DEHRADUN: Seven people including a toddler were killed Sunday in India when a helicopter ferrying Hindu pilgrims from a shrine crashed in the Himalayas, officials said. The fatal accident comes as relatives mourn at least 279 people killed when a passenger plane slammed into a residential area in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on…
ISLAMABAD: Since seeing thousands of comments justifying the recent murder of a teenage TikTok star in Pakistan, Sunaina Bukhari is considering abandoning her 88,000 followers. “In my family, it wasn’t an accepted profession at all, but I’d managed to convince them, and even ended up setting up my own business,“ she said. Then last week,…
SANAA: Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels said Sunday they had launched several missiles at Israel as it came under Iranian fire, following a massive Israeli bombardment campaign on the Islamic republic. The Huthis said in a statement they had “carried out a military operation targeting sensitive targets of the Israeli enemy” in central Israel. The group,…
WASHINGTON: The US central bank is expected to keep interest rates unchanged for a fourth straight policy meeting this week, despite President Donald Trump’s push for rate cuts, as officials contend with uncertainty sparked by the Republican’s tariffs. While the independent Federal Reserve has started lowering rates from recent highs, officials have held the level…
A HELICOPTER carrying six people has crashed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, news agency ANI reported on Sunday. The aircraft was flying from Dehradun to Kedarnath before it went missing in Gaurikund and crashed, ANI reported, citing an official.
LONDON: A rare oil painting of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, which is believed to have been damaged by a Hindu nationalist activist, is to be auctioned in London in July. Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in India’s history, led a non-violent movement against British rule and inspired similar resistance campaigns across the…
LOS ANGELES: For hours, thousands of people in Los Angeles peacefully celebrated their defiance of US President Donald Trump Saturday with music, marching, bubbles and balloons — then police unexpectedly moved in, and chaos and confusion broke out. The demonstration — part of the nationwide “No Kings” day of protests across the country — was…
TUAM: A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland’s “mother and baby” home scandal. Beneath the ground at this peaceful spot in the town of Tuam, 135 miles (220 kilometres) west of Dublin, significant quantities of human remains have…
WASHINGTON: Melissa Hortman – the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and former assembly speaker in Minnesota who was fatally shot along with her husband on Saturday – was remembered by Governor Tim Walz as someone with “grace, compassion, and tirelessness.” The lawmaker and her husband, Mark Hortman, were killed by a suspected gunman posing as a…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Greenland on Sunday carrying a message of “European solidarity and support” for the Danish autonomous territory coveted by US President Donald Trump, located at the crossroads of the Atlantic and the Arctic. Macron will be the first foreign head of state to set foot on the vast…
