LONDON: Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed the Channel from mainland Europe to Britain in small boats in 2023, an annual drop of more than a third, according to government figures released Tuesday. The last arrival of the year was on Dec. 16, when 55 people were detected
UTTAR PRADESH: The owner of an oil mill and his two associates allegedly pushed an 18-year-old Dalit woman into a cauldron with hot oil after she resisted sexual harassment in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, reported NDTV. The police said that they had arrested the three accused following
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrapped up the year with fresh threats of a nuclear attack on Seoul and orders for a military arsenal build-up to prepare for a war that can "break out any time" on the peninsula, according to state media. Kim
GAZA CITY: Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza, residents and medics said, as battles raged through the rubble of towns and refugee camps in a war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would take “many more months” to end. Netanyahu’s comments signal no let-up
DHAKA: Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on Monday of violating Bangladesh's labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated. Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank but has earned the enmity of
SYDNEY: Jubilant crowds began bidding farewell on Sunday to the hottest year on record, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Much of the world's population -- now more than eight billion -- is hoping
LONDON: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over have expressed deep grief and sorrow over the sad demise of prominent Kashmiri leader Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl and paid rich tribute to him for his valuable contribution for the Kashmir
BEIJING: China on Saturday sought “resolute” efforts against an “attempt to roll back" globalisation and called for an orderly multipolar world. “China calls for an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation,” according to a statement released at the end
WASHINGTON: For the second time this month the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel as Israel continues to prosecute its war against Hamas in Gaza under increasing international criticism. The State Department has said that Secretary of State Antony
NEW YORK: The word “dinosaur” was coined before the first dinosaur fossils were discovered, which proves that the prehistoric reptiles never existed. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Humans have been finding dinosaur fossils for thousands of years, although experts widely credit an English surgeon and his wife for