NEW DELHI, Apr 02 (Agencies): Seven people have died amid violent protests involving tens of thousands of protesters from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community across India.They have taken to the streets to protest against a Supreme Court order that they say weakens a law designed to protect lower caste communities.Train...
Read moreBEIJING, Apr 02 (BBC): China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab mostly broke up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere above the South Pacific, Chinese and US reports say.It re-entered the atmosphere around 00:15 GMT on Monday, China's Manned Space Engineering Office said.Tiangong-1 was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit...
Read moreBEIRUT, Apr 02 (AFP): Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, belligerents — in particular the regime of President Bashar al-Assad — have been accused on numerous occasions of using chemical weapons.The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says it has probed 70 gas attacks...
Read moreISLAMABAD, Apr 02 (Agencies): Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai Monday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said. Malala made a surprise return visit to Pakistan last week more than five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls'...
Read moreTOKYO, Apr 02 (Agencies): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to visit the United States April 17-20 for talks with President Donald Trump, he said on Monday.Abe said he would ask Trump to bring up the issue of past North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens, during the US president's expected...
Read moreKANO, Apr 02 (Agencies): At least 18 people were killed and 84 wounded when Boko Haram jihadists clashed with Nigerian soldiers near the northeastern city of Maiduguri overnight, the emergency services agency said Monday."So far we have recovered 18 dead bodies from the two villages Bale Shuwa and Bale Kura,"...
Read moreDUBAI, Apr 02 (AFP): Yemen's Huthi rebels have violated international laws of war in their latest missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, which killed an Egyptian labourer, Human Rights Watch said Monday.On March 25, the Iran-backed rebels fired seven ballistic missiles into Saudi Arabia.Saudi authorities said their defences intercepted all seven,...
Read more17 school girls in Kabul hospital after poisoningLASHKAR GAH, Apr 02: Up to 17 students of an Afghan girl school were mysteriously poisoned in southern Helmand province on Monday, Daud Shah Safari, head of the provincial education department said. "Up to 17 students of a girl school were mysteriously poisoned...
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