KARACHI: Gunmen disguised as Pakistani security officials killed at least 14 people on Thursday after forcing them off buses traveling between Karachi and the coastal town of Gwadar, the government said. The attack in southwestern Balochistan comes less than a week after a suicide bomb ripped through an outdoor market in the province, killing at…
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Vladivostok, Russian media reported on Wednesday. His visit comes after he failed to persuade US President Donald Trump to ease sanctions on his regime in Hanoi at the end of February. “The first meeting in eight…
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Vladivostok, Russian media reported on Wednesday. His visit comes after he failed to persuade US President Donald Trump to ease sanctions on his regime in Hanoi at the end of February. “The first meeting in eight…
LIMA, Peru: Former President Alan Garcia mortally wounded himself with a gunshot to his head Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a big graft probe that has put Peru’s most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption.Authorities broke through a door at Garcia’s mansion in a leafy, upscale neighborhood of…
SEOUL: With about two weeks left to the expiry of the US waiver on imports of Iranian crude oil, concerns are growing about whether the six-month exemption will be extended. South Korean officials have been trying to convince Washington to extend the waiver, but say there has been no clear response. “Seoul and Washington had…
SEOUL: With about two weeks left to the expiry of the US waiver on imports of Iranian crude oil, concerns are growing about whether the six-month exemption will be extended. South Korean officials have been trying to convince Washington to extend the waiver, but say there has been no clear response. “Seoul and Washington had…
SEOUL: With about two weeks left to the expiry of the US waiver on imports of Iranian crude oil, concerns are growing about whether the six-month exemption will be extended. South Korean officials have been trying to convince Washington to extend the waiver, but say there has been no clear response. “Seoul and Washington had…
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was praised at home and abroad for her handling of the Christchurch mosques shooting last month, received her highest approval rating since taking office in a widely watched poll on Monday.The 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton political survey showed 51 percent of respondents said Ardern was their preferred…
NEW DELHI: India is likely to see average monsoon rains this year, the state-run weather office said on Monday, which should support agricultural production and economic growth in Asia’s third-biggest economy, where half of the farmland lacks irrigation.Monsoon rainfall is expected to be 96 percent of the long-term average, M. Rajeevan, secretary at the Ministry…
WASHINGTON: The number of confirmed cases of measles in the US this year jumped by nearly 20 percent in the week ended April 11 in the country’s second-worst outbreak in nearly two decades, federal health officials reported. As of April 11, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded 555 cases of the…
TOKYO: The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant.Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday that workers started removing the first of 566 used and unused…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Sunday described an advisory issued by the US warning its citizens not to travel to the Southeast Asian country, as “lacking objectivity.”The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it “strongly protests” the US government’s decision to include Malaysia as one of 35 countries given a “K” indicator on…
DHAKA: Thousands of people took to the streets of Dhaka on Sunday to celebrate the Bengali new year.Vast inflatable animals and colorful banners could be seen in a procession — known as Mongol Shovajatra — to mark the holiday.The Mughal emperor Akbar is said to have introduced the Bengali calendar in 1556 for the purpose…
WASHINGTON: Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on US soil.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the “painful images of 9/11 for a political attack” against the…
SYDNEY: A drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne inflicted “horrific injuries” that killed a security guard and wounded three men, police said on Sunday, but there was no suggestion yet that the attack was terror-related.Australia has some of the world’s toughest gun control laws, adopted after its worst mass murder,…
DHAKA: Khurshid Alam, 55, was watering the orchard in his backyard on Oct. 25, 2014 when he received news of the sudden death of his wife, Sufia Akhter Jusna, in the UAE. Sufia, 46, was a mother of six and her family’s sole breadwinner due to her husband suffering from a medical condition. She had…
MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States.The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the…
AMRITSAR: Britain’s high commissioner to India laid a wreath on Saturday on the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, one of the worst atrocities of colonial rule for which London is still to apologize.The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, as it is known in India, saw British troops fire on thousands of unarmed people in the northern…
AMRITSAR: Britain’s high commissioner to India laid a wreath on Saturday on the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, one of the worst atrocities of colonial rule for which London is still to apologize.The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, as it is known in India, saw British troops fire on thousands of unarmed people in the northern…
YEHUD, Israel: Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed onto the moon on Thursday after a series of technical failures during its final descent, shattering hopes of a historic controlled landing on the lunar surface.The unmanned robotic lander suffered periodic engine and communications failures during the landing sequence, which lasted around 21 minutes, the support team said.Beresheet, whose…
