Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes in Northern California on Tuesday yet another front in the seemingly endless summer of wildfires that have ravaged some of the most scenic areas of the state. The two fires straddling Mendocino and Lake counties had burned seven homes by Monday night along with some 107 square miles […]
» Read moreMaulana Fazlullah, the dreaded chief of Pakistani Taliban, has been killed in a United States drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, an Afghan Defence Ministry official confirmed on Friday. Fazlullah, who has been designated as a global terrorist by the US and carried a bounty of $5 million, had been on the run since his loyalists were routed in […]
» Read moreIndian-American Karthik Nemmani, was declared champion of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee, winning on the word “koinonia” and surviving what was arguably the most intense competition in the contest’s 93-year history. In doing so, the 14-year-old on Thursday night emerged the top speller from a record-shattering 515 contestants at the national bee, compared with 291 last year, after organizers […]
» Read moreU.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called off a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site. Referring to a scheduled June 12 meeting with Kim in Singapore, Trump said in a letter to the North Korean leader: ”Sadly, based on […]
» Read moreNetflix has locked a deal with former U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to produce series and movies for the streaming giant. According to Netflix, the former first couple will work on scripted and unscripted series as well as docu-series, documentary films, and features under the multi-year deal. “One of the simple joys of our time in […]
» Read moreAn Indian-origin woman and her grandparents died and her two children were injured after a fast-moving blaze swept through their home in Queens, New York City, a media report said. Harleen Maggo and her paternal grandparents Ragvir Kaur-Kainth, 82, and Pyara Kainth, 87, died in the incident late on Saturday. Ms. Maggo’s two children, an eight-year-old girl and a six-year-old […]
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