'Missing' Indian clerics return safely to Karachi
Author: Associated PressSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489926974055149800 KARACHI, Pakistan: A family member says the two prominent Indian Muslim clerics who were reported missing during a visit to Pakistan earlier this month have returned safely, saying they were traveling in a remote area with no cellular service. Waziruddin Nizami said Sunday that his uncle Asif Ali Nizami, the custodian of […]
Labor drought in Europe’s east as workers go west
Author: Geza Molnar with Anca Teodurescu in Bucharest | AFPSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489897048183712700 BUDAPEST, Hungary: A decade ago, business was booming for Hungarian construction firm owner Geza Borgulya. He was making an annual profit of some five million euros ($5.4 million) and had around 60 staff including surveyors and bricklayers. Now, the 44-year-old has barely a dozen employees […]
Brexit puts EU lifeblood of British hospitals at risk
Author: Alfons Luna | AFPSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489897048223712900 LONDON: With British hospitals already struggling to fill their ranks, Brexit could make life even harder for the National Health Service as EU doctors and nurses either stay away or prepare to leave. The state-run NHS is hugely reliant on EU immigrants to look after aging Britons, and the latest […]
Indonesia deports 2 French journalists from Papua province
Author: APSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489920677784632400 JAKARTA: Indonesia has deported two French journalists for committing visa violations while shooting a documentary film in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, an official said Sunday. The journalists, Jean Frank Pierre and Basille Marie Longhamp, were sent home Friday through Mozes Kilangin airport in Timika, said immigration office spokesman Agung Sampurno. The pair […]
Three suicide bombers kill four people in northeast Nigeria
Author: ReutersSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489920277734604400 NIGERIA: Three suicide bombers killed four people and injured eight others in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a police spokesman said on Sunday. A man and two women blew themselves up when they were challenged by a member of the Civilian JTF, a government-approved militia group, just outside Maiduguri, […]
Another Turkish rally possible in Germany before referendum, Erdogan spokesman says
Author: ReutersSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489919502994523500 ANKARA: There is a possibility that Turkish ministers could plan another rally in Germany ahead of an April 16 referendum on changing the constitution, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said on Sunday, a move that could further heighten tension with Berlin. Turkey has been locked in a feud with both Germany and the Netherlands […]
Modi picks Hindu hard-liner to lead India’s most populous state
Author: ReutersSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489918022644390000 NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi picked Hindu hard-liner Yogi Adityanath, who has been accused of inciting violence against India’s Muslim minority, to lead its most populous state after his party won a landslide victory last week. Adityanath’s appointment to lead Uttar Pradesh was denounced by opposition party members. But officials of Modi’s […]
Tillerson ends China trip with warm words from President Xi
Author: Yeganeh Torbati and Michael Martina | ReutersSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489906491823969000 BEIJING, China: With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreement to work together with China on North Korea and putting aside trickier issues. China has been irritated […]
13 autoworkers get life in prison for 2012 India factory riots
Author: Associated PressSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489906491793968800 NEW DELHI: A court in north India has sentenced 13 factory workers to life imprisonment for taking part in violence at the country’s largest automobile factory that led to the death of a manager nearly five years ago. Four other workers were sentenced to five years in prison for the rioting that […]
North Korea tests newly developed high-thrust rocket engine
Author: ERIC TALMADGE | APSun, 2017-03-19ID: 1489906491813968900 TOKYO: North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough for the country’s space program. Kim attended the test at the Sohae launch site, according to a report Sunday by the Korean Central News […]
