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Bollywood actor's death grips India with frenzied TV coverage

Bollywood actor's death grips India with frenzied TV coverage

The demise of a young movie star has transfixed India like no other news in a year of bad headlines. The abrupt death of Sushant Singh Rajput has spurred a debate about the stigma of mental health, the rarefied insider world of Bollywood, and, more recently, condemnation of the media for the non-stop coverage of the duelling accusations between Rajput's family and his girlfri...

2020-09-09 13:57

Chinese-born Australian CCTV journalist detained in China

Chinese-born Australian CCTV journalist detained in China

A Chinese-born Australian journalist for CGTN, the English-language channel of China Central Television, has been detained in China, Australia's government said Monday.

2020-09-08 17:00

Duterte pardons US Marine in transgender killing

Duterte pardons US Marine in transgender killing

The Philippine president pardoned a U.S. Marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony. President Rodrigo Duterte said he decided to pardon Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton because the Marine was not treated fairly after opponents blocked his early ...

2020-09-08 12:12

Philippine court to hear appeal against early release of US Marine convicted of killing transgender woman

Japan's economy shrinks 28% in 2Q, worse than 2009 global financial crisis

Japan's economy shrinks 28% in 2Q, worse than 2009 global financial crisis

Japan's economy shrank at a record, even worse rate in the April-June quarter than initially estimated. The Cabinet Office said Tuesday Japan's seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product contracted at an annualized rate of 28.1%, worse than the 27.8% figure given last month.

2020-09-08 11:52

Experts warn China-India standoff risks unintentional war

Experts warn China-India standoff risks unintentional war

As a monthslong military standoff between India and China along their disputed mountain border protracts, experts warn that the nuclear-armed countries _ which already have engaged in their bloodiest clash in decades _ could unintentionally slide into war.

2020-09-06 13:43

India adds another 83,000, nears 2nd most in world

India adds another 83,000, nears 2nd most in world

The number of people confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus in India rose by another 80,000 and is near Brazil's total, the second-highest in the world.

2020-09-04 20:36

2nd crew member, dead cows found after ship sinks off Japan

2nd crew member, dead cows found after ship sinks off Japan

This handout picture taken on Thursday and provided by Japan's 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, Friday, shows the carcass of a cow floating on the sea surface. APJapanese rescuers found the second crew member and multiple dead cows Friday in waters where a ship carrying thousands of cows from New Zealand capsized and is believed to have sunk during stormy weather, coas...

2020-09-04 20:30

New Zealand has 1st virus death in 3 months

New Zealand has 1st virus death in 3 months

New Zealand reported its first death from the coronavirus in more than three months on Friday. Health authorities said a man in his 50s died at an Auckland hospital where he was being treated for the virus following a small outbreak in the city that began last month. New Zealand has reported more than 1,700 cases and 23 deaths.

2020-09-04 20:19

Malaysia bans arrivals from countries with over 150,000 virus cases

Malaysia bans arrivals from countries with over 150,000 virus cases

Malaysia will deny entry to people from countries that have reported more than 150,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on Thursday.

2020-09-03 21:06

Students in Inner Mongolia protest Chinese language policy

Students in Inner Mongolia protest Chinese language policy

Ethnic Mongolians, including students and parents, in China's Inner Mongolia region are demonstrating their anger in rare public protests against a new bilingual education policy that they say is endangering the Mongolian language. A high school student in the city of Hulunbuir said students rushed out of their school on Tuesday and destroyed a fence before paramilitary polic...

2020-09-03 16:05

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