NEW DELHI – Two lawmakers from India’s ruling party were set to be disciplined on Friday after a fight using a shoe as a weapon went viral on social media. The event has caused embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a country where […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan intensified its crackdown against Islamist militants on Thursday, with the government announcing it had taken control of 182 religious schools and detained more than 100 people as part of its push against banned groups. The interior ministry said it was part of a long-planned […]
JAMMU, India – A grenade explosion at a bus stand in Jammu wounded at least 18 people on Thursday, police said, in an attack just weeks after a Pakistan-based militant group killed 40 paramilitary police in Kashmir, almost sparking a war. “I request everybody to maintain calm,” Jammu’s […]
SINGAPORE/BANGALORE – Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel) said it will buy roughly $525 million worth Bharti Airtel stock as part of the Indian telecoms operator’s plan to raise $4.6 billion through shares and bonds. Airtel hopes to use the money to cut debt and shore up its balance sheet […]
Arizona Senator Martha McSally, the first woman to fly in combat for the US Air Force, said Wednesday that she had been raped by a superior officer while in the service. McSally, 52, who spent 26 years in the Air Force and commanded a fighter squadron, revealed the […]
Tech giant Huawei on Thursday opened a legal front in its counter-offensive against US warnings that it could aid Chinese intelligence services, filing suit to overturn a US law that bars federal agencies from buying its products. Huawei said the case was filed in a US District Court […]
Iranian hackers working to penetrate systems, businesses and governments around the world have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, a report said Wednesday. Researchers for tech giant Microsoft said the attackers stole secrets and wiped data from computer networks after targeting thousands of people at some […]
A new exhibition of portraits by photographer Martin Parr opened on Thursday featuring pictures of “Brexit Britain” captured since the country voted to leave the EU. The display, at London’s National Portrait Gallery, spans Parr’s decades documenting the idiosyncrasies of mass culture and British identity, and includes previously […]
Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s top lawyer vowed Thursday to mount a “thorough” defence to restore his client’s reputation, as the “tired” businessman spent his first day out of a Tokyo detention centre recovering. “Of course he is tired,” Junichiro Hironaka told reporters camped outside his office. “He […]
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