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Typhoon Bavi Strengthens, Targets China's Fujian and Zhejiang Coast as Evacuations Begin

New Delhi, July 11 -- BEIJING - Typhoon Bavi regained severe typhoon strength at midnight Friday and was tracking northwest toward China's southeastern coast, with landfall forecast between the cities... Read More


Indonesia's Top Corruption Prosecutor Resigns After Police Seize 74kg of Gold From His Home

New Delhi, July 11 -- JAKARTA - The gold bars were found at a house in Bogor. Seventy-four kilograms, stacked alongside approximately twenty million dollars in multiple currencies - Indonesian rupiah,... Read More


15 Indian Tourists Dead After Speedboat Capsizes Off Vietnam's Phu Quoc Island

New Delhi, July 11 -- PHU QUOC, Vietnam - The speedboat had left the tourist island of Hon May Rut around noon, carrying 32 Indian visitors and four crew members back toward An Thoi port, a short run ... Read More


Philippine Fishermen Still Blocked From Scarborough Shoal Ten Years After Hague Ruling

New Delhi, July 11 -- MANILA - On the morning of July 12, 2016, fishermen from Masinloc, Zambales awoke expecting the world to change. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague had issued its ru... Read More


Indonesia Signs $600 Million BrahMos Missile Deal With India in Modi's Jakarta Visit

New Delhi, July 11 -- JAKARTA - When Indonesia signed an agreement to acquire India's BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles in Jakarta on Monday, the ceremony was brief and the language formal. The strat... Read More


Forty-Six Kidnapped Schoolchildren and Teachers Freed in Nigeria After 56 Days

New Delhi, July 11 -- ABUJA - Fifty-six days after gunmen seized 46 students and teachers from three schools in Nigeria's Oyo state, President Bola Tinubu announced on Friday that all of them had come... Read More


Trump Fires All Election Assistance Commission Members Four Months Before Midterms

New Delhi, July 11 -- WASHINGTON - The email arrived without warning. Benjamin Hovland, the only remaining chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, learned Wednesday that his job was gone, no... Read More


Baruipur: 11-Year-Old Raped and Murdered, Mob Then Kills Innocent Man in West Bengal

New Delhi, July 11 -- KOLKATA - She had gone to buy a birthday present. One day later, the body of an 11-year-old girl was pulled from a pond in Baruipur, a town south of Kolkata in West Bengal, and p... Read More


India and New Zealand Forge Strategic Partnership as Modi Ends 40-Year PM Absence

New Delhi, July 11 -- AUCKLAND - When Shane Jones, a minister in New Zealand's coalition government, called the prospect of Indian migration a "butter chicken tsunami," he was not speaking only about ... Read More


Flamingo Air Crash Kills 10 on Bahamas Independence Day, Airline Grounded

New Delhi, July 11 -- NASSAU - The flight out of Lynden Pindling International Airport was a short one - no more than thirty minutes across the water to San Andros Airport on the largest island in the... Read More