TIANJIN, CHINA: The death toll from giant blasts in a northern Chinese port city has risen to 85, officials said Saturday, as firefighters battled to finally extinguish the days-long blaze at the devastated industrial site. The explosions in Tianjin days earlier — starkly depicted in images of a giant fireball and a vast radius of destruction — have sparked concerns […]
» Read moreMAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: A blast at a market in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state killed at least 47 people and injured another 52, a military source and a civilian joint task force member said on Tuesday. The explosion, in a region where hundreds of people have been killed in attacks by suspected members of militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the last […]
» Read moreColombo: The Maldives has arrested seven foreigners who left the country illegally by trawler and were headed for a US military base on Diego Garcia, a minister said on Tuesday. The foreigners were intercepted in the locally hired boat on Monday off the Maldives’ southernmost atoll of Addu heading to Diego Garcia several hundred kilometres away, said Mohamed Shareef, a […]
» Read moreColombo: The Maldives has arrested seven foreigners who left the country illegally by trawler and were headed for a US military base on Diego Garcia, a minister said on Tuesday. The foreigners were intercepted in the locally hired boat on Monday off the Maldives’ southernmost atoll of Addu heading to Diego Garcia several hundred kilometres away, said Mohamed Shareef, a […]
» Read moreSydney: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no Pacific-wide tsunami warning issued for the tremor-prone region. The shallow quake was centred some 186 kilometres southwest of Dadali and 214 kilometres from the capital Honiara. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which also measured the quake at 6.9, said […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: Indian Bhangra singer Sukhbir Singh was on Sunday held up at the airport here after he was reported to be carrying USD 27,000, in excess of permissible limits, Pakistani media reported. A senior Customs official told PTI that Sukhbir reached the Allama Iqbal International Airport here at 11.30 am to catch a Dubai-bound flight. “However, before check-in the […]
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