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September 29, 2025
At least 40 dead in crush at political rally in India
COLOMBO – At least seven Buddhist monks, including three foreign nationals, died in a cable car accident at a Sri Lankan monastery on Wednesday, local police told CNN.
The monks were among 13 people traveling on the cable car at the Na Uyana Monastery in central Sri Lanka, which spreads over more than 5,000 acres of forest on a mountain range, Pansiyagama Police said.
The incident took place at around 9 p.m. local time (11:30 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, according to police. Of those who were killed, three were foreign nationals from India, Russia and Romania, officers said.
CNN has reached out to the foreign ministries of those countries for comment.
Images from the scene of the crash show monks standing in the forest next to the cable car’s tracks. The tracks themselves are on...
September 25, 2025
At least seven Buddhist monks killed in cable car accident at Sri Lankan monastery
September 25, 2025
Over 1,000 children fall ill from free school lunches in Indonesia
September 25, 2025
India imposes curfew in Ladakh after statehood protests turn violent
HONG KONG — Nearly 2 million people in southern China have been evacuated as a powerful typhoon hurtles into one of the world’s most densely populated coasts, having already unleashed deadly flooding in Taiwan.Typhoon Ragasa, which a few days ago was the strongest storm on earth so far this year, brought finance hub Hong Kong and swathes of southern China to a standstill on Wednesday, after barreling through remote islands in the Philippines and mountainous regions of Taiwan.Packing hurricane-force winds, the storm has left a trail of damage, triggering landslides, flooding and huge waves, and is now bearing down on China’s Guangdong province, where massive cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou are located.In Taiwan, at least 17 people are dead and rescuers were scrambling to locate 17...
September 24, 2025
Nearly 2 million evacuated as Typhoon Ragasa slams into southern China
September 24, 2025
Born in India, but not Indian: 'Stateless' man fights for citizenship
September 24, 2025
Gen Z uprising in Asia shows social media is a double-edged sword
SEOUL — A South Korean court has handed a 15-year prison sentence to the boss of a lithium battery maker after a deadly fire last year.In June 2024, a blaze at a plant in Hwaseong city, about 45km (28 miles) south of the capital Seoul, killed 23 people, including 18 foreign workers, and injured eight others.The court found the blaze was "an anticipated disaster" and that Aricell chief executive Park Soon-kwan and other executives had caused the deaths of the workers.It is the longest jail term imposed under the country's industrial safety law, which punishes owners or bosses of firms with at least a year in prison, or fines of up to 1 billion won ($717,000; £530,000), for fatal incidents.Prosecutors had sought a 20-year term, arguing that company executives had made...
September 24, 2025
Boss jailed for 15 years over deadly fire at South Korea battery plant
MUMBAI — In the past couple of weeks, some of Bollywood's biggest celebrities have sought to legally protect their "personality rights". The list includes director Karan Johar, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and her husband and actor Abhishek Bachchan.Personality rights, also called publicity rights, refer to a person's right to benefit, commercially or otherwise, from their identity or persona. This includes the person's name, image, voice, mannerisms or even a catchphrase or gesture that's unique to them.These rights also protect a person's identity from being misused or commercially exploited, and do not extend beyond the individual.So, a celebrity can profit from their fame by endorsing a product for a fee, but their image cannot be used by another...
September 24, 2025
Bollywood stars fight for personality rights amid deepfake surge
September 23, 2025
Mass evacuations as southern China braces for strongest storm of the year
