May 09 2024
Hollywood star Johnny Depp on Monday lost his libel battle with a British tabloid that labelled him a “wife beater”, after a London High Court judge ruled he had repeatedly assaulted his former partner and put her in fear for […]
Hurricane Eta continues to intensify as it churns in the Caribbean Sea toward Nicaragua, expected to bring devastating conditions with it, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Early Monday morning saw winds from Eta grow up to 75 mph. […]
India recorded 45,231 new coronavirus infections, taking its total cases to 8.23 million, the health ministry said on Monday. The country doubled down on its testing in the month of August, raising the bar to a total of 62.4 million […]
In what one rescue worker called a miracle, extraction teams brought two girls out alive on Monday from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir, three days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. Onlookers […]
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Sunday announced a new social distancing scheme based on five levels instead of three, with plans to improve anti-virus measures amid criticisms that label the current system as too broad-brush. The scheme took […]
In the second last week of north-Indian state Delhi’s anti-dengue campaign, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the national capital has again defeated the mosquito-borne tropical disease. “Owing to the aggressive campaign by the Delhi government this year, no […]
Indian Kashmir was hit Saturday by its biggest general strike since losing its semi-autonomous status last year, with local anger brewing over a new measure allowing outsiders to buy land in the disputed territory. The Himalayan region has been divided […]
Around 10,000 international pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, after a hiatus of seven months, after the Islamic pilgrimage was halted due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the Kingdom and worldwide. According to Deputy Minister of […]
Over a million Slovaks took a coronavirus swab on Saturday as the country launched a huge logistical operation to test most of its population over the weekend to reverse a rise in the pandemic. Authorities say the ambitious plan to […]
Armenia and Azerbaijan once more accused each other of bombing residential areas on Saturday, in defiance of a pact to avoid the deliberate targeting of civilians in and around the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Shelling was reported by both sides […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the country’s first seaplane service in Ahmedabad. The flight connects Sabarmati Riverfront to Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Narmada district in the western state. The Prime Minister followed the inauguration by boarding a […]
