A powerful 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the southern region of South Korea yesterday evening, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, following an earlier quake of 4.9-magnitude.
The refugee crisis in Europe was already pushing the European Union toward disintegration when, on June 23, it helped drive the British to vote to Brexit the EU.
President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday pleaded for more time to bring about reconciliation and ensure accountability seven years after Sri Lanka’s ethnic war that claimed over 100,000 lives.
Top Kashmiri separatist leaders yesterday refused to talk to national opposition leaders who were part of an all-party delegation that arrived here on a mission to restore peace in the restive state that is battling nearly two months of the deadliest unrest in years.
Italian seventh seed Roberta Vinci was first through to the US Open quarter-finals, taming Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko 7-6(5), 6-2 yesterday.
A day after late king Birendra Shah’s statue was removed and attempts were made to reinstall it in Nepalgunj city, the police yesterday sounded a high alert across the country to avoid clashes between supporters and opponents of the king.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti yesterday squarely blamed Pakistan and separatists for fuelling the ongoing trouble in the Kashmir Valley that has been seething with public anger and violent anti-government protests for the past 50 days.
A temporary traffic diversion will be in place at the Civil Defence Roundabout from tomorrow until Sunday morning.
‘I wanted to show Japan’s soft power to the world with the help of Japanese characters. I wasn’t sure how the audience would react. But I received so many cheers’
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More than 100 people fell ill in Bangladesh after inhaling gas that leaked from a fertiliser factory in the port town of Chittagong, officials said yesterday.
Women in Pakistan-administered Kashmir offered their bangles to Ban Ki-moon yesterday, an insult in patriarchal South Asia aimed at the UN head’s perceived inaction over violence on the Indian side of the disputed region.
