New Orleans: A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, killing 10 people as he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police, authorities said. More than 30 people were injured as...
Kyiv: Ukraine Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers that pass through the country, almost three years into Moscow's all-out invasion of its neighbour, after a prewar transit deal expired. Ukraine's energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, confirmed Wednesday morning that Kyiv had stopped the gas...
San Francisco: The parents of Indian-American techie Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment December 14, 2024, have rejected the official suicide ruling, alleging that their son was murdered. Suchir, a former OpenAI employee, had made headlines for his whistleblowing revelations...
Wellington: From Sydney to Vladivostok to Mumbai, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. Auckland became the first major city to celebrate, as thousands thronged downtown or climbed the city's ring of volcanic peaks for a...
Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data. The most recent numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec. 5, up from...
Wellington: Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands of revellers counting down to the new year and cheering at colourful fireworks launched from New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky Tower, and a spectacular downtown light show. Thousands also thronged to downtown...
Washington: Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said on Monday. The department did not provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers...
Washington: After vowing to ‘go to war’ to defend the H-1B visa programme, tech billionaire Elon Musk has reignited debates surrounding the programme used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US by labelling it ‘broken’ and in urgent need of ‘major reform.’ Musk, along...
Washington: A US federal appeals court has upheld a jury's decision ordering President-elect Donald Trump to pay $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming writer E Jean Carroll. The verdict, reached after a nine-day civil trial in New York last year, found Trump guilty of...
New Delhi: India and other Quad member nations Tuesday renewed their firm commitment to work towards a free and open Indo-Pacific that is peaceful, stable and prosperous. The foreign ministers of the member nations of the grouping made the pledge in a joint statement commemorating...
Syria is in the grip of uncertainties since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on 8 December. There are still no...
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South Korea is plagued by a deepening political crisis after two impeachment motions against two top leaders have been passed,...
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A rift has emerged among the supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump over the contentious issue of immigration. The faction...
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Much has been written and will be written about what Manmohan Singh was. Here are a few lines on what...
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