AFP :Eleven Turkish soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed in heavy weather in the country’s restive southeast on Thursday, the defence ministry said.Television images from the crash site showed the ground blanketed...
Reuters :Elections for Hong Kong’s legislature will likely be deferred for a second year to September 2022 as Beijing plans a major overhaul of the city’s electoral system, a severe blow to remaining democratic...
Reuters :Pope Francis landed in Baghdad on Friday for his most risky foreign trip since his election in 2012, saying he felt duty-bound to make the “emblematic” visit because Iraq had suffered so much...
AFP, Washington :A sweeping police reform package that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday, five days before the trial of a white officer charged with murdering...
AP, Seoul :North Korea may be trying to extract plutonium to make more nuclear weapons at its main atomic complex, recent satellite photos indicated, weeks after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to expand his...
AP, Tokyo :U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin plan to visit Japan from March 15 for talks with their Japanese counterparts, marking the first trip to the country by...
AP, London :Buckingham Palace said Wednesday it was launching an investigation after a newspaper reported that a former aide had made a bullying allegation against the Duchess of Sussex.The Times of London reported allegations...
PTI, New Delhi :The Taj Mahal complex in Agra was vacated on Thursday morning following a hoax bomb call, officials said. They said an unidentified person called the 112 emergency response number of the...
At least 38 people were killed after Myanmar’s security forces opened fire on young peaceful protesters in towns and cities across the country on Wednesday in what the United Nations described as the “bloodiest...
A bomb threat at the Taj Mahal at Agra in India’s Uttar Pradesh triggered panic on Thursday. Upon receiving the threat, the tourists were immediately evacuated from the heritage center. According to reports, a...
Reuters :Britain’s Prince Harry and American wife Meghan decided long ago they would not play the traditional royal media “game”, and on Sunday they depart from the norms of engagement again with an in-depth...
AFP :Twenty people died and more than a dozen were injured when a passenger bus fell off a cliff in central Bolivia on Tuesday, police said.The bus plunged some 500ft after leaving the road...
