SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir : At least 18 people were wounded Thursday in a blast that went off inside a busy bus station in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. The blast took place at the main bus station in Jammu city, the winter capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. “A...
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WASHINGTON : U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would be “very disappointed” if reports on Pyongyang’s alledged efforts of rebuilding its rocket sites prove to be true. U.S. media reported on Tuesday that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)...
SHENZHEN, China : Tech giant Huawei on Thursday opened a legal front in its counter-offensive against US warnings that it could aid Chinese intelligence services, filing suit to overturn a US law that bars federal agencies from buying its products. Huawei said the case was filed in a US District...
JAKARTA : The search and rescue operation carried out after a gold mine collapse in central Indonesia ended Thursday, with the death toll standing at 27, according to Indonesian disaster agency authorities.
“So far, a total of 27 miners have been dead. The search for the victims is decided to...
WASHINGTON : A U.S. Republican Senator on Wednesday said she was raped while serving in the Air Force, underscoring a prevalent culture of sexual assaults in the U.S. military. I am also a military sexual assault survivor,” Senator Martha McSally said during a Senate armed services...
DOHA : Qatar has sold bonds worth $12 billion (nine billion euros), the finance ministry said Thursday, attracting strong demand despite an economic and diplomatic boycott by its former Gulf allies. “The state of Qatar has achieved a successful return to the international financial markets...
WASHINGTON : The number of migrant families crossing the southwest border is again breaking records, and the crush is overwhelming border agents and straining facilities, officials said. More than 76,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, more than double the number from the same...
WASHINGTON : U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said late Tuesday that the United States would step up sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) if Pyongyang was unwilling to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
In an interview with FOX Business Network...
NEW YORK : Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, the centrist billionaire Democrat who positioned himself as a potential challenger to Donald Trump, said Tuesday he would not run for president in 2020. “I believe I would defeat Donald Trump in a general election. But I am clear-eyed about...
SEOUL : Former President Lee Myung-bak was set to be released on bail Wednesday after almost one year of detention on corruption charges. Lee, president from 2008-2013, was sentenced by a lower court in October to 15 years in prison on conviction of bribery and embezzlement. He appealed the...
