Yangon / AFP At least eight people have been killed and thousands displaced by clashes in southeast Myanmar, rebels and border forces said on Monday, violence that threatens to undercut the new government’s push for peace. Fighting broke out this month between government troops and an ethnic rebel splinter group known as the DKBA in Karen state, near the border …

  AFP India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi on Monday summoned top security advisers to thrash out a response to a deadly raid on a Kashmir army base blamed on militants from Pakistan, amid calls for tough action against the nuclear-armed nation. Modi has vowed to punish those behind the attack in which gunmen hurling grenades stormed a base, killing 17 …

  AFP The spread of superbugs that are resistant to all known drug treatments could spark a global financial crisis on the level of the 2008 meltdown or worse, a World Bank-led study warned on Monday. Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise, and in the future, many infectious diseases will once again be untreatable, forcing more people into poverty and …