Mongolians started voting for a new president on Monday, a media report said. There are nearly two million voters in the country, which has a population of around three million. The polls mainly involve candidates from three leading parties, who have offered different measures to ease the government’s mounting debt pressure if elected to office, […]
Nine persons have died and more than 30 are missing after a tourist boat carrying 150 people sank in a Colombian reservoir, authorities said. Rescuers are combing the waters, said authorities in Antioquia, where the incident took place, CNN reported. The head of the Antioquia’s Disaster Prevention Department told reporters that at least 100 people […]
Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to improve ties as tensions between the two nations were not conducive to their stability and development as well as regional cooperation Wang made the remarks on Saturday during a meeting with Adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, reports Xinhua news […]
The toll in the twin blasts that hit a market in Pakistan’s Parachinar city has increased to 67, the media reported. According to a senior official, the toll increased after 22 people succumbed to their injuries on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency. At least 140 people are still hospitalised, adding that the toll may further […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here from Portugal on Sunday, on the second leg of his three-nation tour, that will also take him to the Netherlands. “Touchdown! Wait is over, Celebrations begin! PM @narendramodi on US soil,” the Indian Embassy in the US tweeted. “Look forward to welcoming India’s PM Modi to @WhiteHouse on Monday. […]
At least 123 people were killed when an oil tanker exploded after it overturned in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday morning, police said. According to the police, people from nearby areas were collecting fuel from the oil tanker which had skidded off the highway and overturned in Bahawalpur city’s Ahmed Pur Sharqia area, reports The […]
US President Donald Trump denied having recorded conversations with James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Trump fired last month. “I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have any such recordings,” Trump tweeted on […]
At least 21 people died in a traffic pile-up in Brazil’s Espirito Santo state, officials said. The pile-up occurred near Guarapari on Thursday when a van transporting granite strayed into the oncoming lane and crashed into a bus, the Federal Highway Police said, Efe news reported. The bus was plying the route between Sao Paulo, […]
US President Donald Trump denied having recorded conversations with James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Trump fired last month. “I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have any such recordings,” Trump tweeted on […]
A federal US judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of over 100 Iraqi Christians who might face death or persecution if returned to their birth country, media reports said. Attorneys argued that the 114 Iraqis mostly Chaldean Christians, who were picked up during a series of raids in Detroit by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]