Shashank Bengali

U.S. airstrike may have killed 18 civilians, ‘nearly all women and children,’ UN report says

August 22, 2019 at 3:10 a.m.

U.S.-led international forces in Afghanistan are investigating reports that at least 18 civilians were killed in American airstrikes last week, officials said Monday. The airstrikes occurred Feb. 9 and 10...

Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's government, is under growing pressure to end violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Myanmar says it will ‘take action’ against police after video shows beating of Rohingya Muslim villagers

August 22, 2019 at 2:33 a.m.

Myanmar's government said Monday it would take action against police officers who were shown in a video beating villagers in western Rakhine state, where tens of thousands of minority Muslims...

This file picture taken May 22, 2014, shows former warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum campaigning to be vice president, an office he won.

Afghan vice president accused of ordering sexual abuse of a political rival he beat up in public

August 22, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

A politician here said Tuesday that he was tortured and sexually abused while being held hostage by Afghanistan's vice president, the latest development in a sordid episode that has raised...

Parag Manere, deputy police commissioner in Thane, India, helped bust the fake call centers.

Inside the Indian IRS scam that cheated U.S. taxpayers out of millions

August 22, 2019 at 2:02 a.m.

Nearly an hour into the phone call, the woman began to get suspicious. The man on the line said he was with the Internal Revenue Service and that she owed...

A building bearing anti-US graffiti in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Nov. 9, 2016. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said there was "no possibility" of its nuclear deal with world powers being overturned by President-elect Donald Trump, despite his fervent threat to rip it up.

Donald Trump’s victory sparks optimism in an unlikely place: Iran

August 22, 2019 at 1:58 a.m.

Donald Trump had sharp words for Iran during his presidential campaign, but Iranian leaders see reasons for hope in a Trump presidency. For hard-liners, Trump's threats to revisit the nuclear...

Thailand begins a year of mourning after the death of its beloved king

August 22, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

Thailand awoke Friday to grief and uncertainty as it began a one-year official mourning period after the death of the country's beloved monarch of 70 years. The highly revered king,...

Mohammad Tayyeb, 15, sells pomegranates outside a camp for Afghans displaced by the war in Kabul.

Born the year the U.S. invaded their country, these Afghan boys have grown up while the war grinds on

August 22, 2019 at 1:24 a.m.

The young fruit-seller, buffing pale red pomegranates to a shine at a roadside stall, cannot remember a time before the war. Mohammad Tayyeb was born the year the U.S. military...

Sundar Singh Jatav, 23, sold his kidney to cover his family's debts. He found out too late that it was a scam.

He was duped into selling his kidney, then exposed an illegal organ racket in India

August 22, 2019 at 1:08 a.m.

Seven years after leaving his village in northern India to find work in the bursting metropolis of Mumbai, Sundar Singh Jatav was struggling in a menial job at a video...

Indian activists shout slogans during a rally in Kolkata, supporting the nationwide strike called by 10 major trade unions over wages and economic reforms. Millions of public-sector workers went on strike across India protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plans for greater privatization and a proposed minimum wage increasethey say is inadequate.

Why millions of Indian workers staged one of the biggest strikes in history

August 22, 2019 at 1:07 a.m.

Earlier this month, tens of millions of Indian workers staged a one-day general strike that unions billed as the biggest work stoppage in human history. By the unions' count, 180...

Susan Mokhtiari, 39, in a Tehran park with her terrier Rubeena.

Dogs, Deepak Chopra, Instagram weddings and other signs of change among Iran’s middle class

August 22, 2019 at 12:59 a.m.

The groom wore a navy blue tuxedo, the bride a custom-made gown with a fish-scale pattern inspired by pictures she found on Instagram. Waiters passed around French tarts as guests...

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