islamabad — Pakistan on Friday witnessed the launch of its first lunar satellite aboard China’s historic mission to retrieve samples from the little explored far side of the moon in a technologically collaborative mission that signals deepening ties between the countries. China’s largest rocket, a Long March-5, blasted off ...
HONG KONG — China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country’s ambitious space program.The Chang’e-6 probe – China’s most complex robotic lunar mission to ...
China is exporting its model of digital authoritarianism abroad with the help of its far-reaching tech industry and massive infrastructure projects, offering a blueprint of “best practices” to neighbours including Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam, a human rights watchdog has warned. In 2015, two years after kicking off its massive ...
VARANASI — The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is India’s spiritual capital. And here, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political stronghold, ...
NEW DELHI — Six years ago, a Muslim boy returned red-faced from a well-known school in the northern Indian city of Agra."My classmates called me a Pakistani terrorist," the nine-year-old told his mother.Reema Ahmad, an author and counselor, remembers the day vividly."Here was a feisty, little boy with his ...
EDINBURGH — Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has resigned barely a year into the role after the collapse of his coalition government, a humbling and chaotic departure that throws Scotland’s ruling pro-independence party into chaos.Yousaf’s coalition government fell apart unexpectedly last week when he tore up a coalition agreement ...
NEW DELHI — Indian voters are battling sweltering conditions to take part in the world’s biggest election as a severe heat wave hits parts of the country and authorities forecast a hotter-than-normal summer for the South Asian nation.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said a heat wave will affect parts ...
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has asked Interpol to issue an arrest notice for the Iranian interior minister Ahmad Vahidi.The request comes less than two weeks after a court in Argentina held Iran responsible for the 1994 attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people ...
NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eyeing a historic third consecutive term in general elections being held in April and May.A nationwide poll by India Today magazine last August showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader’s popularity remained intact after a decade in power: more than ...
ISLAMABAD — Unseasonal rainfall has lashed Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past few days, killing more than 100 people across the neighboring countries, authorities said.In Afghanistan, heavy rain and floods in 23 provinces killed 66 people and wounded 36 others, according to preliminary reports from Mullah Janan Sayeq, a ...
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