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Nearly 100 schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region sent students home early after receiving a bomb threat via email. Police officials are on the site conducting thorough search operations, but have not found anything suspicious yet. “We are taking all appropriate measures at the schools which have received bomb threats. I request parents not to panic, as nothing ...

The Islamic State group has claimed a gun attack on a minority Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan that killed six people on Monday. Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said Tuesday morning that “an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque” in Herat province’s Guzara district at around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) the previous night, AFP reports. ...

At least 25 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday. Local official Olga Bobadilla told RPP radio the incident late Sunday happened on a potholed dirt road in the Andean region of Cajamarca, “and the bus fell into an abyss” ...

Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, resigned on Monday rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change. Yousaf, whose Scottish National Party has been weakened by a campaign finance scandal and divisions over transgender rights, stepped down after failing to strike a deal with ...

At least 45 people lost their lives when a dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley, police said on Monday, as torrential rains and floods battered the country. The disaster raises the total death toll over the March-May wet season in Kenya to more than 120 as heavier than usual rainfall pounds East Africa, compounded by ...

At least 14 people died and 31 others were injured in a road accident in Mexico on Sunday, the authorities announced. The accident took place in the state of Mexico, on the outskirts of the capital, when a bus overturned on the roadway, the local safety secretariat said, reports AFP. “Preliminary figures put the death toll at 14, with a ...

Some senior US officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find “credible or reliable” Israel’s assurances that it is using US-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo reviewed by Reuters. Other officials upheld support for Israel’s representation. Under a National Security Memorandum (NSM) issued by President Joe ...

India held the second phase of the world’s biggest election on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals hurling accusations of religious discrimination and threats to democracy amid flagging voter turnout. Almost one billion people are eligible to vote in the seven-phase general election that began on April 19 and concludes on June 1, with votes set to ...

India began voting on Friday in the second phase of the world’s biggest election, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals raise the pitch of the campaign by focusing on hot-button issues such as religious discrimination, affirmative action and taxes. Almost one billion people are eligible to vote in the seven-phase general elections that began on April 19 and ...

Commenting on Bangladesh’s economic growth, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday noted how ‘East Pakistan’, “once considered” a burden on the country, made tremendous strides in industrial growth, report Pakistan media. During an interactive session with the business leaders of Pakistan, Sharif, who took over the country’s reins for the second time, said, “I was quite young when… we ...