South Asia
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NEW DELHI: Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare has lost five kilos (11 pounds) since he started fasting a week ago, his aides said Monday, adding they were "worried" about his condition.
Hazare, 74, is now in the seventh day of a hunger strike that he started in jail and then took public last Friday in a bid to force the government to pass stronger anti-corruption laws.
"He has lost five kilograms in the past seven days. His weight has come down to 67 from 72 kg," his close associate Manish Sisodia told reporters.
"Doctors say his health is okay but we are worried," Sisodia said.
Hazare, who is consuming only water, moved his fast to an open-air venue in central Delhi last week.
On Monday he was lying on a mattress on the venue's main stage, and did not address the large crowds as he had done on previous mornings.
Hazare is attended by a team ...
TEHRAN: The lawyer for two Americans convicted of spying in Iran said on Sunday he would appeal their eight-year sentence, which shocked their families who had hoped to see them freed after more than two years already spent in Tehran's most notorious jail.
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested on the border with Iraq in 2009 where they said they were hiking. They were found guilty of illegal entry and espionage, a verdict likely to ...
TEHRAN: Indian refiners will settle all oil debts to Iran by the end of this month, a business daily reported on Sunday, quoting a senior oil official as saying the sanctions-related problem that held up billions of dollars of oil income was over.
The head of international affairs at the National Iranian Oil Co(NIOC), Mohsen Qamsari, was quoted by Donya-ye Eqtesad daily as saying: "Upon an agreement between the NIOC and four Indian refiners, all their ...
NEW DELHI: The rapid rise of India's Anna Hazare from local activist to national anti-corruption saviour has not been without its critics, some of whom see serious flaws in both the man and his tactics.
The extensive and overwhelmingly supportive media coverage of Hazare's campaign for tougher laws against official graft has largely drowned out the dissenters, but they have not been silenced altogether.
One high-profile critic is Nandan Nilekani, the co-founder of software giant Infosys Technologies ...
TEHRAN: Tehran's prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi on Sunday confirmed that Iran has sentenced two American hikers to eight years in prison each, the ISNA news agency reported.
"Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been each sentenced to eight years in jail by the branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court," ISNA quoted him as telling a news conference. He said the verdict can be appealed in 20 days.
On Saturday state television quoted an informed judiciary source as ...
KABUL: An Afghan election body on Sunday threw nine lawmakers out of parliament in a long-running row over fraud-tainted elections last year, its chairman said.
"Nine people from eight provinces are reinstated and nine people will have to leave their seats," said Fazil Ahmad Manawi, chairman of the Independent Election Commission.
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KANDAHAR: A total of 35 Afghans were killed and 27 others injured on Saturday when a speeding bus overturned on a highway in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
The smash happened just outside Kandahar city in the Daman district of Kandahar province on the main road connecting it to the capital, Kabul.
Kandahar provincial governor Tooryalai Wesa blamed the loss of life on the "carelessness of an unprofessional driver" who was driving too quickly at the time of ...
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