24 Mar 2019 | 9:37 AMLONDON:Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May's premiership.
24 Mar 2019 | 9:31 PMBAMAKO: Mali’s government on Sunday announced the sacking of senior military officers and the dissolution of a militia, a day after the massacre of more than 130 Muslims, including women and children.
24 Mar 2019 | 8:30 PMBAGHUZ (SYRIA): Islamic State group jihadists emerged from tunnels to surrender to US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a Kurdish spokesman said, a day after their “caliphate” was declared defeated.
24 Mar 2019 | 12:30 PMBEIJING: “Highly choreographed” tours to Xinjiang organised by the Chinese government are misleading and propagate false narratives about the troubled region, a US official said, after China announced plans to invite European envoys to visit.
24 Mar 2019 | 10:15 AMWASHINGTON: House Democrats have warned of a subpoena if Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings that delved into the murky depths of the 2016 election looking for links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, were not turned over to Congress and publicly released.
24 Mar 2019 | 1:22 PMBANGKOK: Thais filled schoolyards, temples and government offices to vote on Sunday in the first election since a 2014 coup, with a high turnout expected among a public who received a cryptic last-minute warning from the Thai king to support “good” leaders to prevent “chaos”.
24 Mar 2019 | 3:52 PMLAHORE: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif's condition had deteriorated in jail due to a kidney disease, a day after his family met him and expressed concern over his health, Pakistan media reported on Sunday.
24 Mar 2019 | 9:40 AMNEW YORK: A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a vicious attack on a homeless woman that was caught on video.
24 Mar 2019 | 9:39 AMKATHMANDU: With the melting of glaciers and snow due to high temperatures, Mount Everest expedition operators are finding more and more bodies of climbers on and around the world's highest peak.
24 Mar 2019 | 10:12 AMNEW YORK: A fix to the anti-stall system suspected in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet that killed 189 people in Indonesia is ready, industry sources said Saturday, as the company tries to avoid a lengthy grounding of its planes.
24 Mar 2019 | 9:43 AMCHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand will hold a national remembrance service on March 29 for the victims of the Christchurch mosque massacre and their families, the prime minister’s office announced on Sunday.
24 Mar 2019 | 9:50 AMA magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi of Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.
Globe Trot24 Mar 2019 | 9:39 AMLondon: Veteran singer-actor Barbra Streisand has said that even though she believes the two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland", she has sympathy for the pop icon.
24 Mar 2019 | 9:38 AMBEIJING:A tour bus with 56 persons on board caught fire in China's central Hunan province, killing 26 of them and injuring 28 others, officials said Saturday.
24 Mar 2019 | 7:28 AMSYRIA:US-backed forces said they had captured Islamic State’s last shred of territory in eastern Syria at Baghouz on Saturday, ending its territorial rule over a self-proclaimed caliphate after years of fighting.
24 Mar 2019 | 7:28 AMISLAMABAD:Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has welcomed his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s greetings on the eve of its National Day, saying time has come to begin a “comprehensive dialogue” between the two countries to address and resolve all issues, including the “central issue” of Kashmir.
24 Mar 2019 | 7:16 AMKARACHI: Two minor Hindu sisters were allegedly kidnapped and forcibly married after being converted to Islam in Pakistan’s Sindh province, triggering protests by the minority community.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:16 PMMOGADISHU: Five people were killed, including a deputy minister, on Saturday after Al-Shabaab militants stormed government buildings in Somalia’s capital, a witness and a senator told AFP.
23 Mar 2019 | 3:25 PMISLAMABAD: It would be a “mistake” for India to view Pakistan with the eye of pre-Partition and its desire for peace should not be misconstrued as a sign of weakness, President Arif Alvi said on Saturday as Islamabad displayed its military might on the National Day.
23 Mar 2019 | 1:17 PMBEIJING: The death toll climbed to 64 in one of the worst industrial accidents of China in recent times which knocked down buildings, tossed children into air and caused a tremor equivalent to a magnitude-3.0 earthquake, officials said on Saturday.
23 Mar 2019 | 10:46 PMBAGHOUZ: US-backed forces said they had captured Islamic State’s last shred of territory in eastern Syria at Baghouz on Saturday, ending the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate after years of fighting.
23 Mar 2019 | 12:19 PMWASHINGTON: The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) exposed 2.3 million disaster survivors to possible identity theft and fraud by improperly sharing sensitive personal information with an outside company.
