BSS :Ukrainian officials in the eastern Kharkiv region said Friday that 447 bodies had been exhumed from a mass burial...
BSS/AFP :A Russian state TV channel aired videos on social media of two Americans who went missing last week while fighting alongside the Ukrainian army, stating they had been captured by Russian forces.United States President Joe Biden had said earlier Friday he did not know the whereabouts of Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh, both US military veterans whose relatives lost contact with the pair.The missing Americans-including a third identified as a former US Marines captain-are believed to be part of...
AFP :Vehicles laden with food, facemasks and bedding have been sent to help more than 75,000 people who have fled a volcano on the tourist island of Bali, as the Indonesian president flew in to visit crowded aid centres.Mount Agung, 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the resort hub of Kuta, has been rumbling since August and threatening to erupt for the first time since 1963 — a potential blow to the country’s lucrative tourism industry.Increasingly frequent tremors show that the...
Al Jazeera :The chief executive officer of IDFC First Bank Ltd. gifted $530,000 worth of the shares he owns to his driver, trainer, and helpers at home and office in an unusual gesture of philanthropy in India.V. Vaidyanathan gave 900,000 shares or 3.7% of his holding in the private sector lender. The recipients will use the funds to buy homes, according to an exchange filing. The value of the holding is based on Monday’s closing price.Filings show that Vaidyanathan, 54,...
AP, Warsaw :Britain’s prime minister and Poland’s leaders said Thursday that there is goodwill but no compromise yet between the...
Pakistan plans to relax visa policy in bid to revive tourismReuters, Islamabad Pakistan is planning to ease visa restrictions for visitors from 55 countries, including most European nations, in a bid to revive tourism that was devastated by Islamist violence in the fallout from the 9/11 attacks in the United States.“We are reviewing our visa policies. We are trying to bring 55 countries into a visa-free region, which includes most of the European countries,” Pakistan’s information minister, Fawad Chaudhry, told...
AP, Tokyo :Japan’s leader may have made the right call after all, if not for his country then for himself.Media...
AFP, Aleppo (Syria) :Opposition-controlled parts of Syria’s battered northern city Aleppo came under total siege on Sunday, after government forces...
indianexpress.com :Police in Patna on Tuesday arrested a man who had allegedly burgled the home of BJP MP Giriraj Singh...
BBC Online :The chief minister of the western Indian state of Maharashtra has warned a full lockdown could be imposed...
AP :North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday he’ll push to further upgrade relations with China, his main ally,...
AFP, Doha :US and Taliban negotiators are “at the threshold of an agreement” to end 18 years of conflict between...