KABUL, Afghanistan — Yousuf fled with his family from his home in eastern Afghanistan eight years ago to escape the war, but he couldn’t escape tragedy. In the capital, Kabul, five of his children died, not from violence or bombings, but from air pollution, worsened by bitter cold […]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes pounded Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza on Wednesday and militants resumed rocket fire toward Israel after a brief overnight lull, as the death toll rose to 23 Palestinians, including a 7-year-old boy and two other minors, in the heaviest round of […]
HONG KONG — University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from two Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave as college campuses become the latest battleground in the city’s 5-month-long anti-government unrest. Marine police used a boat Wednesday to help […]
NEW DELHI – As New Delhi remained shrouded in toxic smog on Wednesday, India’s top court censured the central government for its inaction and sought remedial action. Cooler temperatures and lighter wind trapped heavy smog over the Indian capital, pushing pollution to “severe” levels in many places with […]
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU – India’s retail inflation breached the central bank’s medium-term target of 4% in October for the first time in 15 months, on the back of higher food prices. Most economists, however, expect the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to look past the inflation […]
Mumbai, Nov 13: A 19-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping an eight-year-old girl inside a public toilet in suburban Walada here, police said on Wednesday. Chand Babu Sheikh lured two eight-year-old girls from Kamala Nagar on the pretext of showing them an ‘Eid E Milad’ procession […]
Mumbai, Nov 13: Benchmark BSE Sensex on Wednesday dived 229 points as concerns over poor macro data and confusion over US-China trade deal persisted. Further, continued unrest in Hong Kong led to fall in regional markets, also impacting sentiment on Indian bourses. A sharp depreciation in the Indian rupee […]
Basirhat (WB), Nov 13: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after conducting an aerial survey of cyclone ‘Bulbul’-hit areas in North 24 Parganas, said on Wednesday that the loss incurred by the state due to the natural calamity might go up to Rs 50,000 crore. Banerjee handed over a […]
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