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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...

Yemen’s Houthi movement fired ballistic missiles at what it called “economic and vital targets” in the southern Saudi province of Jizan on Saturday, and Saudi authorities said a man was killed by debris from the projectiles. The attack appeared to be retaliation promised by Yemen’s dominant political faction in a...

Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 20 people attending a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen late on Sunday, residents and medical sources said. The head of Al Jumhouri hospital in Hajjah told Reuters by telephone that the hospital had received 40 bodies, most of...

LONDON: Kate, the wife of Britain’s Prince William, gave birth to the royal couple's third child on Monday. The Kensington Palace, in a tweet, confirmed that the Duchess of Cambridge had safely delivered a son at 1101 hours. The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth of the couple's third...