News Archive - 30 August 2015

>ISLAMABAD U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met Pakistan's prime minister on Sunday to press concerns over attacks launched by militants based in Pakistan, officials said.The visit to Islamabad, part of an Asian tour that included an earlier stop in China, comes amid uncertainty over whether the United...

>"The process of recovering the bodies is finished now. The corpses of 36 workers, many of them burnt or in pieces, were pulled out after an air strike hit the plant this morning," resident Issa Ahmed told Reuters by phone from the site.The alliance intervened in Yemen's war in...

>KUALA LUMPUR A leader of Malaysia's ruling party said on Sunday a million government supporters would stage a rally in October that would trump protests over the past two days demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal.Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi warned organizers...

>BANGKOK Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing widened their search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials found during a raid on a Bangkok apartment block.Authorities said police were monitoring about 1,000 mobile phone numbers and checking photographs used...

>SAN JUAN Puerto Rico will delay until Sept. 8 the completion of its fiscal reform plan, the commonwealth's government said on Saturday, citing time spent on contingency disaster planning by the government in the run-up to Tropical Storm Erika.A working group appointed by Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla...

>BEIJING China's economy is growing at a "reasonable" pace and, despite growing pressure, the government can handle well the risks the country faces, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said.The premier, in remarks published late Saturday after a special cabinet meeting, said China is continuing to steadily manage its economy. Li...