Asia

Officials call the Pakistan floods that killed over 1,000 a climate nightmare

8:07am August 29, 2022

by Diaa Hadid

More than 1,000 people have died from widespread flooding in Pakistan. Officials are blaming climate change for the country's heaviest rains since the early 1960s.

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Many Sri Lankans have switched to cycling due to fuel shortages

5:09am August 29, 2022

Fuel shortages have forced many Sri Lankans to ditch their cars and cycle instead. Colombo's mayor even opened new bike paths. Doctors and environmentalists call it a silver lining. But will it last?

Tents for flood-affected people are loaded to a helicopter by frontier constabularies, in Swat valley, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022.

International aid reaches Pakistan, where floods have claimed more than 1,000 lives

5:01am August 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

International aid was reaching Pakistan on Monday as evacuations were underway for widespread flooding that have claimed more than 1,000 lives this summer.

Displaced people float belongings salvaged from flood-hit homes on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday.

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Pakistan's floods have killed more than 1,000. It's been called a climate catastrophe

12:49pm August 28, 2022

by The Associated Press

The deaths have been climbing since mid-June. Soldiers and rescue workers are evacuating stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and providing food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the Philippine Sea, June 18, 2016. The U.S. Navy is sailing the USS Chancellorsville and the USS Antietam warships through the Taiwan Strait Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in the first such transit

The U.S. sails warships through the Taiwan Strait for first time since Pelosi's visit

10:56am August 28, 2022

by The Associated Press

The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, the U.S. 7th Fleet said. It comes at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.

Espionage case involves a giant sculpture, a fake art patron and a Chinese spying ring on U.S. soil

7:59am August 28, 2022

by Emily Feng

The U.S. has charged 7 people with spying on behalf of China. One target was in an unlikely venue for Chinese politics: A remote sculpture park in the California desert.

Pakistan pins deadly floods on climate change

5:06pm August 27, 2022

by Diaa Hadid

Pakistan declared a national emergency as it experiences its heaviest rains since the early 1960s. The climate change minister says relentless cycles of monsoon have affected some 30 million people.

A year after the war ended, some Afghans in the U.S. find the transition difficult

8:37am August 27, 2022

by Steve Walsh

Tens of thousands of Afghans are trying to establish new lives in the United States. Many were at-risk and granted special immigration status because of the help they provided the American military.

In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, smoke is seen from the M/V Asia Philippines, an inter-island cargo and passenger vessel, as it caught fire while it was approaching Batangas port, southern Philippines on Friday.

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More than 80 people have been rescued from a Philippine ferry fire

4:55am August 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Philippine coast guard personnel and volunteers have rescued more than 80 passengers and crew of an inter-island ferry that caught fire as it approached a port south of Manila.

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Afghans from minority groups face new threats — this time from ISIS

8:11am August 26, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

In Afghanistan, ISIS has been targeting minority groups in a wave of attacks in recent months. It's undermining the Taliban's promise of greater security.

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