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Legislators in Australia’s most populous state voted on Thursday to decriminalise abortion after a fractious debate that threatened to divide the conservative government of New South Wales. The legislation revamping a century-old law that made abortion punishable by up to 10 years in prison was passed by a voice vote […]

A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the remote Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia Thursday, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck about 37 kilometres (23 miles) offshore northeast of Ambon in Maluku province at 8:46 am local time, at a depth of 29 kilometres, according […]

Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, whose Labour party has often raised alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, has reiterated his condemnation of violence outside the Indian high commission during protests on August 15 and September 3. Writing in the latest issue of ‘Asian Voice’, a leading British Asian […]

As their classmates set off to play after school each day, nine-year-old Sakshi Garud and her neighbour Siddharth Dhage (10) are among a small group of children who take a 14-km return train journey from their village in Maharashtra to fetch water. Their families are some of the poorest in […]

More than 80 university students in Indonesia’s capital were being treated at a hospital Wednesday, a day after clashing with police during protests sparked by a new law that critics say cripples the country’s anti-corruption agency. Officials at Jakarta’s Pertamina Hospital said that 88 students were treated for injuries that […]

Faking a divorce has been a ploy used by Chinese couples desperate to skirt the nation’s property curbs. But a family in the city of Lishui has taken the scam to extreme lengths, churning through 23 divorces and weddings in a month. The ruse was aimed at winning greater compensation […]

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at on Tuesday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile on the social media site to reflect Trump’s taunting remark. Late on Monday Trump retweeted a clip of the 16-year-old’s speech to a United Nations climate […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has authorized the release of a transcript of his phone call with Ukraine’s president that is at the centre of a growing controversy over whether he sought foreign help in smearing a political rival as support surged among Democrats to pursue impeachment. […]

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “Mission Kashmir” has failed and he admitted for the first time Tuesday that he was disappointed by the lack of response to his campaign to bring international pressure on India over Kashmir, blaming it on India’s appeal as a “market of 1 billion people” and Kashmiris […]

The death toll in the devastating earthquake that rattled Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and several cities in the country rose to 30 on Wednesday as authorities stepped up relief efforts. The epicenter of the powerful 5.8-magnitude earthquake, which occurred at around 4 pm on Tuesday at a depth of only 10 kilometers, […]

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted Pakistan in his presence for backing terror against India, US President Donald Trump on Monday deflected a direct question on Pakistan-based terror and again offered to mediate on the Kashmir issue if both countries wanted him to. During a meeting with Prime Minister […]

After global street protests demanding action on climate change, Greta Thunberg and 15 other young activists on Monday filed a complaint at the UN against five countries for not doing enough to ward off global warming. The complaint accused Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina and Turkey of failing to uphold their […]

Federal authorities said Monday they arrested an Army soldier who they accused of discussing with an FBI informant a possible bomb attack within the United States as well as the targeting of left-leaning activists and a media organization. Jarrett William Smith, a 24-year-old private first class infantry soldier from South […]

Britain, France and Germany joined the United States on Monday in blaming Iran for attacks on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, but the Iranian foreign minister pointed to claims of responsibility by Yemeni rebels and said: “If Iran were behind this attack, nothing would have been left of this […]

Detectives are investigating reports of thefts of about $350,000 worth of jewelry from residents in Manhattan’s Trump Tower. The jewelry was allegedly stolen from inside two apartments in the building where President Donald Trump owns a penthouse triplex, police said. A 33-year-old woman told police her $117,000 Graff diamond bracelet […]