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HEART: Iranian guards fired on a large group of Afghan migrants illegally crossing the border overnight, killing at least nine people, Afghan officials said on Saturday.Hostility to the US role in Afghanistan, regional ambitions and an economy choked by Western sanctions have contributed to a tough Iranian policy against Afghan migrants who flee war and seek work in their more prosperous neighbour.The Iranian Interior Ministry in Tehran declined to comment. Iranian officials in Kabul could not be reached.Around 300 Afghan men were trying to make their way from Afghanistan's western Farah province into Iranian territory when the guards opened fire, witnesses and officials said."Nine Afghans were killed, but the number may increase," said Abdul Samad Khan, district governor of Lash-e-Joveyn in Farah province near the Iranian border.Farah police chief Abdul Hakim Angar put the death toll at 10 and eight wounded. Five wounded men lay in hospital beds in the ...
SAVAR: Bangladeshi doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing "great" and had been reunited with her family.Reshma, 18, a seamstress dug out from the rubble of the garment factory complex Friday, "never gave up hope" she would be rescued from the ruins of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, army doctor Fakrul Islam told AFP."She's doing great," he said after speaking ...
SAVAR: Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex on Friday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble.Hours after officials had announced that the death toll had surged past the 1,000 mark, recovery teams who had long given up any hope of finding more survivors were stunned to hear the voice of a woman calling out for help.They then managed to pull her ...
DHAKA: A special Bangladeshi court sentenced a senior opposition official to death by hanging on Thursday for crimes including genocide and torture during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the assistant general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, is the third politician to be sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal, a much-criticised domestic court based in Dhaka."He has been sentenced to death by hanging for charges including genocide," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told AFP.The genocide ...
DHAKA: At least eight people have been killed in a fire that swept through a garment-making factory in the Bangladeshi capital, with the owner among the victims, police said Thursday.The cause of the fire was not known but authorities said it broke out during the night on the third floor of an 11-storey building housing two garment factories in the capital's Darussalam district."There were no workers at the Tung Hai sweater factory when the fire ...
BEIJING: Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid began a two-day trip to China Thursday, as the Asian giants seek to repair the damage from a border flare-up that highlighted long-rumbling tensions.The world's two most populous countries have in recent years seen relations improve and trade boom, and both sides had sought to stay low-key over the latest row, which lasted several weeks.Two-way trade totalled $69 billion in 2012, dominated by $54 billion of Chinese exports to ...
SHIMLA: At least 33 people died Wednesday when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road into a fast-flowing river in northern India, police said."So far, 33 bodies have been retrieved from the river and 14 other people are injured and have been rushed to hospital," local police chief R.S. Negi told AFP from the crash site in Hamachal Pradesh state.The accident occurred near the popular summer resort of Kullu, 250 kilometres (155 miles) from Himachal ...
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