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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 14
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 13
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Bon appe-teeth
A horrified Australian traveller discovered a suspected human tooth in a meal on a Singapore Airlines flight, prompting the carrier yesterday to apologise and launch an investigation.
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Smoke signals
Ready with an ashtray at a railway station, taking away gifts of flowers and giving directions to staff, Kim Yo Jong has been rushed off her feet as personal secretary to her brother and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM
NO DEAL, NO PROBLEM AT TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT
Donald Trump summoned the world's media to Hanoi for a meeting with Kim Jong Un, travelled the long way around the world to get
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM
45 feared dead
Indonesian officials said yesterday dozens of rescuers were using spades and ropes to dig out around 45 people who were feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi that killed at least one person.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Pakistan PM urges talks with India to end crisis, avoid miscalculation
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called for talks with India and hoped "better sense" would prevail to de-escalate the dispute with its nuclear-armed neighbour following air strikes by both sides.
27 February 2019, 11:02 AM
Pakistan claims shooting down Indian jets
Pakistan shot down two Indian jets, a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces claims, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting leading powers to urge the nuclear armed rivals to show restraint.
27 February 2019, 06:50 AM
Heavy shelling by Pakistan on India’s Uri sector
The Pakistani army intensely shelled Indian posts across the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri Sector of Jammu and Kashmir but there were no reports of casualty, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting Indian officials.
27 February 2019, 04:50 AM
Pakistan minister urges 'better sense' from India
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says that "better sense" should prevail in India after Indian jets crossed into Pakistan and carried out what one Indian minister called an airstrike on militant terror camps.
26 February 2019, 06:34 AM
Japan to give $32.5m for Rohingyas
Japan has decided to give US $32.5 million for the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh due to persecution in Myanmar.
26 February 2019, 05:07 AM
Bangladesh’s forest getting destroyed for Rohingyas: FM
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says as over 1.2 million Rohingyas are living in Cox's Bazar district of the country, much of Bangladesh's forest is getting destroyed creating environmental disasters.
24 February 2019, 10:37 AM
Myanmar yet to create safe atmosphere for Rohingya repatriation: FM
Although Myanmar has agreed to take back eight lakh Rohingyas, it is yet to create a congenial atmosphere for their repatriation, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says..
23 February 2019, 13:22 PM
Suu Kyi woos investors to Rakhine
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine yesterday, saying the world had
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Muslim rebel chief sworn in as CM
The Philippines yesterday handed over the reins of a new Muslim-led territory to rebel leaders who waged a decades-long fight for autonomy, but are now tasked with securing peace and prosperity.
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Suu Kyi woos investors to crisis-hit Rakhine, decries "negative" focus
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi calls for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine, saying the world had "focused narrowly on negative aspects" in the state from which some 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since 2017.
22 February 2019, 07:34 AM
Rohingya Atrocities: Malaysia wants perpetrators punished
Malaysia wants the perpetrators of atrocities against the Rohingyas be tried immediately at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Myanmar has failed to act
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it is unfortunate that Myanmar has failed to create a congenial atmosphere to take back Rohingyas, despite signing an agreement with Bangladesh on repatriation.
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM
This India-Bangladesh Urs Special train has been in operation since 1902
On the morning of 17 February, carrying 2255 pilgrims, the Indo-Bangladesh Urs Special Train arrives at Midnapore railway station in West Bengal from Rajbari in Bangladesh.
20 February 2019, 05:09 AM
'Afghan peace talks will be affected'
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan yesterday said that peace talks between the United States and Afghan Taliban militants would be affected if India resorted to violence against Pakistan in response to a deadly bombing in the Kashmir region.
19 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Myanmar picks panel to reform army-scripted constitution
Myanmar set up a committee to discuss reforming the country's military-drafted constitution yesterday, pitting Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government openly against the powerful armed forces for the first time over the incendiary issue.
19 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Super snow moon, 2019's biggest supermoon, lights up the sky today
February's full moon will brighten the skies as the biggest supermoon of the year. The supermoon occurs during this full moon because it will be closest in its orbit to Earth. The super snow moon as it is being called will cross the skies today (Tuesday).
19 February 2019, 09:43 AM