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 […]
PIL at Calcutta HC against corruption in license renewal of B.Ed colleges
The Calcutta High Court, on Saturday, received a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging massive irregularities and corruption in the process of license renewal of different Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) and Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) colleges in West Bengal. The PIL gains significance against the backdrop of the recent findings of Enforcement Directorate (ED) about […]
Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake kills 162
Rescuers on Tuesday searched for survivors buried under rubble after an earthquake on Indonesia’s main island of Java killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in collapsed buildings. The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake on Monday was near the town of Cianjur in Indonesia’s most-populous province West Java, where most of […]
World’s longest-standing president seeks to extend 43-year rule
DAKAR: Equatorial Guinea votes on Sunday in a general election in which President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world’s longest-standing president, is expected to extend his 43-year rule at the helm of the tiny oil-producing West African nation. Over 400,000 people registered to vote in the country of around 1.5 million. Voters will also cast ballots […]
Squalls dump unusual amount of snow on New York state
BUFFALO: Parts of western New York state woke up on Friday to nearly two feet of “lake effect” snow, about half of the total accumulation that forecasters say squalls blowing in from Lake Erie could dump on Buffalo and other cities this weekend. The squalls could persist through Sunday, creating sporadic bursts of intense snowfall […]
Republicans win US House majority, setting stage for divided government
Republicans were projected to win a majority in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for two years of divided government as President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party held control of the Senate. The victory gives Republicans the power to rein in Biden’s agenda, as well as to launch potentially politically damaging probes […]
Bid to condemn Russian invasion divides G20
NUSA DUA: Disagreement emerged at a Group of 20 (G20) summit on Tuesday as the United States and its allies backed a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Russia’s foreign minister dismissed as unwarranted politicisation.The summit on the Indonesian island of Bali is the first G20 leaders’ meeting since Russia sent its troops into […]