Scores of students of a primary girl school were poisoned in Sancharak district of Afghanistan's northern Sari Pul province on Sunday, provincial director for Information and Culture, Mufti Amir Saripuli said Monday. "A total of 77 students, seven teachers, five parents and an employee of Faizabad
A Chinese warship came within 150 yards (137 meters) of a US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait in "an unsafe manner," US military officials said, as China blamed the United States for "deliberately provoking risk" in the region. US and Canadian navies on Saturday were conducting a joint exercise in t
The train derailment in eastern India that killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds more was caused by an error in the electronic signalling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks, India's railways minister said Sunday. ''Who has done it and what is the reason will come out of an
Pakistan's embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the powerful military and its intelligence agency of openly trying to destroy his political party, saying he had "no doubt" he would be tried in a military court and thrown in jail. Khan has hinted previously at the military's hand
Hong Kong police said on Sunday they had detained eight people near a park, four of them for "seditious intention and disorderly conduct", as authorities tightened security on the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the big
With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail accidents in decades, officials said Sunday. Investigators are looking into p
India on Friday urged Germany to send back a 2-year-old Indian girl who has been in its foster case system for more than 20 months, saying it infringed on "her social, cultural and linguistic rights." Ariha Shah was taken from her Indian parents by German authorities in Berlin in September 2021 wh
At least 261 people have died in India's worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country, reports Reuters. One train in Friday's accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in
South Korea's defence minister said on Saturday that some countries were "ignoring North Korea's unlawful behaviour", which he said threatens to weaken UN sanctions against its missile and nuclear programmes. China and Russia on Friday ignored a US call for the UN Security Council to condemn North
Nearly 300 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in one of India's worst rail accidents in years. Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in India in recent decades:
Trafficking of synthetic drugs in East and Southeast Asia is surging, with new smuggling routes for methamphetamine emerging and ketamine production expanding, the United Nations said on Friday. High volumes of methamphetamine continue to be produced in Shan State, Myanmar and trafficked from ther
The United States signed a trade agreement Thursday with Taiwan despite opposition from China, which claims the self-ruled island democracy as part of its territory. The two governments say the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade will strengthen commercial relations by improving customs, in
At least 233 people were killed and 900 were injured when two passenger trains collided in India's Odisha state, a government official said on Saturday, making the rail accident the country's deadliest in more than a decade. The death toll from Friday's crash is expected to rise, the state's Chief
