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Ranil Wickremesinghe
Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, police have said.The charge relates to trips he took abroad while serving as president.He arrived at magistrates court in the capital Colombo on Friday, having already given a statement to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) earlier in the day.Wickremesinghe served as president from 2022 to 2024, stepping into the role after the country's worst ever economic crisis triggered a popular uprising caused his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee.He was widely credited with helping put the island nation back on the road to economic recovery.Wickremesinghe also served six separate terms as prime minister from the 1990s onwards.According to BBC Sinhala,...
August 22, 2025

Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested

Ahn Hak-sop believes the US alliance with Seoul has prevented Korean reunification
A 95-year-old POW wants to return to North Korea to die
SEOUL — On a blistering morning earlier this week, an unusually large crowd had gathered at Imjingang Station — the last stop on Seoul's metropolitan subway line that inches the closest to North Korea.There were dozens of activists and police officers, their attention fixed on one man: Ahn Hak-sop, a 95-year-old former North Korean prisoner of war who was making his way home, to the other side of the border that divides the Korean peninsula.It was what Ahn called his final journey — he wanted to return to the North to be buried there, after spending most of his life in South Korea, much of it against his will.He never made it across: he was turned away, as was expected because the South Korean government had said they did not have enough time to make the necessary...
August 22, 2025

A 95-year-old POW wants to return to North Korea to die

India is the world's third-largest aviation market
Staff shortages threaten flight safety in India
DELHI — India's aviation safety regulator is grappling with a staffing crisis that is severely affecting its ability to fulfil its mandate, a parliamentary panel has warned in a new report.The "profound and persistent shortage" of personnel at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) poses an "existential threat" to the integrity of the safety system, says the report, tabled in the upper house of parliament on Wednesday.The lawmakers were tasked with reviewing aviation safety in the aftermath of the 12 June Air India plane crash which killed 260 people, mostly passengers.The report doesn't mention the crash, but flags several other concerns including overworked air traffic controllers.The BBC has contacted the DGCA and the civil aviation ministry for...
August 21, 2025

Staff shortages threaten flight safety in India

Xi Jinping waves at a crowd during a rally in Tibetan capital Lhasa
China's Xi touts unity and development in surprise Tibet visit
LHASA — President Xi Jinping urged unity on a surprise visit to Tibet, appearing before 20,000 people to mark 60 years since China created the autonomous region after annexing it.In what is only his second presidential visit to the tightly-controlled region, Xi praised the local government for "engaging in a thorough struggle against separatism" - a reference to decades-old Tibetan resistance to Beijing.The visit to Lhasa, which sits at an altitude that could pose health problems for the 72-year-old, suggests a desire to stamp his authority over the region.His published comments did not mention the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who has been living in exile in India since he fled in 1959."To govern, stabilise and develop Tibet, the first thing is to maintain...
August 21, 2025

China's Xi touts unity and development in surprise Tibet visit

A photo provided by the Japanese Coast Guard shows crews battling the fire on the USS New Orlenas
Fire burns for 12 hours on US Navy warship off Okinawa
TOKYO — A fire burned aboard a US Navy warship anchored off Okinawa for 12 hours, injuring two sailors, a statement from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in Japan said.The fire aboard the USS New Orleans, an amphibious transport dock ship with a crew of more than 360 sailors and capable of carrying 800 troops, began about 4 p.m. local time on Wednesday and was extinguished early Thursday morning, according to the statement.But a statement from the Japan Coast Guard, which helped fight the fire, said firefighting efforts did not end until just after 9 a.m. local time and that an investigation was underway to determine whether it was fully extinguished.Two sailors suffered minor injuries and were treated in on-board medical facilities, the Navy said.When the fire broke out, the ship was at anchor...
August 21, 2025

