Thousands without power after quake rattles California
SAN FRANCISCO: A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of northern California on Tuesday injured two people, damaged a bridge and several roads and left thousands of homes and businesses without power. The earthquake struck at 2:34am local time and was about 10 miles (16.1 km) deep, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. […]
31 sailors go missing as Thai navy ship sinks
PRACHUAP KHAN: Thai military frigates and helicopters kept up the search late on Monday for 31 sailors missing after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others already hauled from the choppy waters. The HTMS Sukhothai capsized late on Sunday as it was patrolling the Gulf of Thailand, about 37 kilometres off the Southeast Asian […]
Japan embarks on defence overhaul to counter China’s ‘strategic challenge’
TOKYO: Japan approved a major defence policy overhaul on Friday, including a significant spending hike, as it warned China poses the “greatest strategic challenge ever” to its security. In its largest defence shake-up in decades, Japan vowed to increase security spending to two percent of GDP by 2027, reshape its military command, and acquire new […]
Russia fires scores of missiles in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine
Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to bring in emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said. Two people were killed when an apartment block was hit in central Kryvyi Rih […]
Himachal Pradesh Assembly to start winter session on 22 Dec
The 3-day long winter session of the 14th Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly will be held at the Tapovan in Dharamshala on 22 December where the newly elected MLAs would take oath of office and secrecy. Himachal Pradesh Governor, Rajender Vishwanath Arlekar, in a notification issued here on Friday stated that the winter session will be […]
Two opposition leaders arrested in Bangladesh
DHAKA: Two top leaders of Bangladesh’s main opposition party were arrested by police on early Friday, a day before a planned rally to call for the prime minister’s resignation. Bangladesh Nationalist Party general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas, a former minister and member of the party’s top decision-making body, were taken from […]
At least 7 killed in blast in north Afghanistan
A roadside bomb killed at least seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, police said. “Today at around 7am a blast took place in […] Balkh on a bus which belonged to Hairatan oil employees,” said Mohammad Asif Wazeri, police spokesman for northern province of Balkh, adding that at least […]
Chinese cities relax testing rules as zero-Covid policy eases
Businesses reopened and testing requirements were relaxed in Beijing and other Chinese cities on Monday as the country tentatively eases out of a strict zero-Covid policy that sparked nationwide protests. Local authorities across China have begun a slow rollback of the restrictions that have governed daily life for years, encouraged by the central government’s orders for […]
Iranian killed ‘celebrating’ World Cup loss to US
PARIS: An Iranian man was shot dead by the security forces after celebrating when the United States eliminated his country’s national team from the World Cup, rights groups said on Wednesday. Iran was knocked out of the World Cup by its arch enemy the United States in Qatar on Tuesday night, drawing a mixed response […]
China’s Covid-19 cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests
China posted another record high Covid-19 infections on Monday, after an extraordinary weekend of protests across the country over restrictive coronavirus curbs, in scenes unprecedented since President Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago. In Shanghai, demonstrators and police clashed on Sunday, with police taking away a busload of protesters, with the BBC saying that […]