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More than 80 farmers have been arrested in northern India for starting fires that contributed to the recent pollution crisis in New Delhi and other cities, officials said Thursday. Each winter the post-harvest burning of crop stubble covers swaths of the region in toxic smog, which combines with car and factory emissions to turn Delhi […]

The wife of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed “a lot of information” about the jihadist group’s “inner workings” after she was captured last year, a Turkish official said. The official said that Baghdadi’s spouse identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was in fact Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi. She was said to be […]

The US Justice Department has charged three people, including two Saudis, with spying on Twitter users critical of the kingdom’s royal family. The trio worked to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of someone prosecutors designated “Royal Family Member-1”, which The Washington Post reported was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the […]

Hong Kong pop star Joey Yung came under fire after she posted a selfie wearing a face mask on Facebook. “I never thought that a lyric and a selfie…would attract this storm. I am extremely sorry,” she said. Joey Yung Cho-yee has apologised for the social media post that some netizens in mainland China said […]

Popular K-pop boy group BTS are longtime fans of Girls’ Generation and even the first album purchase of some members was a Girls’ Generation album. Yuri, from Girls’ Generation showed support for BTS by attending their concert, much to the surprise and delight of the fans. She is not the first Girls’ Generation member to […]

by Tuwaedaniya MERINGING with Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI in Bangkok At least fifteen people were gunned down in an ambush by suspected Muslim militants in Thailand’s violence-wracked south, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, one of the bloodiest days in the 15-year insurgency. Thailand’s three southernmost provinces have been in the grip of a conflict that has […]

President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area, and said the United States stood ready to back its southern neighbor in a “war” on drug cartels. Gunmen ambushed the members of the LeBaron family — a large clan of […]

Just days before Prince Harry walked the aisle with Meghan Markle last year, he had an emotional ‘final call’ with ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, according to a royal insider. In May 2018, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot in a stunning royal wedding. The Duke of Sussex won hearts as he shed a tear […]

Goo Hara and Han Seung Yeon, both formerly from K-pop girl group KARA recently met up for a reunion. On Oct 30, Goo Hara posted a selfie with Han Seung Yeon on Instagram along with the caption:“Hwaiting to both of us! Let’s walk confidently in this difficult world. Seung Yeon unnie, why is your youthful-as-ever face so small? I […]

President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that Iran would resume uranium enrichment at an underground plant south of Tehran in its latest step back from a troubled 2015 agreement with major powers. The suspension of all enrichment at the Fordow plant in the mountains near the Shiite holy city of Qom was one of the restrictions […]

The US state of South Dakota on Monday executed an inmate who said that jurors at his trial were prejudiced against him because he was gay. Charles Rhines, 63, was put to death by lethal injection soon after the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal by his lawyers claiming that his trial was tainted. Rhines […]

In less than a decade, the number of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in Singapore has spiked to approximately 27% — from about 201,000 in 2010 to 255,800 this year. Today, every fifth Singaporean household has a maid. In 1990, the ratio was about one in 13, with about 50,000 maids then. With increasing affluence, a […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed a “high degree of trust” in Hong Kong’s unpopular leader Carrie Lam as the two met after months of increasingly violent protests in the semi-autonomous city. Xi’s show of support follows speculation that Beijing was preparing to remove Lam as city authorities struggle to contain pro-democracy demonstrations that have rocked […]

Popular Japanese boyband Arashi will visit Singapore on Nov 10, which coincide with the 20th anniversary of their debut CD release. It will be the five-man band’s inaugural visit to Singapore, as part of a tour titled Jet Storm. Arashi announced on their official YouTube channel in a live stream they will visit Jakarta, Bangkok, Taipei and […]

A prominent US magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her more than two decades ago sued the president for defamation on Monday after he ridiculed her as “not my type.” E. Jean Carroll, 75, filed the lawsuit in a New York court, claiming Trump’s denials of the alleged sexual assault had damaged her reputation […]