23 Mar 2019 | 12:16 PMDEER PARK: Hundreds of neighborhood residents of a petrochemical plant that burned for three days and briefly emitted cancer-causing benzene into the air brought their coughs, headaches and other symptoms to a mobile clinic on Friday set up by local health officials.
23 Mar 2019 | 12:15 PMMIAMI: A teenager who survived the Parkland school shooting in Florida has killed herself while struggling with survivors’ guilt, local media reported on Friday.
23 Mar 2019 | 12:11 PMWASHINGTON: When members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 US election have arrived for work each day, they have placed their mobile phones in a locker outside of their office suite before entering.
23 Mar 2019 | 11:40 AMSYDNEY: A vast and powerful cyclone made landfall Saturday along a remote stretch of the northern Australian coast, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains amid safety fears for a small number of residents who’ve stayed in the area.
23 Mar 2019 | 11:35 AMCHRISTCHURCH: Smelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshippers last week reopened their doors on Saturday, with many survivors among the first to walk in and pray for those who died.
23 Mar 2019 | 11:29 AMWASHINGTON: The Inter-American Development Bank on Friday called off next week’s meeting of its 48 member countries in China after Beijing refused to allow a representative of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to attend, two sources with knowledge of the decision said.
23 Mar 2019 | 11:25 AMCHICAGO: The three US airlines that own Boeing Co’s 737 MAX are meeting the US manufacturer this weekend to review a software upgrade for the jet that has suffered two fatal crashes in five months, officials from the airlines told Reuters.
23 Mar 2019 | 11:22 AMPARIS: France’s “yellow vests” are expected to stage further anti-government protests Saturday despite the authorities vowing a “zero tolerance” approach after major riots in Paris last week.
23 Mar 2019 | 11:14 AMWASHINGTON: Special counsel Robert Mueller has submitted the much-awaited probe report on alleged collusion between Russia and US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, ending an investigation that has cast a shadow over the Trump presidency for nearly two years.
23 Mar 2019 | 10:20 AMPALM BEACH: President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that he had reversed his administration’s decision to slap new sanctions on North Korea, with his press secretary explaining that he “likes” leader Kim Jong Un and didn’t think they’re necessary.
23 Mar 2019 | 9:31 AMBEIJING: A tour bus caught fire in central China’s Hunan Province on Friday killing 26 people, local authorities said. The 28 injured in the incident were rushed to three local hospitals. Among them the condition of five was said to be critical, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted local officials as saying.
globe trot23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMSingapore: An Indian national on Friday was sentenced to five years jail and 12 strokes of the cane for swinging a plank during a riot involving about 60 people outside a Gurdwara in Singapore.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMTEHRAN:Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed shock on Friday at US President Donald Trump’s acceptance of Israeli sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMISLAMABAD:Cash-strapped Pakistan will receive over US$ 2 billion loan from its “all-weather” ally China by Monday to provide a boost to its ailing economy, the Finance Ministry has announced.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMSEOUL:North Korea pulled its staff out of an inter-Korean liaison office on Friday, Seoul said, weeks after leader Kim Jong Un’s summit with US President Donald Trump ended without agreement.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMYANCHENG:An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 64 persons and injured more than 600, the state media said on Friday, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angered the public.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:39 AMKATHMANDU: India has extended Nepalese Rs 35. 5 million as financial assistance for the construction of an educational campus in Nepal.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMCHRISTCHURCH:Women across New Zealand wore makeshift hijabs as a statement of peace and solidarity on Friday, a week after a white supremacist killed 50 Muslims at two mosques in the southern city of Christchurch.
23 Mar 2019 | 7:38 AMBRUSSELS:British Prime Minister Theresa May returned on Friday to her mammoth struggle of persuading a deeply divided parliament to back her Brexit deal after an EU summit granted her more time but little to help change minds in London.
22 Mar 2019 | 10:43 PMWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has indicated his readiness to meet Pakistan’s new leadership, amidst the ongoing peace talks between the US and the Taliban facilitated by Islamabad to end the brutal war in Afghanistan, America’s longest.
22 Mar 2019 | 9:53 PMMAJDAL SHAMS (GOLAN HEIGHTS): Druze Arabs and Israeli settlers on opposite sides of the dispute over US President Donald Trump's support for Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights agree on one thing—it won't change matters on the ground.
22 Mar 2019 | 11:22 PMISLAMABAD: Pakistan is on the verge of hitting a kind of jackpot in the form of discovering a huge reserve of oil and gas in the Arabian Sea, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said, hoping that the discovery will solve the economic problems of the cash-strapped country.