BBC’s Delhi and Mumbai offices raided; phones, laptops seized
NDTV : Income Tax officials searched the BBC’s Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday and seized phones and laptops, weeks after a massive controversy over...
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Three dead in US campus shooting
AFP : Three people were killed and five others wounded on Monday when a gunman opened fire on a university campus in the United States,...
Inside the struggles of Turkey’s earthquake response
Reuters :Kevser said she could hear her two sons trapped beneath the rubble of their collapsed apartment building in the Turkish city of Antakya but...
Cyclone Gabrielle lashes northern New Zealand, 58,000 homes without power
AP :Around 58,000 homes are without power in New Zealand’s upper North Island on Monday as the approach of Cyclone Gabrielle brings strong winds, heavy...
EU envoy to Syria: ‘absolutely unfair’ to be accused of shirking quake aid
Reuters :The European Union’s envoy to Syria said early on Sunday that it was not fair to accuse the group of failing to provide enough...
Indian forces crack down on funerals of Kashmiri fighters
Dawn :Three weeks after he laid down his tools and took up arms, Kashmiri carpenter Mukhtar Ahmed was killed in a firefight with Indian government...
Russia hits Ukraine power grid and gains ground in east
Reuters :Russian missiles hit power facilities on Friday across Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelensky returned from a tour of Western capitals and Ukrainian officials said...
India poised to become the world’s most populous country
The Economic Times :India is poised to become the world’s most populous country in 2023, surpassing China which has held the position since 1950, Indian...
Moldova PM resigns amid crises, prompting quick successor
AFP :Moldova’s government collapsed Friday after the prime minister resigned as the ex-Soviet country grapples with crises in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...
Death toll in southern Peru mudslides rises to 17
AFP :Peruvian authorities on Friday said the death toll from devastating mudslides in the country’s south has climbed to 17, including three children.The landslides, which...
Australia’s remote Norfolk Island battens down ahead of cyclone
AFP :A tropical cyclone was racing towards Australia’s remote Norfolk Island on Saturday, with forecasters warning its 2,000 residents to prepare for “destructive winds” and...
First aid reaches Syria rebel-held areas since quake: border official
AFP :An aid convoy reached rebel-held northwestern Syria Thursday, the first since a devastating earthquake that has killed thousands, an official at the Bab al-Hawa...