NDTV News: Bogot, Colombia: Five politicians and a pilot died Wednesday in a small plane crash in central Colombia, authorities said. The five were all members of the right-wing Centro Democratico of former president Alvaro Uribe. They were on a plane that came down in the municipal area of San Luis de Gaceno in the […]
BBC News: Travis King, the American soldier who fled to North Korea, had been jailed for assault in South Korea prior to crossing the border. Court documents showed he had been embroiled in fights and hit a police car in Seoul. The 23-year-old serviceman had been recently released and was being sent back to the […]
BBC News: More than 2,000 residents are being evacuated from four villages in Russian-occupied Crimea after a fire that triggered hours of explosions at a nearby ammunition depot. Russian-installed officials also shut a stretch of the motorway that crosses the southern half of the peninsula. They did not explain the cause of the fire at […]
BBC News: Fifteen people have died after an electricity transformer exploded on the banks of the Alaknanda river in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. Authorities say a police official and five home guards are among those killed in the accident which took place in Chamoli district. The state’s chief minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami, has […]
BBC News: Thai reformist leader Pita Limjaroenrat has been suspended from parliament, further weakening his already slim chances of becoming prime minister. Thailand’s Constitutional Court issued the order after agreeing to hear a case against the Move Forward party leader. It will decide whether he should be disqualified from parliament for owning shares in a […]
NDTV News: New Delhi: Over 20,000 vehicles in Delhi face over 100 challans each, but their owners have not bothered to pay the fines yet. According to Delhi traffic police, there are 20,684 such vehicles in the national capital against which 100 or more challans have been issued. Also, there are over 1.65 lakh vehicles […]
NDTV News: New Delhi: Gujarat was hit by heavy rainfall on Tuesday, causing flooding in several areas. Torrential rain caused severe waterlogging in Rajkot, Surat and Gir Somnath districts after the state received 300 mm of rainfall in the last few hours, forcing the evacuation of 70 people. Visuals on social media paint a grim […]
NDTV News: Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping for the past some time has been issuing warnings regarding the collapse of the Communist Party of China (CCP) amidst 415 million across the world renouncing their affiliation with CCP, regiments, teams, and other associated organisations since July 1 this year, Greek City Times reported. People’s reaction across […]
BBC News: North Korea is reported to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea without permission. The man was on an organised tour of the UN-run zone dividing the two countries. The crisis comes during a particularly tense time with the North, one of the world’s […]
Reuters: SEOUL, July 18 – For the first time since the 1980s a U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) is in South Korea, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as the allies launched talks to coordinate responses in the event of a nuclear war with North Korea. White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell announced […]
Reuters: GANDHINAGAR, India, July 18 – Two days of talks between economic and finance policymakers from the Group of 20 nations will wrap up on Tuesday without a joint statement due to differences between major powers over the war in Ukraine, according to Indian officials hosting the meeting. During its presidency of the G20, India […]
BBC News: Air quality in the north and eastern US is rapidly declining as hundreds of Canadian wildfires burn out of control. Twenty US states were under air alerts on Monday, according to AirNow, a government website that tracks harmful airborne pollutants. Major Canadian cities are also affected. Meanwhile, Canada has deployed federal troops to […]
