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Army teams pushed deeper Friday into Indian tea plantations and villages struck by landslides that killed more than 200 people, working on the assumption that nobody was left alive to rescue. The...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly condemned on Wednesday the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, state news agency WAFA reported. Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader, was the...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - At least 104 people have died and hundreds are feared trapped after three landslides hit Kerala's Wayanad district in four hours amid heavy rain. Multiple agencies, including...

A 12-year-old missing in remote northern Australia may have been "attacked by a crocodile", police said Wednesday as search teams combed a creek for signs of the child. The child disappeared on...

LEIPZIG, Germany: Turkey's Merih Demiral struck in each half and their goalkeeper Mert Gunok pulled off a superb stoppage-time save as they secured a high-octane 2-1 victory over Austria on Tuesday to...

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al Ahmad al Sabah issued an Amiri Order appointing Sheikh Sabah al Khalid al Sabah as crown prince, the state news agency KUNA reported on Sunday. Sheikh Sabah, 71,...

Cricket ventures into uncharted territory on Saturday as the first-ever major tournament to be staged in the United States gets underway in Texas with the opening game of the T20 World Cup. A...

Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah from Ghana has made the Guinness World Record (GWR) as the world’s youngest male artist at the age of 1 year 152 days. Little Ace-Liam who started showing interest in...

Madrid - Spain will recognize Palestine as a state on May 28, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday in the Spanish parliament. "Next Tuesday, May 28, Spain's cabinet will approve the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) mourned Sheikh Hazza bin Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who passed away on Thursday. According to Emirates News Agency (WAM), the Presidential Court issued a statement,...

AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal...

Abu Dhabi: The UAE witnessed its heaviest rainfall in 75 years, surpassing anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949, WAM news agency said. The UAE National Centre of Meteorology...

DUBAI - Several Iranian airports including Tehran's Imam Khomeini International have canceled flights until Monday, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, as tensions flared in the Middle East with...

Baghdad - Iraq reopened its airspace on Sunday hours after suspending all air traffic as Iran had launched a drone and missile attack on Israel, the Iraqi aviation authority announced. Jordan, which...

An attacker who fatally knifed five people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in Sydney's beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. The assailant was shot...

Sydney - Australian airline Qantas said on Saturday it would redirect its long-haul flights between Perth and London to avoid Iran's airspace amid Middle East tensions. A Qantas spokesperson told AFP...

Foreign tourist passengers jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand early on Thursday, and all 108 people onboard survived. The overnight ferry from Surat Thani...

Gold hit another fresh record high Monday as investors grow confident that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year. In Oman's jewelry market, gold was trading at RO28.8 per gram for...

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early on Tuesday after a container ship smashed into a pylon, with the six people missing presumed dead after falling into the frigid water below. ...

The acute food shortage in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has become so severe that “famine is imminent” and the enclave is on the verge of a “major acceleration of deaths and malnutrition,” a...