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HAVANA - A Boeing 737 plane crashed on Friday shortly after taking off from Havana’s main airport, carrying 104 passengers plus crew on a domestic flight, Cuban state-run media reported. The number of casualties was not immediately known, but Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, visiting the site of the crash, told...

NEW YORK: Police rushed to a high school in Santa Fe, Texas on Friday after an assailant with a gun wounded people in the latest shooting to rock a country still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in February. The school district in Santa Fe, about 30...

Thirty-eight Palestinian protesters have been killed by Israeli fire during demonstrations ahead of the US embassy inauguration in Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry said Monday. Israelis kill 38 Gaza protesters ahead of US embassy opening in Jerusalem More than 1,600 protesters have been injured in Gaza so far on what...

NEW DELHI: A new wave of violent sand and thunderstorms hit northern India on Sunday killing more than 40 people and leaving widespread disruption, authorities said. NEW As many as 71 people were killed across the country on Sunday as lightning and thunderstorms hit five states, throwing life out of...

SURABAYA: A wave of blasts including a suicide bombing struck outside churches in Indonesia on Sunday, killing at least 11 and wounding 40 others, police said, the latest assault on a religious minority in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country. Indonesia has been on high alert over attacks by militants, including...

BAGHDAD/FALLUJA: Iraqis voted in the first election on Saturday since defeating Islamic State, but few people expect its new leaders to stabilize a country beset by conflicts, economic hardship and corruption since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Depending on the outcome, the poll could bolster Iran’s role in...

Pakistan to restrict US Diplomats movement in Pakistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a notification yesterday introducing new travel regime for US Diplomats in Pakistan and taken back several facilities back from US Embassy/ Consulates after Trump Govt Imposes travel restrictions on Pak Diplomats in United States of America. Islamabad...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has found it highly disrespectful that he was served desserts in shoes during a meal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week. A Japanese diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Monday that Abe and his wife, Akie Abe, found it absolutely disrespectful when they saw...

UTTAR PRADESH: Tensions surrounding the missing portrait of Quaid-e-Azam have escalated with students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) protesting outside a police station over the missing portrait. Yesterday, the portrait had gone missing just two days after the university received threats by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Satish Gautam. The...

Lightning strikes and powerful dust storms across India have killed at least 116 people and injured more than 250 as meteorologists warned Thursday of more wild weather on the horizon. Dust clouds plunged swathes of north India into darkness as winds of more than 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles...

Explosion in Stamford Hill: A street bonfire to celebrate a Jewish holiday erupted “like a bomb” leaving 10 people injured, shocked witnesses said. Seven of the injured were taken to hospital after the blast sent a fireball into the crowd at the Lag BaOmer event in Stamford Hill last night. Witnesses...

Eight journalists were among 29 people killed in a suicide attack in Kabul Monday, including a famed photographer who had written of the dangers of reporting in the Afghan capital. The journalists died when a bomber disguised as a TV cameraman detonated a second bomb at the site of an...