Opposition Gives Pakistani PM Two Days to Resign Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters descended on the capital of Islamabad Friday, determined to send the sitting prime minister… 11/02/2019 Aimeast
Opposition Gives Pakistani PM 2 Days to Resign Backed by tens of thousands of protesters, Pakistan’s opposition parties Friday demanded the country’s prime minister resign within two days.Demonstrators… 11/02/2019 Aimeast
Pompeo Seeks Faster Progress with N. Korea After Rockets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that negotiations with North Korea were going too slowly after Pyongyang fired… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
Sources: US Opens National Security Probe of TikTok Owner’s Acquisition The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co.'s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly,… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
Schools Close in Indian Capital as Air Pollution Turns Hazardous Authorities in the Indian capital ordered schools to shut down until Tuesday, began handing out pollution masks to school children… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
China Says It Will ‘Improve’ the Way Hong Kong Leaders Are Appointed China will "improve" the way Hong Kong's leader and other officials are appointed and replaced, a Chinese official said Friday.Shen… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
Why Vietnam Can’t Stop Risky Migration to Richer Countries Vietnam’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into whether 39 people found dead in a truck in the United Kingdom… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
China’s Economy Struggles as Consumers Tighten Their Belts With home sales crashing, real estate agent Zhang Yonggang is tightening his belt, part of a plunge in Chinese consumer… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
Britain’s Black Economy Draws Vietnamese Migrants The deaths of 39 migrants in the back of a refrigerated truck near London last week has focused a spotlight… 11/01/2019 Aimeast
Hong Kong Protests Raise Concerns for Gay Community Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, now in the fifth consecutive month of demonstrations, say they are seeking greater rights and… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Sources: US Envoy Returns to Afghanistan, Discusses Prisoner Swap Chief U.S. peace negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad is back in Afghanistan and held fresh meetings with Afghan leaders on the fate… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Violations, Violence and Repression Remain Rampant in Indian-Administered Kashmir: UN The U.N. human rights office has denounced what it calls the ongoing repression in Indian-administered Kashmir and is urging the… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Trump: New Location for US-China Trade Deal Signing to be ‘Announced Soon’ President Donald Trump said Thursday that an alternative location for his signing of a US-China trade deal with President Xi… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
India Asks WhatsApp to Explain Privacy Breach India has asked Facebook-owned WhatsApp to explain the nature of a privacy breach on its messaging platform that has affected… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Focus on Systems, Not Only Victims, Vietnam Labor Group Says The International Labor Organization in Vietnam has called for improved conditions for migrants -- not just those who were among… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Hong Kong Protesters to Challenge New Face Mask Ban in Halloween March Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are planning a unique demonstration Thursday in defiance of the city's recent emergency law banning face… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
HRW: CIA-Trained ‘Death Squads’ Behind Afghan War Crimes Human Rights Watch (HRW) says CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces have "committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability" --… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Southern Philippines Struck by Third Deadly October Earthquake At least five people are dead in the southern Philippines after it was struck by a powerful earthquake Thursday, the… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
North Korea Launches Two Projectiles; 12th Launch This Year North Korea has fired two unknown projectiles toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea reported Thursday, the 12th… 10/31/2019 Aimeast
Taliban Attacks Getting More Effective, SIGAR Says Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of… 10/31/2019 Aimeast