The former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, or KNB, has been detained on suspicion of high treason as unprecedented unrest rocked the country. The security committee said in a statement on Saturday its former chief Karim Masimov and a number of other officials were detained on Thursday, without naming ...
A building housing a canteen in Chongqing in China’s southwest collapsed on Friday after an explosion suspected to have been caused by a gas leak, killing at least 16. As of midnight (1600 GMT) on Friday, 26 people had been taken from the site, 16 of whom had died, the ...
