Myanmar : Fears that embankments could burst under fresh rains mounted in flooded southeastern Myanmar, where some 150,000 people have been forced from their homes and a dozen people killed. A vast area of farmland across four provinces lies under muddy water with rescue teams trying to reach...
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Beijing : Google is crafting a search engine that would meet China’s draconian censorship rules, a company employee told AFP on Thursday, in a move decried by human rights activists. Google withdrew its search engine from China eight years ago due to censorship and hacking but it is now...
Durango, Mexico : An Aeromexico flight crashed on takeoff during a heavy hail storm in northern Mexico, engulfing the plane in flames and injuring 97 people, officials said Tuesday. The Embraer 190 aircraft, which was operating between Durango and Mexico City and crashed around 3:00 pm local time...
New Delhi : The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) rescued 39 girls, who were trafficked from Nepal, from a hotel in Paharganj area here late last night. As per DCW Chief Swati Maliwal, the girls were trafficked on the pretext of being offered jobs.
“They were kept in the hotel on the pretext...
Panmunjom/Seoul : July 31 (Yonhap) — The two Koreas held general-grade military talks Tuesday at the border truce village of Panmunjom to discuss measures to enforce the military part of their April summit agreement.
The meeting, the first one since June 14, took place at the Peace House, a...
Malaysia : A long-awaited official report into the disappearance of Flight MH370 gave no new clues about why the plane vanished, relatives of those on board the aircraft said Monday, expressing anger and disappointment.
Family members had been hoping that the official investigation team’s...
Jakarta : Ten people were killed and 40 others injured as an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted West Nusa Tenggara province of central Indonesia earlier Sunday, officials said. The earthquake struck at 05:47 a.m. local time and the epicenter, with a depth of 10 km under-land, was...
Maharastar, Mumbai : A bus carrying university workers plunged off a mountain road into a valley in western India on Saturday killing 33 people, police said. Only one passenger is believed to have survived the accident in Raigad district of Maharashtra state. The bus was taking staff of Dapoli...
Cairo : An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced to death 75 Islamists, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and referred what was the largest single case of capital punishment convictions to the country’s top religious authority.
Egyptian law requires the grand mufti to be consulted on death...
Brussels : Catalonia’s deposed president Carles Puigdemont vowed Saturday to “defend the just cause of the Catalan people” as he returned to Belgium. Four months after he was detained in Germany at Madrid’s request, Puigdemont was able to travel to Belgium after a Spanish...
