Category: Asia

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Chile moves to ease strict abortion laws

July 19, 2017 Asia 208

Chile was poised to lift its total ban on abortion, after the Chamber of Deputies weighed a measure to decriminalise the procedure in certain cases – the last step before it would go to President…

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France and India pledge to combat climate change

June 3, 2017 Asia 106

France and India have shown a united front to tackle climate change when French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Paris on Saturday. Modi’s arrival in Paris comes after US President Donald…

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Rare ride promotes women rights in Pakistan

May 11, 2017 Asia 111

A Pakistani sportswoman, Guliafshan Tariq, is traveling on her motorbike across the country’s northwestern mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhaw province to promote women’s empowerment and rights in a male-dominated Pakistani society and to spread a message of…

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Massive landslide kills 24 in Kyrgystan’s Osh

April 29, 2017 Asia 106

Heavy rain triggered landslides in Kyrgystan’s Osh region, burying part of a village and killing at least 24 people, including nine children. The landslide swept over the village of Ayu at 6:40am local time (00:40GMT) on…

An Indian woman pilgrim on her way to the Vaishno Devi shrine drinks water as she rests under the shade of a tree outside a railway station in Jammu, India, Saturday, June 7, 2014. Intense heat wave condition continues to plague northern India, with several areas across the region recording temperatures close to 46 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo)
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37 die as heat wave hits India

April 20, 2017 Asia 177

Intense heat wave has gripped India with mercury soaring to 45 degrees in some parts of the country, meteorological department officials said Thursday. In the southern state of Telangana, at least 37 people have died…