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In an alley in Denver, police gunned down a 17-year-old girl joyriding in a stolen car. In the backwoods of North Carolina, police opened fire on a gun-wielding moonshiner. And in a high-rise apartment in Birmingham, Ala., police shot an elderly man after his son asked them to make sure he was okay. Douglas Harris, 77, answered the door with ... Read More »

DUBAI: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, on bail over a deadly hit-and-run 13 years ago, performed in Dubai on his first overseas public appearance since his conviction earlier this month. The actor joked about his suspended five-year jail sentence. Arriving at the first season of the Arab-Indo Bollywood Awards ceremony Salman Khan held in the Emirati city late on Friday, Khan ... Read More »

TOKYO: A magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings in Tokyo but with no immediate reports of damage, public broadcaster NHK said. There was no danger of tsunami, it added. The earthquake, centered off the Ogasawara islands south of Tokyo, was felt widely in Japan but occurred at a depth of 590 km. ... Read More »

LAHORE/QUETTA: A Pakistani minister admitted Saturday a suicide bomber was behind an explosion that killed two people outside the stadium during a Pakistan-Zimbabwe cricket match, as a spokesman for the hosts said the visitors would continue the tour. Friday’s explosion, which police still insist was an accidental blast, threatened to torpedo cricket-mad Pakistan’s first series on home soil since an ... Read More »

BANGKOK: A regional conference called to address the swelling tide of boat people in Southeast Asia ended with no major breakthroughs, with Myanmar deflecting blame for fueling the crisis and warning that “finger pointing” would not help. But delegates agreed on one thing at least— the need to keep talking.  The US also prepared to begin surveillance flights in Thai ... Read More »

TEHRAN: Iran said Saturday it would be “out of the question” for the UN atomic watchdog to question Iranian scientists and inspect military sites as part of a final nuclear agreement with world powers. “Interview with scientists is completely out of the question and so is inspection of military sites,” senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araghchi told state television.   US ... Read More »

SYDNEY: The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to help Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority amid a worsening migration crisis. Despite thousands of Rohingya fleeing on harrowing boat journeys to Southeast Asia to escape poverty and discriminatory treatment by the country’s Buddhist majority, opposition leader Suu Kyi is yet to comment. ... Read More »

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: A man claiming to be the former head of ex-Soviet Tajikistan’s special forces police division appeared in a video Wednesday saying he has joined the Islamic State militant group in Syria. The man resembling Col. Gulmurod Khalimov, 40, who sparked panic after failing to report for duty in late April, says in the footage that he was driven ... Read More »

DOHA: Qatar pledged $50 million on Thursday to help Indonesia shelter Muslim Rohingya migrants from Myanmar, the official QNA news agency reported. Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have all prevented vessels overloaded with starving migrants from Bangladesh and from Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority from landing on their shores.   Indonesian Muslim protesters hold defaced posters of Myanmar's radical Buddhist monk Ashin ... Read More »

JEDDAH: Saudi security authorities managed to foil an attempt to commit a terrorist crime targeting worshippers in Al-Anoud Mosque, Dammam City, while they were performing Friday prayers, the Interior Ministry announced. The security authorities have launched a criminal investigation and a detailed statement will be issued later, said the ministry’s security spokesman. The aftermath of today's car bomb in Dammam. ... Read More »

KARACHI: Pakistan on Thursday executed three Baluch separatists convicted of hijacking a plane in 1998, which they attempted to fly to India to disrupt Islamabad’s first nuclear tests, officials said. The executions were carried out on the 17th anniversary of the tests, which made Pakistan the world’s seventh nuclear-armed power — a landmark event for the impoverished Muslim country of ... Read More »

HYDERABAD, India: Eating onions, lying in the shade and crowding into rivers, Indians are doing whatever they can to stay cool amid a brutal heat wave that has killed more than 1,400 in the past month. Officials say most of the 1,412 deaths have occurred in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where temperatures have soared to 47 ... Read More »

DHAKA: Veteran Mardan Mamat of Singapore shared the opening round lead with American Casey O’Toole with a five-under-par 66 at the inaugural Bangladesh Open on Wednesday. Mamat, a four-time Asian Tour winner, overcame two weather interruptions to take his place atop the leaderboard with six birdies in the $300,000 Asian Tour event at the Kurmitola Golf Club.   CO-LEADER: Mardan ... Read More »

DHAKA: Bangladesh plans to move thousands of Rohingya who have spent years in refugee camps near the Myanmar border to a southern island, an official said Wednesday, as the region faces a human trafficking crisis. The government has started planning the relocation to Hatiya island in the HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: Migrants sit outside a courtroom as they wait for the police ... Read More »

MUSCAT: Oman plans to deport over 1,000 foreigners found to be working illegally on a multi-billion dollar project to expand Muscat International Airport, in a sign of tensions between its labor policy and its big infrastructure building plans. “The companies for which these illegal workers were working will be fined and the workers will be deported,” Salim bin Said Al-Badi, ... Read More »