Gunmen kill 9 people in Iran near border with Pakistan
Tehran, 27 Jan: Unknown gunmen on Saturday shot to death nine people in the southeastern part of Iran that borders Pakistan, media reports said.
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Sri Lanka in crisis: President flees and ire turns to PM
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, 13 Jul (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president fled the country without stepping down Wednesday, plunging a country already reeling from economic...
Turkey, Greece trade accusations over 92 naked migrants
ANKARA, Turkey , Oct 17 (AP) — Turkey and Greece on Monday exchanged more mutual recrimination over 92 migrants who were found stripped naked...
California’s largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West
Sacramento, 27 Jul: California’s largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as...
Russia launches 45 drones in mass barrage of Ukraine as Kyiv continues war cabinet...
KYIV, Ukraine, 11 Feb: Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine Sunday in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage, officials said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued...
Russia-Ukraine crisis: 352 civilians killed, over 1,600 others injured in conflict so far
Kyiv, Feb 28 (AFP): Ukraine's interior ministry said 352 civilians have been killed during Russia's invasion, including 14 children. It said an additional 1,684...
High-level Indian delegation discusses energy cooperation with Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe
Colombo, 26 Mar: A high-level Indian delegation called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Sunday and briefed him on the developments in...
China criticises Grammy Award for Dalai Lama
BEIJING, 2 Feb: China on Monday deplored the Grammy Award given to the Dalai Lama, saying it "firmly opposes" the Tibetan spiritual leader using...
Biden urges Modi not to step up Indian use of Russian oil
WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (AP) — President Joe Biden asked India’s Narendra Modi on Monday not to accelerate the buying of Russian oil as the...
Dabur Nepal to inject USD 80 million to expand production plant
Kathmandu, Feb 9 (PTI) Dabur Nepal, the local entity of Indian FMCG major, will inject Rs 9.68 billion (USD 80 million) into its production...
Hezbollah fires rockets at north Israel after an airstrike kills 5 of the group’s...
BEIRUT, 23 Nov (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel on Thursday, a day...
“One Person Dying Of Hunger Every Four Seconds”: NGOs Flag Global Crisis
Geneva, Sep 20 (AP): One person is estimated to be dying of hunger every four seconds, over 200 NGOs warned Tuesday, urging decisive international...
Ending Nigeria’s fuel subsidy pushes a shift to solar. Without a climate plan, progress...
ABUJA, Nigeria , 20 Jun (AP): — As soon as Bridget Mosanya went to get a book from her bag to study, it started...
Special envoys of China, Russia and Pak hold talks with top Taliban officials, Karzai...
Beijing, Sep 22 (PTI) Special envoys of China, Russia and Pakistan have met the top officials of the Taliban's interim government as well as...
India to take up accessibility to energy, food grains ‘very strongly’ at G20: S...
Nicosia, 30 Dec: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today underlined that during its G20 presidency, India intends to take up the issue of affordability...
Mayor: More than 10,000 civilians dead in Ukraine port city
Kyiv, Apr 12 (AP) Six weeks of brutal Russian siege have left more than 10,000 civilians dead in the southern port city of Mariupol...
The death toll from a truck bomb at a checkpoint in Somalia rises...
MOGADISHU, Somalia, 24 Sep: The death toll from a bombing attack at a government checkpoint in central Somalia has reached 21, authorities said Sunday.
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Cyprus president says a buffer zone splitting the island won’t become another migrant route
NICOSIA, Cyprus, 4 Jun (AP) — The president of Cyprus said Tuesday that he won’t “open another route” for irregular migration by letting through...
Study: Non-infectious diseases cause early death in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, 19 Jan: Pakistan has considerable control over infectious diseases but now struggles against cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer as causes of early deaths,...
India’s engagement with Indo-Pacific region goes back several centuries: Prez Kovind
Ashgabat, Apr 3 (PTI) India's engagement with the Indo-Pacific goes back several centuries and the country stands for an open, balanced, rules-based and stable...