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The body of a victim of a train accident lies covered in cloth on a railway track in Amritsar, India, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. New Delhi, Oct 20 : A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday evening, killing at least 60 people and injuring dozens more, police said. The ...

Photo: A man waits to enter Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. Istanbul, Oct 20 : Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a “fistfight” in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the kingdom claimed early Saturday, admitting that the writer had been slain at its diplomatic post for the first time. Authorities said 18 Saudi suspects were ...

Images of 15 Saudi nationals who are allegedly involved in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Photo: Collected Ankara, Oct 19 : Turkish media have named 15 Saudi nationals who Turkish officials suspect were involved in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist critical of the government who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in the ...

Malaysian police said Friday that a British woman has been detained on the resort island of Langkawi for allegedly stabbing her husband to death. Langkawi police chief Supt. Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim said investigators found a 12 inch-long kitchen knife stained with blood in the couple’s home where John William Jones, 62, was found dead Thursday. He said police were called ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he now believes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and warned of “very severe” consequences should Saudi Arabia be proven responsible. “It certainly looks that way to me. It’s very sad,” Trump told journalists when asked if he believed that Khashoggi, who disappeared more than two weeks ago, is no longer alive.   Asked about the ...

The death toll from severe cyclone Titli in India’s eastern state of Odisha has risen to 57, local government officials said Thursday. The cyclone inflicted an estimated loss of 300 million U.S. dollars, a local government spokesman said.   “The government has mooted the process of relief and restoration and besides this Chief Minister Navin Patnaik has hiked the ex-gratia ...

The death toll in the Kerch college shooting has reached 20 people, deputy head of city administration Dilyaver Melgaziyev told TASS today. “Twenty people died. The last car brought to the morgue the bodies not of three, but four people. They found another body,” he said.   Bodies of all people killed in the Kerch college shooting have been identified, ...

Yangon, Oct 17 : Three detained journalists appeared in a Myanmar court on Wednesday to face charges filed against them by the Yangon city government, which alleges a story they published was false. An increasing number of journalists have been arrested and jailed for their work under Myanmar’s civilian government, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, ...

Hurricane Michael killed at least 30 people in four states, as the storm made its way through the southeastern United States last week, new local estimates showed Tuesday. Twelve bodies were recovered in Bay County, Florida, Sheriff Tommy Ford told local media, bringing the death toll up to 20 in that state.   The powerful Category 4 storm, which originally ...

US President Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He told the AP news agency that Riyadh was being treated as “guilty until proven innocent”.   Mr Trump also said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had denied knowing what happened to Mr Khashoggi.   Unnamed Turkish officials ...