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India today called upon all sides to support democracy and mandate of the ballot and avoid bloodshed in Turkey, which is witnessing violence after an attempted military coup in which at least 60 people have died. External Affairs Ministry said India has been closely following the developments in Turkey and advised its nationals to stay […]
Australia has condemned Friday’s deadly terror attack in the French resort city of Nice that killed 84 people and confirmed that three of its nationals have been?injured in the incident. Described the attack on Bastille Day as a “murderous act of terror”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, “The ANZACS of today were leading the Bastille […]
Three suspected Islamic State group suicide bombers targeted the international terminal of Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, killing at least 36 people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 36 were dead and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said 147 were wounded. Another senior government official told The Associated Press the death […]
Lionel Messi sensationally announced his retirement from international football here Sunday after Argentina crashed to an upset defeat against Chile in the final of the Copa America. The heartbroken Barcelona superstar was distraught after missing a spot-kick as Chile snatched victory in a penalty shoot-out — Messi’s fourth straight defeat in a major final while […]
The camp in favour of Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) was leading by four percentage points over the Remain camp with over 70 per cent of results declared in the referendum today as a BBC forecast said the results were for ‘Brexit’. The “too-close-to-call and knife-edge” prediction of the opinion polls seemed to […]
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 69 people on board has vanished from radar, the airline said on its verified Twitter feed today. A tweet on the airline’s official account said flight MS804 left Paris at 23:09 pm local time (0239 IST), “heading to Cairo (and) has disappeared from radar”. Further tweets in […]
A 70-year-old Buddhist monk was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside a monastery in southeast Bangladesh, a week after a Muslim Sufi preacher was murdered in a similar attack. Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of the monastery located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of Bandarban’s Naikhyongchari Upazila, was found dead in this morning by […]
Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, was today declared the new London mayor after he beat his nearest rival in what is being described as a landslide, marking the return of Labour rule to the UK capital after eight years. The 45-year-old Opposition candidate takes charge as the first Muslim head of […]
Due to wildfires in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta led evacuation of about 80,000 people, devastating the remote town at the hub of the country’s oil-sands industry. Some 76,000 people shifted from Fort McMurray, 270 miles north of Alberta’s capital Edmonton, to shelters hundreds of miles north and south of the town.
A 21-year-old Indian-origin student at Rutgers University was killed and his roommate seriously injured in a shooting incident at their apartment near the school’s campus in the US state of New Jersey. Shani Patel, a junior economics major at the university, was shot and killed on Sunday at an off-campus apartment building in Newark, a […]
