Athens: Two firefighting helicopters collided in midair Sunday afternoon while battling a massive wildfire in Greece's western Attica, according to Greek national broadcaster ERT. The helicopters crashed near the coastal area of Psatha shortly after the collision, prompting a large-scale rescue operation. The pilot of one helicopter managed to contact the Fire Service's operations centre and reported...

Moscow: Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least five people across Russia, also hitting industrial sites and a further warehouse belonging to Russia's e-commerce giant Wildberries, local officials said. Wildberries, Russia's largest online marketplace, is sometimes described as the country's answer to Amazon. In under two weeks, Ukraine has struck over a dozen of the retailer's depots, part...

Peshawar: At least seven persons were killed, and over a dozen injured in an explosion during a peace rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan Sunday, sources said. The blast occurred when the Swat Peace Rally was in progress in Kabal Town in Swat district, district officials said. Initial reports indicate that at least seven people...

Brahmapur: A man allegedly cut off his tongue with a knife outside a temple in Odisha's Ganjam district Sunday morning, police said. The incident took place outside a Kali temple at Hansatuli village within Beguniapada police station limits. The victim, identified as Kiran Patra (36) and a father of two children, works as a labourer abroad and...

Moscow: Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin called Sunday a bomb attack on a restaurant in the capital the day before a brutal terrorist act, but did not say who was responsible. The blast Saturday evening at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian establishment in central Moscow, killed three people, including the woman bomber, Russian state media said, citing...

Tel Aviv: Israel has shared serious security concerns with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official told The Associated Press Sunday in some of the first public comments since US President Donald Trump announced the agreement earlier this week. Doron Spielman, spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister's office, told the AP...

New Delhi: India approved just one Chinese FDI proposal worth Rs 1 crore, while clearing 13 applications from Hong Kong worth Rs 610.42 crore in the last financial year, according to official data. These approvals are important as investments from countries sharing a land border with India have been subject to prior government approval since April 2020...

Tehran: Iran's Acting Defence Minister Seyed Majid Ebn Al-Reza said Sunday that Tehran perceives every "enemy" threat as "real and noteworthy," rejecting any characterisation of them as mere psychological warfare. "We will neither be surprised nor remain passive. We use threats as a basis to increase our preparedness, strengthen our deterrence, and develop our power," Al-Reza wrote...

New Delhi: The West Asia conflict and a surge in AI server demand have caused a shortage of printed circuit boards, a key hardware platform, which in turn has triggered a price rise in the electronics industry. This crunch in printed circuit boards (PCB) -- a hardware platform on which components are fixed in electronic products --...

Surabaya (Indonesia):  An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said. The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was travelling from Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya in East Java...