Hong Kong police have detained several pro-democracy figures including the well-known activist Alexandra Wong for trying to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. For years, Hongkongers held candlelight vigi…
続きを読むDrone footage showed authorities clearing up the wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in India’s eastern Odisha state, killing more than 200 people. India’s railways minister said the train crash was caused by an error in electronic signals t…
続きを読むIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has visited the site of a train crash that killed hundreds of people in the eastern state of Odisha. Footage aired on Indian news channels showed Modi arriving at the scene on Saturday, which was still crowded wit…
続きを読むRescue operations are under way after a deadly train crash in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Drone footage showed hundreds of rescuers searching for people between mangled carriages. According to South Eastern Railway, a passenger train was going …
続きを読むAt least 50 people have been killed and 350 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Expre…
続きを読むA new football league in Tokyo has been established with one strict criterion: all the players are aged 80 and above. In Japan, where people over 65 represent nearly a third of the population, active older people are challenging ideas about what they c…
続きを読むA Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a very rare high-altitude rescue, a government official has said. Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849-me…
続きを読むVideos shared on social media show protesters clashing with police outside a mosque in Yunnan in south-western China. Tensions rose after a ruling ordered parts of the Najiaying mosque to be removed and verified videos from Saturday show police officer…
続きを読むJustin Trudeau spread his legs to put himself at a similar height to South Korea national assembly speaker, Kim Jin-pyo, during a visit to the country.The move is known in South Korea as ‘manner legs’, meant to level the height between two people, and …
続きを読むG7 leaders have laid flowers at a memorial to the victims of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in a sombre opening to a summit overshadowed by fears of a potential nuclear conflict in Ukraine. As the heavy early morning rain began to ease, the summit’…
続きを読むThousands of people were evacuated to monasteries, pagodas and schools in Myanmar, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that tore the roofs off buildings and killed several people. Cyclone Mocha made landfall near Sittwe township in Rakhine state on S…
続きを読むJubilant supporters of Imran Khan erupted into song and dance after a Pakistani court ordered the former prime minister’s release on bail for two weeks following his arrest, which ignited deadly protests across the country. Security was tight as Khan a…
続きを読むPolice in Pakistan have arrested hundreds of supporters of the ousted prime minister Imran Khan for violence after his arrest on corruption charges, authorities said on Wednesday. The government said supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) …
続きを読むSupporters of Imran Khan protested across Pakistan, asking for the release of the former prime minister after his arrest in Islamabad.Imran Khan was appearing in the Islamabad high court when he was arrested by military personnel on Tuesday. Officers f…
続きを読むThe former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has been arrested by the military as he appeared in court in Islamabad to face charges in a corruption case. Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said the 72-year…
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