Death Toll Continues to Rise in Nepal, Bangladesh & Northern India Floods
DHAKA: Severe flooding has killed at least 61 people, displaced nearly 800,000 and inundated thousands of homes across a third of Bangladesh, government officials said on Tuesday, after two weeks of heavy monsoon rains. Nearly 3 million people are struggling with flooding, the worst in two years, according to the disaster management and relief ministry. […]
Turkey: Belarusian diplomat shot and wounded by neighbor
ANKARA: A Belarusian diplomat was seriously injured late Wednesday after being shot by an unidentified attacker in the Turkish capital, international media reported. According to the reports, the undersecretary at the Belarusian Embassy in Turkey, Alexander Poganshev, was shot while taking a walk with his 13-year-old child near the embassy. Some reports indicated that the […]
Metals worth millions stolen in Brazil at cargo terminal
SAO PAULO: Armed men stole $40 million of gold and other precious metals on Thursday from a Sao Paulo cargo terminal at South America’s busiest airport, taking two hostages, police said. Several of the suspects arrived at the Guarulhos airport in a black pickup truck with livery resembling Brazil’s federal police, according to security footage […]
US to resume federal executions after 16-year break
WASHINGTON: The US federal government will resume its use of capital punishment after a 16-year hiatus and have set execution dates for five convicted murderers, US Attorney General Bill Barr announced Thursday. Acting on President Donald Trump’s call for tougher penalties on violent crimes, Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt a new […]
WhatsApp to launch digital payments service in India
NEW DELHI: Messaging giant WhatsApp plans to launch its first payment service this year in India, its biggest market with 400 million users, the company said Friday. The Facebook-owned firm has tested the service with about one million people over the past year. But a commercial launch has been on hold while it waits for […]
Earthquake of 6.3 M strikes near south coast of Japan’s Honshu
An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near the south coast of Japan’s island of Honshu early on Sunday, the European earthquake monitoring service EMSC reported. An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near the south coast of Japan’s island of Honshu early on Sunday, the European earthquake monitoring service EMSC reported The estimated population of the […]
Massive manhunt in wilderness for teen murder suspects
MONTREAL • Two teen triple-murder suspects on the run in the central Canadian wilderness – perhaps holed up in thick, insect-infested forest inhabited by wolves and bears – were staying one step ahead of a massive police manhunt last Friday. Since last Tuesday, the village of Gillam, near Hudson Bay, has been on the alert […]
Hong Kong: police fire teargas as thousands march in Yuen Long
HONG KONG: Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators hurling rocks in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists gathered to protest an attack by suspected triad gang members at a train station last weekend. Activists held the march in Yuen Long, scene of the attack by club-wielding men, […]
Interpol refuses to issue Red Corner notice against Zakir Naik
LONDON: The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has once again refused India’s request to issue a Red Corner Notice against Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik and instructed all of its offices to delete files and information on him. The Interpol told India it had decided not to issue the notice due to lack of evidence […]
Russia detains nearly 1,400 people in crackdown on Moscow opposition protest
MOSCOW: Russian police rounded up more than 1,4000 people in Moscow on Sunday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power. The detentions came around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election. Authorities […]
