BEIJING: China today said an Indian drone had recently “intruded” into its airspace and crashed in the Sikkim sector, prompting it to lodge a diplomatic protest to India over the violation of China’s territorial sovereignty. China’s Defence Ministry said that the Indian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed into the Chinese side of the border. The […]
NEW DELHI: India’s position on Palestine was “consistent and independent” and not determined by a third country, India said on Thursday within hours of US President Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, dealing a huge blow to the peace efforts in West Asia. The decision would add to the turmoil in the […]
LONDON: British intelligence have reportedly foiled a plot by Islamic extremists to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May, a media report said. The disrupted plot against May included an explosive device that terrorists planned to detonate in front of May’s residence on 10 Downing Street, a Sky News report said. “It is, in essence, an extreme […]
WASHINGTON: The US supreme court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s revised ban on travel that prevents residents of eight countries, including six mainly Muslim nations, from travelling to America even as lower courts continue to grapple with the legality of the measure. The ban will prevent most citizens from Iran, Yemen, Chad, Somalia, Libya, […]
KARANGASEM: A rumbling volcano on the resort island of Bali could erupt at any moment, authorities warned Monday as they raised alert levels to maximum, accelerated a mass evacuation and closed the main airport, leaving tourists stranded. Massive columns of thick grey smoke that have been belching from Mount Agung since last week hae now […]
CAIRO: At least 235 people were killed and 109 injured when militants detonated explosives and sprayed gunfire at a crowded Sufi mosque near Egypt’s Sinai coast. Militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled. Officials called it the deadliest […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump today promised a tax overhaul by Christmas, even as a nonpartisan tax analysis group said the Senate package would leave half of taxpayers facing higher levies by 2027. Speaking before a Cabinet meeting, Trump said, “We’re going to give the American people a huge tax cut for Christmas — hopefully that […]
TEHRAN: A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border, killing more than 328 people and injuring 2500 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said. The Baghdad government did not immediately give word on damage or casualties in that country. The 7.3-magnitude quake was centered 31 kilometres outside the eastern Iraqi city of […]
GERMANY: A nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders he says he committed out of “boredom” may have killed more than 100 patients over several years at two hospitals in north western Germany, prosecutors have said. Investigators have completed toxicological examinations on patients who died during Niels Hoegel’s time as a […]