Kyiv: Russia launched nighttime attacks on several cities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said Saturday as they and officials in Moscow blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a separatist-controlled area of the country’s east. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said
Thingvellir: In between North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, Iceland’s Silfra fissure is one of the world’s most famous dive sites, popular with tourists who venture into its icy waters. Visibility underwater can exceed 100 metres (330 feet) and the spectacle of light and darkness is
London: Around 5,000 train drivers across almost a quarter of Britain’s rail network went on strike on Saturday, as part of a campaign for higher pay after the country’s inflation rate hit its highest in 40 years. The 24-hour strike organised by train drivers’ union ASLEF
Uzay Bulut "We saw his body while washing it. There was a scar on his neck as if he had been hanged with a clothesline. Both of his eyes had burst. Blood was coming from his eyes. His nose was completely broken and filled with cotton.
Paris: Iran this week amputated the fingers of a man convicted of theft using a guillotine machine, Amnesty International said, decrying an "unspeakably cruel punishment". Pouya Torabi, in his late thirties, was transferred on an emergency basis to hospital immediately after his fingers were cut off
Madrid: Spain and Brazil reported their first monkeypox-related deaths,, marking what are thought to be the first fatalities linked to the current outbreak outside of Africa. Spain is one of the world’s worst-hit countries, with 4,298 people there infected with the virus, according to the health
New Delhi: China said it hoped "relevant parties" would refrain from interfering with its legitimate maritime activities, after New Delhi voiced concern over a Chinese military ship's planned visit to a port in India's southern neighbour Sri Lanka. India worries that the Chinese-built and leased port
New Delhi: India will ground all its Soviet-era Russian fighter jets, the MiG-21, by 2025, following the death of two officers in a crash, the latest in a series of casualties involving the single-engine jet’s failure, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The Times of India quoted
New Delhi/Seoul: India’s government blocked a popular battle-royale format game from Krafton Inc, a South Korean company backed by China’s Tencent, as it was concerned about its data sharing and mining in China, an Indian government source said. New Delhi used powers it has under India’s
New Delhi: Renowned independent Kashmiri journalist Aakash Hassan, who writes on human rights, digital technologies and South Asian politics for several Indian and foreign publications, was barred by the immigration authorities at Delhi airport from leaving for Sri Lanka. It is pertinent to menion here that