By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Hundreds of military personnel were deployed in the Indian Himalayas on Monday to help find at least 125 people unaccounted for after a part of a glacier broke away, setting off a torrent of water, rock and dust down a mountain valley. Sunday’s violent surge swept away a […]
By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – Police fired a water cannon at protesters in the Myanmar capital on Monday as tens of thousands of people across the country joined a third day of demonstrations against the military’s removal of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi a week ago. Calls to join protests and to back a […]
An Indonesian village has been inundated by blood-red water after flooding hit a local batik factory. The crimson dye was released through the street of Jenggot in central Java on Saturday. The area, south of the city of Pekalongan, is famed for its traditional wax and dye batik textiles. Thousands of social media users shared […]
IMAGE COPYRIGHT EPAimage caption The extreme weather has led to major travel disruption, as here in Haarle in the Netherlands The Netherlands has been hit by its first major snowstorm in a decade, forecasters say, as cold weather pushes through much of northern Europe. Dutch authorities have closed all coronavirus testing centres because of the […]
Dozens of people are missing and feared dead after a glacier crashed into a dam and triggered a huge flood in northern India. The broken dam prompted a deluge of water to pour through a valley in the state of Uttarakhand. Villages have been evacuated, but officials warned as many as 150 people may have […]
Tens of thousands have protested for a second day in Myanmar’s main city, Yangon, thwarting the military’s attempt to stop anti-coup rallies by imposing an internet shutdown. “We don’t want military dictatorship,” the crowds chanted. Many held pictures of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi and wore red, the colour of her party. She has […]
By Adnan Abidi, Jatindra Dash KUNDLI, India (Reuters) – Thousands of farmers across India blocked roads on Saturday with makeshift tents, tractors, trucks and boulders to pressure the government to roll back agricultural reforms that have triggered months-long protests. While the initial protests were started by rice and wheat growers from northern India who camped out […]
By David Kirton WUHAN, China (Reuters) – A year after his death from COVID-19, residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they remain grateful to the “whistleblower” doctor who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak before it received official recognition. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in the city, became one of […]
By Tom Allard, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the $70 billion annual Asia-Pacific drug trade. The October arrest of Hong Kong citizen Lee Chung […]
Japanese beer giant Kirin said it is pulling out of a partnership in Myanmar which it runs with a conglomerate linked to the country’s military. The company has a joint venture with Myanmar Economic Holdings, which is overseen by commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. On Monday, he led a military coup which seized control […]
