PARADISE, United States : The number of people killed by a massive blaze in northern California rose to 42 on Monday, making it the deadliest wildfire in the history of the state.
Thousands of firefighters spent a fifth day digging battle lines to contain the “Camp Fire” in the...
Raipur, India : Tens of thousands of armed police were on duty Monday as a restive Indian state wracked by violence went to the polls. Maoist militants have unleashed a string of deadly attacks ahead of the vote in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh, one of India’s poorest states, killing 13 people...
Manila ; A Philippine anti-graft court on Friday sentenced former First Lady Imelda Marcos to at least 42 years in prison after she was found guilty of graft for creating private foundations in Switzerland and having “financial interests” in companies while in office from 1968 to...
Paris : Drug-resistant bacteria killed more than 33,000 people in the European Union in 2015, according to new research published this week warning that superbugs were “threatening modern healthcare.”
In a study published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, an EU-wide team of...
New Delhi [India] : Ahead of his Japan visit for the Annual Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that India’s ties with Japan, both economic and strategic, stand completely transformed in recent years. Prime Minister Modi will be visiting Japan on October 28 and 29 for the...
Jakart : One black box from a crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee said Thursday, which could be critical to establishing why the brand new plane fell out of the sky. “We found one of the black boxes,” Soerjanto...
Pune (Maharashtra) [India] : As many as 302 people have died due to swine flu so far this year in the state, according to the state Health Surveillance officer. Health Surveillance officer of the state Pradip Awte on Wednesday told ANI that 325 people affected with swine flu are admitted in the...
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India] : Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans and a Doodarshan cameraman were killed in a Naxal attack here on Tuesday. The Doodarshan crew and the patrol party were attacked in Aranpur village of the district. Two jawans also got injured in the incident and...
Manama : Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir said on Saturday that the 18 suspects arrested over the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will be prosecuted in the kingdom, state-run Bahrain News Agency reported. Jubeil made the announcement at a regional security summit in Bahrain, a...
Los Angeles : The Consulate General of China in Los Angeles confirmed on Friday there were about 1,500 Chinese tourists trapped in Saipan by Super Typhoon Yutu, which hit the Northern Mariana Islands and caused extensive infrastructure damages.
The consulate general has set up a 24-hour hotline on...
