A military transport plane that Russia said was carrying 74 people, including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war to be swapped, crashed Wednesday in a border region near Ukraine. All aboard were killed, according to the governor.
It wasn’t immed…
Twenty-one soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in the deadliest attack on Israel’s forces since the October 7 Hamas raid that triggered the war, the military said Tuesday, a major setback that could add to mounting calls for a cease-fire.
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An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region on Tuesday with reports of several injuries and collapsed houses, Chinese state media reported.
The epicenter of the quake struck at 2:09 am (1809 GMT) …
A chartered flight from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan has crashed in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, news agency Reuters reported on Sunday. At least six people are presumed to be on board.
According to Russian aviation authorities, it w…
Iran says it has hit a militant group in western Pakistan in a missile attack, its third air strike on another country this week after earlier attacks on targets in Iraq and Syria.
The operation hit two sites in Balochistan linked to the militant…
Celebrated Indian poet and litterateur Munawwar Rana passed away at Lucknow on Sunday night. He was 71.
Rana had been undergoing treatment for throat cancer at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
"He was hospital…
Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power on Saturday, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, as China said it would not give up on achieving "reunificat…
Elections started on Saturday in Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections which China has framed as a choice between war and peace and are happening as Beijing ramps up pressure to get the island to accept its sovereignty.
Taiwan has…
Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay has won the elections for a second time after his party won nearly two-thirds of seats, the election commission said on Wednesday.
The election was dominated by serious economic challenges that have called…
Gabriel Attal has been appointed as the new prime minister of France, becoming the youngest and the first openly gay head of government, AFP reported.
President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named 34-year-old education minister Attal as prime minist…