By Akhtar Soomro DALORI BALA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Residents in a hilltop village in northwest Pakistan described how raging waters and rocks had swept through their homes after a cloudburst, as authorities said on Tuesday the toll from floods in the region over the past five days had risen to 365. Flash floods triggered by cloudbursts …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India and China agreed on Tuesday to resume direct flights and step up trade and investment flows as the neighbours rebuild ties damaged by a 2020 border clash. The Asian giants are cautiously strengthening ties against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s unpredictable foreign policy, staging a series of high-level bilateral …
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KABUL (Reuters) -A traffic accident in Afghanistan’s western Herat province killed 71 people, including 17 children, on Tuesday night when a bus carrying deported migrants to Kabul caught fire after colliding with a truck and motorcycle, provincial government spokesman Ahmadullah Muttaqi said. (Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar in Kabul; Writing by Ariba Shahid)
(Reuters) -India and China have agreed to resume direct flight connections between Chinese mainland and India at the earliest, the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The two countries had a standoff that began in 2020 and had strained bilateral ties, which impacted air travel between the countries. (Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India-China relations had made steady progress since his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in October, guided by respect for each other’s interests and sensitivities. “I look forward to our next meeting in Tianjin on the sidelines of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Japan’s defence minister discussed defence industry cooperation and possible purchases of Turkish-made drones during a visit to Ankara on Tuesday, as Tokyo expands the role of unmanned systems in its armed forces. Gen Nakatani is the first Japanese defence minister to make an official trip to Turkey, a NATO member country that is …
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TASHKENT (Reuters) -A prominent independent Muslim Uzbek cleric went on trial on Tuesday in Tashkent on charges of promoting extremism and inciting hatred against Israel, in one of the highest-profile cases regarding religious practices in recent years. Alisher Tursunov, widely known as Mubashshir Ahmad, faces charges of inciting religious hatred, distribution of materials that threaten …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s cabinet has approved the hiring of 10,000 Sri Lankan workers as it tries to address a labour shortage caused by Cambodian workers returning home in the wake of a deadly border conflict between the two countries, a Thai senior official said on Tuesday. Thailand’s ageing population and shrinking workforce has forced it …
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By Saeed Shah, Rajendra Jadhav and Shilpa Jamkhandikar ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Massive, sudden downpours of rain known as cloudbursts have struck Pakistan and India during this monsoon season, killing hundreds of people in the flash floods and landslides they have triggered. WHAT ARE CLOUDBURSTS AND WHY DO THEY OCCUR? By a widely accepted definition, a …
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By Saurabh Sharma, Chandini Monnappa and Utkarsh Shetti BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian police have exhumed human remains in a temple town in the country’s south, officials said, as part of an investigation into allegations that hundreds of murder and rape victims were secretly buried there from around the mid-1990s. The probe centres on Dharmasthala, home to …
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