During an Australia Day function, the country’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard — and the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, had to be rescued after they were surrounded by as many as 200 aboriginal rights protesters at a Canberra restaurant. The protesters, from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, appear to have been angered by Abbot’s suggestion […]
Tensions have been mounting at the India-Bangladesh border following the discovery of a video showing Indian border guards torturing a Bangladeshi cattle smuggler. Shot on a mobile phone camera, the video contains graphic (NSFW) footage of several men wearing the uniforms of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) stripping a Bangladeshi man in his 20s completely […]
The driver of a bus wreaked havoc on the streets of the western Indian city of Pune Wednesday, plowing the vehicle through cars, pedestrians and anything else that got in his way. Police say the so far unexplained rampage began during the morning rush hour as children headed to school. At least nine people are […]
The Indian navy yesterday began their ten-year lease of the nuclear submarine K-152 Nerpa, agreed with Russia several years ago, and secured at a cost in-excess of 900 million USD. Reporting on the addition to India’s fleet, the Times of India announced the boat had been renamed to INS Chakra II. Indian naval officers assumed […]
Witnesses and a London-based exile group say police in southwestern China opened fire on several thousand Tibetan demonstrators Monday, killing at least one person and wounding many others. The rights group Free Tibet, which campaigns for Tibetan autonomy, quotes witnesses as saying the confrontation took place in western Sichuan province, at an intersection in a […]
China reported its second bird flu fatality in less than a month Sunday, following the deaths of one person in Vietnam and a toddler in Cambodia. Officials say the latest patient died Sunday in southwestern Guizhou province, after being hospitalized on January 6.
Palestinian police on Saturday freed a 20-year-old woman whose father had kept her locked in the bathroom of their house for nine years in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilyah. According to a police statement, officers received information that a father was holding his daughter inside a bathroom. Read more: haaretz.com
A crocodile swallowed a 10-year-old girl playing in a river in eastern Indonesia as her father watched helplessly nearby. It was the second death in the same place in two months, according to Agence France-Presse. Read more: globalpost.com
