SEOUL, Oct 17 (AFP): Nearly 400 Yemenis were denied refugee status by South Korea on Wednesday, months after their arrival on the resort island of Jeju triggered a populist outcry.Ethnically-homogenous South Korea grants refugee status to only a tiny fraction of those who apply, despite having been ravaged by war...
Read moreTEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP): Iran called new US sanctions against its paramilitary Basij group an act of "blind vindictiveness" on Wednesday."America's new sanctions are a clear insult to international and legal mechanisms and a result of the American government's blind vindictiveness against the Iranian nation," said foreign ministry spokesman Bahram...
Read moreCOLOMBO, Oct 17 (AFP): Outgoing Maldives President Abdulla Yameen told the nation on Wednesday he accepted defeat in last month’s elections, even as the strongman ruler lobbies the Supreme Court to call a fresh poll.In a televised address to the nation, Yameen made no reference to his controversial legal bid...
Read moreNEW DELHI, Oct 17 (Al Jazeera): Authorities in India's most populous state have changed the Muslim name of an historic city to one with Hindu overtones, local media reported.Allahabad, a city of more than one million people in northern Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, will now be known as Prayagraj, a...
Read moreKABUL, Oct 17 (Reuters): An Afghan lawmaker contesting this week's parliamentary elections was among four people killed on Wednesday by a bomb planted under his office chair, officials said, in an attack claimed by Taliban militants.Abdul Jabar Qahraman was killed as he prepared for Saturday's election, a senior government official...
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