Indonesian police stormed a prison on the resort island of Bali on Wednesday to regain control after inmates burned offices and seized weapons in a riot during which two prisoners were shot and wounded, officials said. Indonesian police said none of about 60 foreign prisoners at Kerobokan jail were among the casualties. The prison holds [...]
Afghan officials are holding talks with the Taliban in Pakistan, the head of a provincial peace council in the insurgency’s heartland Kandahar said on Tuesday, in a possible signal that Islamabad is boosting its support for Afghan peace efforts. Kandahar peace council head Ata Mohammad Ahmadi told Reuters the officials have been meeting for “some [...]
HONG KONG – China Telecom, the smallest of the country’s three carriers, said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in China, the world’s largest mobile phone market. China Telecom said in a statement it would take applications for the iPhone 4S online from March 2 and aimed to [...]
The Foreign Correspondents Club in China has issued a warning to members after three employees of European media companies were attacked last week. The reporters were covering land rights protests in the village of Panhe, in the eastern Zhejiang province. In one incident, a French reporter had his car rammed and a group of men [...]
Umar Patek, an alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombing, denied meeting al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani town they were both in. In a video of his interrogation obtained by the AP news agency, Mr Patek said his presence in Abbottabad at the same time was “a coincidence”. He is facing six [...]
Three Italian soldiers have been killed as the armoured car they were travelling in overturned in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, officials have said. The vehicle was racing to rescue another, Italy’s defence ministry said. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed his deepest condolences to the soldiers’ families over the deaths. Italy has deployed 3,800 soldiers [...]
At least three people have been killed after dozens of gunmen attacked a jail in the southern Philippines in a bid to free a prisoner, police say. At least 50 gunmen stormed a jail in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato province late on Sunday night. Police say the attackers were from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front [...]
Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Saturday demanded the government fulfil its promise to set an early election date to ease the political impasse gripping the troubled islands. “The people of the country want an early election. They want to know the date and how it will be organised,” Nasheed told thousands of party supporters [...]
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