A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Greek island of Crete at 8.49 AM (local time) on Thursday, news agency ANI reported.According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck 82 kilometres (51 miles) northeast of Crete’s capital, Heraklion, at a depth of 68 kilometres beneath the seabed.So far, there have […]
NEW DELHI: At least four children were killed and 38 others injured on Wednesday after a suicide car bomber targeted a school bus in the restive Khuzdar district of southwestern Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials said.Several of the injured are in critical condition, and the death toll is expected to rise.The bus was ferrying children to […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A $500 million Trump family hotel project in Belgrade is facing serious legal and political hurdles after a senior Serbian official admitted to forging key documents to advance the controversial development, according to The New York Times.The proposed Trump International Hotel, the family’s first in Europe, […]
An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter Scale struck Pakistan at 1:26 pm (IST) on Monday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.This comes just two days after Pakistan was jolted by two back-to-back earthquakes on Saturday, a 5.7-magnitude quake in the morning, followed by a 4.0-magnitude tremor hours later, Reuters reported. Experts warn that […]
Israel conducted an airstrike near Syria’s presidential palace during the early hours of Friday, following their warning to Syrian authorities regarding movements towards villages populated by a minority sect in southern Syria.The strike occurred after several days of violent encounters between pro-government forces and Druze minority fighters near Damascus, resulting in numerous casualties and injuries. […]
Representative Shri Thanedar (D-Michigan) served a sharp blow to right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, turning his sneering jibe into a “celebration of American dream.”“I did grow up in India. My dad was a clerk. Then I found my American Dream,” Thanedar said, after D’Souza claimed he’d be nothing more than a “municipal clerk or waiter” had […]
Spectators roam inside the Madrid Open tennis tournament venue during a general blackout in Madrid, Monday (Pic credit: AP) Millions of people on Monday were impacted after electricity was cut off across Spain, Portugal, Belgium and part of southern France in a massive blackout. According to reports, phone lines were down, and trains and flights […]
In a deadly turn of events, Houthi rebel-controlled media in Yemen reported that a US airstrike targeted a migrant detention center in the northern stronghold of Saada on Monday, leaving at least 68 people dead and dozens more injured. The attack is the latest in a series of near-daily US military operations against the Iran-backed […]
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon (Pic credit: AP) Israeli fighter jets struck Beirut‘s southern suburbs on Sunday, marking the third attack on the area since a ceasefire took effect in late November.The strike, which came about an hour after a warning was issued, targeted Hezbollah […]
