International News Updates

ArrayJakarta: All 113 people on board a Hercules C-130 military cargo aircraft were feared killed when the military plane crashed into a residential area in Medan city on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, media reported. A total of 101 passengers and 12 military crew members — comprising three pilots, one navigator and eight technicians — […]

Athens: Greece’s government proposed a two-year debt deal with the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in a last-minute bid to avert the countdown to default and a possible Grexit, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ office said on Tuesday. According to government sources, at the same time Tsipras was ready to travel to Brussels even later on […]

Vienna: An Austrian couple who got divorced but did not want to part with their house have reached a bizarre compromise by splitting the house into two with a concrete wall separating the two sections, media reported on Tuesday. The married couple in their mid-40s from Burgenland state could not agree on who should get […]

Islamabad: A week-long spell of heatwave in Karachi has come to an end, with the provincial authorities putting the figure of those affected by heatstroke at 100,000 in the Pakistani port city only and the toll at over 1,330 in Sindh province. At least 26 more died in the city and two other districts on […]

Islamabad: At least 24 militants were killed on Sunday in airstrikes by the Pakistan armed forces conducted in the country’s Khyber Agency and North Waziristan tribal regions, media reports said. Fourteen militants were killed in an air assault in Tirah Valley, Geo News reported citing sources. Ten other militants were killed in airstrikes in North […]

Washington: Louisiana Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal on Wednesday made his much- anticipated entry into the 2016 White House race via Twitter making him the first Indian-American and 13th Republican candidate to do so. “I’m running for President of the United States of America. Join me,” he tweeted with a link to his campaign site shortly […]

Islamabad: Pakistan’s worst heatwave in decades has claimed over 1,200 lives in Karachi as authorities have ordered closure of all educational institutions and government offices while the army has also been called in to deal with the situation. The heatwave, sweeping across southern Sindh province, has been going on since the start of Ramadan last […]

Washington: If a large interplanetary rock veers onto a collision course with the Earth, how would we defend ourselves? Well, scientists are not really sure, but one solution could be using nuclear weapons to destroy them. In a bid to beef up defence against errant heavenly bodies, NASA has forged collaboration with the National Nuclear […]

Kabul: A string of explosions took place close to the Afghan parliament complex and a fierce gunbattle battle broke out on Monday, Xinhua reported. The blasts, according to local media, occurred next to the fortified entry gate of the parliament, Xinhua said. An official said over six blasts rocked the area.

At least nine people were killed in a shooting at a historic African-American church in US' South Carolina state, media reported on Thursday

Kathmandu: An assessment of the impact of the devastating April 25 earthquake and major aftershocks thereafter shows that Nepal’s recovery needs an amount equivalent to a third of the Himalayan nation’s economy, the World Bank said today. The damage to the economy will require sustained financial support and effective recovery programmes to create a more […]

At least 55 have been killed in several landslides that hit Taplejung district in northeastern Nepal on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, media reported

Singapore: A 32-year-old Indian-origin doctor in Singapore has been fined Singapore dollars 2,000 for administrating a drug to a patient in wrong way at the Singapore General Hospital in July 2012. The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) said, Dr Garuna Murthee Kavitha injected the chemotherapy drug into the patient’s spinal canal, rather than a vein. This […]

Israel recently carried out at least 20 test explosions in its southern desert to measure the damage that would be inflicted by a so-called "dirty bomb" attack, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported today

Airstrikes of the Saudi-led coalition forces killed 44 people and injured more than 100 others here on Sunday, media reported