International

US immigration authorities removed over 270,000 people last financial year, figures showed Thursday, weeks before Donald Trump takes office threatening to deport millions of migrants, reports AFP. The tally of removals is the final annual report under President Joe Biden, and is higher than at any time in the last decade — including during Trump’s first term as president. The ...

Sri Lanka’s navy had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port. A navy spokesman on Friday said that the group, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee and they had been provided food and water. “Medical checks have to ...

At least 52 people were killed and 68 others were injured in two separate bus accidents on a highway through central Afghanistan, according to a provincial official on Thursday. One bus collided with a fuel tanker near Shahbaz village in central Ghazni while the other hit a truck in the eastern district of Andar. The accidents happened in Ghazni province ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Wednesday on Syria’s triumphant HTS rebels to follow through on promises of inclusion, saying it can learn a lesson from the isolation of Afghanistan’s Taliban. The Islamist movement rooted in Al-Qaeda and supported by Turkey has promised to protect minorities since its lightning offensive toppled strongman Bashar al-Assad this month following years of ...

A powerful earthquake that struck Vanuatu has killed 14 people, the Pacific nation’s government said in a disaster update obtained by AFP on Wednesday. The confirmed deaths included four in the capital Port Vila’s hospital, six in a landslide, and four in a collapsed building where the toll was expected to rise further, it said. More than 200 people have ...

The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed early Tuesday by an explosive device planted close to a residential apartment block in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said. Kirillov’s assistant also died in the blast. Kirillov was sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court Monday for the use of banned chemical weapons during ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Saturday in a second vote by the opposition-led parliament over his short-lived attempt last week to impose martial law, a move that had shocked the nation and split his party. Under the constitution Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was appointed by Yoon, becomes acting president, while Yoon remains in office but ...

At least six people, including a boy, were killed in a fire at a private hospital in Dindigul of Tamil Nadu in India on Thursday night. The incident took place at around 8PM at City Hospital on Trichy Road, reports NDTV. Sources said that an electrical short circuit at the medical facility was suspected to be the cause of the ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray announced on Wednesday that he intends to step down at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January. His decision comes just over a week after President-elect Donald Trump declared his intention to nominate Kash Patel, a loyal ally, as the next FBI director. Speaking at a town hall meeting with FBI employees, Wray cited ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Turkey on Friday to discuss the developments in Syria after the toppling of strongman Bashar al-Assad, a Turkish official source said Wednesday. “He will be in Turkey on Friday,” the source said of the visit which will come just five days after Assad’s unexpected ouster, pledging to share more details “as they ...