://twitter.com/KashmirPolice/status/1559433896202158080 said on Twitter the injured were being flown to an army hospital in the Himalayan region’s main city of …
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(Reuters) – The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran’s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel “the Satanic Verses” has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad. The attempt on Rushdie’s life in New York on Friday is not an isolated …
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By Tim Kelly and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Fumio Kishida is expected to reshuffle his cabinet on Wednesday, as his party’s ties to the Unification Church have dented public support following the assassination of former premier Shinzo Abe last month. Abe’s suspected killer bore a grudge against the church, alleging it bankrupted his mother, …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China on Tuesday imposed sanctions including an entry ban on seven Taiwanese officials and lawmakers it accused of being “independence diehards”, drawing condemnation from the democratically governed island. The sanctions come after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan this month, a trip that China said …
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(Reuters) – A senior U.N. official is visiting Myanmar this week, the United Nations said, on a rare visit that comes amid domestic political turmoil and fraying ties between Myanmar and its Southeast Asian neighbours. Myanmar has been in chaos since the military overthrew an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his predecessor Scott Morrison had “undermined our democracy” by secretly appointing himself minister for home affairs and treasury during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the health, finance and resources portfolios previously revealed. Morrison, who stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party after …
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