International

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet with 67 people on board crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan after veering from its scheduled route, officials said. Kazakh authorities said 28 people had survived the crash of the Embraer 190 near the city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, reports AFP. The plane was ...

The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed deep concern over the recent handing down of convictions by Pakistani military courts to 25 civilian supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan over their alleged involvement in riots last year. The convictions had previously also been criticized by the European Union and domestic human rights activists. “The United States is ...

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 ...