Fire burns for 12 hours on US Navy warship off Okinawa

A fragile ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia has held even as they trade fresh accusations every day
A fierce war of words keeps Thailand and Cambodia on edge
BANGKOK — The guns along the forested Thai-Cambodian border have been silent for three weeks now.But a fierce war of words is still being waged by both countries, as they seek to win international sympathy and shore up public support at home. And a commonly-held view in Thailand is that they are losing."The perception is that Cambodia has appeared more agile, more assertive and more media savvy," said Clare Patchimanon, speaking on the Thai Public Broadcasting System podcast Media Pulse. "Thailand has always been one step behind."The century-old border dispute dramatically escalated with a Cambodian rocket barrage into Thailand on the morning of 24 July, followed by Thai air strikes.Since then an army of Cambodian social media warriors, backed by state-controlled...
August 21, 2025

A fierce war of words keeps Thailand and Cambodia on edge

Parts of Mumbai city are under knee-deep water
Heavy rain paralyzes India's financial capital Mumbai
DELHI – Heavy rainfall in India's financial capital Mumbai has disrupted the lives of millions of people, submerging roads and leading to flight and train cancellations.Many parts of the city remain inundated in waist-deep water, with videos showing residents swimming through waterlogged roads as garbage gushed out from clogged sewers.Authorities on Tuesday rescued nearly 600 people who got stuck on an overcrowded monorail system that stopped mid-journey. At least 23 of them had to be treated for suffocation, civic authorities have said.Most schools and colleges remain shut. Some 350 people have been evacuated from the city's low-lying areas and have been shifted to temporary shelters.India's weather department has issued a red alert for the city and its neighbouring...
August 20, 2025

Heavy rain paralyzes India's financial capital Mumbai

Fuga Bluemarine crude oil tanker lies at anchor near the terminal Kozmino in Nakhodka Bay near the port city of Nakhodka, Russia, December 4, 2022.
China snaps up Russian oil as Indian demand drops following Trump tariffs
HONG KONG — Chinese refineries have placed new orders for Russian crude that will be shipped from ports that typically supply India, as demand from the South Asian country for Moscow’s crude slips following US President Trump’s tariffs.At least 15 cargoes of Russian oil have been secured by Chinese refineries for October and November delivery, analysts said.China and India emerged as the top buyers of Russian oil following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which prompted Western countries to shun its exports.Trump in July threatened to impose secondary tariffs on goods from countries importing Russian oil to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.Earlier this month, he announced an additional 25% tariff on Indian exports to the US, on top of another 25% levy, for its Russian...
August 20, 2025

China snaps up Russian oil as Indian demand drops following Trump tariffs

Iran has stepped up its deportations of undocumented Afghan migrants
Dozens of Afghan deportees from Iran killed in bus crash
SINGAPORE — A traffic accident in western Afghanistan has killed 73 people, including 17 children, most of whom were on a bus carrying Afghan migrants deported from Iran, a Taliban official confirmed.The bus, en route to Kabul, caught fire on Tuesday night after colliding with a truck and motorcycle in Herat province, said Ahmadullah Mottaqi, the Taliban's director of information and culture in Herat.Everyone aboard the bus was killed, as well as two people from the other vehicles, he said.In recent months Iran has stepped up its deportations of undocumented Afghan migrants who have fled conflict in their homeland."All the passengers were migrants who had boarded the vehicle in Islam Qala," provincial governor spokesman Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi told AFP, referring to a town...
August 20, 2025

Dozens of Afghan deportees from Iran killed in bus crash

Tony Chung, who founded a pro-independence student group, has been granted asylum in the UK
Hong Kong summons UK, Australia envoys after activists granted asylum
HONG KONG — Two pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been granted asylum separately in the UK and Australia, prompting anger from the Chinese special administrative region's government.Hong Kong summoned the Australian and British envoys, who were warned by Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki against "harbouring offenders".Former lawmaker Ted Hui and student leader Tony Chung announced over the weekend that have been granted asylum in Australia and the UK, respectively.They were sentenced to jail under a national security law that Beijing says is necessary to maintain stability in the city. However, critics say the law is being used to crush dissent and instill a climate of fear.Hui fled Hong Kong in December 2020 while facing charges for his involvement in anti-government...
August 19, 2025

Hong Kong summons UK, Australia envoys after activists granted asylum

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