Myanmar's election commission on Thursday rejected allegations by the country's military of vote fraud in last year's election and said there were no errors big enough to impact the credibility of the ... ( read original story ...)
Political, Religious Figures Urge Myanmar Govt, Military Leaders to Talk as Tensions Rise
Prominent political and religious figures in Myanmar have urged government and military leaders to engage in a dialogue in order to calm a sudden escalation in tensions over statements from the ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus jolt in Vietnam casts pall over Communist Party’s coronation congress
Vietnam's worst single-day coronavirus outbreak so far, its first for nearly two months, gatecrashed the Communist Party's carefully choreographed five-yearly congress on Thursday - a major headache ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Japan to Produce 90M Doses of AstraZeneca Shots
More than 90 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be produced in Japan by a Japanese pharmaceutical company through a licensing agreement. ( read original story ...)
Tanaka leaves Yankees, rejoins former team to pitch in Japan
Masahiro Tanaka is returning to pitch for his former team in Japan after seven seasons with the New York Yankees. The Rakuten Eagles said Thursday the 32-year-old free agent ... ( read original story ...)
Pakistan’s supreme court orders release of man jailed over Daniel Pearl’s murder
Pakistan’s supreme court has ordered the release of a UK-born Islamist who had been sentenced to death over the 2002 beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl. In a two-to-one verdict by a three-judge ... ( read original story ...)
Top Pakistan court orders release of man once convicted in Daniel Pearl’s brutal murder
Slain U.S. journalist's family left in "complete shock by the majority decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan" to free the man accused of planning the murder. ( read original story ...)
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Orders Release of Man Convicted in Killing of WSJ Reporter Daniel Pearl
The country’s Supreme Court ordered the release of Omar Sheikh, the man convicted in 2002 of orchestrating the abduction and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, after effectively ... ( read original story ...)
WorldView: Deadly bus crash in Cameroon; Pakistan to release man convicted of killing U.S. journalist
At least 53 people are dead after a bus crash in the west African nation of Cameroon. In Pakistan, a court ordered the release of a man convicted of killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. ( read original story ...)
Daniel Pearl murder: Pakistan supreme court orders release of British-born man
Majority ruling upholds earlier decision to commute sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh ... ( read original story ...)