Category: World

Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Christchurch cemetery on Wednesday for the first funerals of those killed in last week’s terror attack targeting two mosques as citizens braced for days of emotional farewells following the massacre. The bodies of the victims were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent […]

Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi has been arrested in London on behalf of the Indian authorities, British police said on Wednesday. India had asked Britain in August to extradite Modi, one of the main suspects charged in the $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB), India’s biggest banking fraud. Police said Modi, […]

The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zimbabwe rose to more than 300 as rescuers raced against the clock to help survivors and the United Nations led the charge to provide aid. “We already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at risk,” Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced […]

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey’s southwest on Wednesday, authorities said. In a written statement, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said the quake hit the Denizli province at 9:34am (local time). Its epicentre was the province’s southern countryside in Acipayam district, at a depth of 11.36 kilometres. According to the European earthquake monitoring service […]

New Zealand’s prime minister declared on Tuesday she would do everything in her power to deny the accused mosque gunman a platform for elevating his white supremacist views after the man dismissed his lawyer and opted to represent himself at his trial in the killings of 50 people. “I agree that it is absolutely something […]

BEIRA: More than a thousand people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique, while scores have been killed and more than 150 are missing in neighbouring Zimbabwe. The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai’s full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighbouring Zimbabwe, unleashing […]

Some 40 people were preventively evacuated from a building near the European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bomb threat was sent to a company linked to the EU. Police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said a “telephone bomb threat” was made on Tuesday morning to a consulting office linked to the EU’s executive commission […]

The Foreign Office confirmed on Tuesday that no Pakistanis were hurt in yesterday’s deadly shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht and two other people arrested in connection with the rampage. Ambassador Shujjat Rathore in The Hague also confirmed that all Pakistanis in Netherlands are safe after the attack. Dutch police also announced […]

The maker of the Leaving Neverland documentary hit out at Michael Jackson fans Monday for the “vile and absurd” attacks on two men who say the singer abused them for years. Dan Reed said a vocal minority of fans were leading a campaign against the two-part HBO film, which has broken streaming records and which the Jackson […]

Holdout extremist militants scurried along the reedy banks of the Euphrates in an increasingly desperate defence on Tuesday of the last scrap of their ‘caliphate’ in eastern Syria. Advancing Kurdish-led forces forced fighters from the militant Islamic State (IS) group out of the main encampment where they had been confined in recent days. The move […]