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Kathmandu: At least six people were killed, and ten others injured Saturday when a bus overturned in Nepal's Gandaki province, police said. The Kathmandu-bound bus had 18 people on board, including the driver, when it overturned in the Daunne area of Nawalparasi district, according to...

Cairo: The co-pilot suspected in this week's FlyDubai attack has been identified as an Omani national. Meanwhile, a hospital in Gaza says Israeli strikes have killed five people, including four women. Here is the latest news from the Middle East Saturday. Co-pilot is identified as...

Dhaka: Amid growing concerns over mounting threats to press freedom in Bangladesh, at least 162 journalists faced attacks, threats, harassment and legal harassment in 112 separate incidents over the past three months while carrying out their professional duties, local media reported, citing a monitoring report...

Chicago:  India plans to bring a large multi-sectoral business delegation to the United States, possibly in the first quarter of next year, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said as he sought deeper engagement between Indian businesses and their American counterparts. Goyal disclosed the...

Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday said that the attacker in the Flydubai incident underwent Islamist radicalisation and intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board. “As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer. Yaniv and his heroic companions prevented a...

Islamabad: The federal government and leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan held talks Friday to defuse political tensions ahead of the opposition party's planned long march to Islamabad. The developments come a week after the party announced that...

United Nations: India's Bimal Patel has been sworn in as judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). He took the oath of office  Thursday at the tribunal in Hamburg, starting a nine-year term on the highest judicial body for the...

Washington: US President Donald Trump warned that Iran would be hit “very hard” if Tehran is found to be behind the attack aboard a Flydubai passenger aircraft, while saying that information he was receiving suggested a possible Iranian link was being investigated. Trump made the...

Jerusalem: Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with Yaniv Hayoun and other Israelis whose actions helped avert a potential disaster aboard a flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel. He also recommended them for the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism. The four Israelis included Yaniv Hayoun, Dr...

Mehsana: Three Gujarat residents who went missing in Ethiopia while allegedly attempting to reach the United States through an illegal migration route have reached India and are on their way to Mehsana district, police confirmed Thursday. Rutvik Jansari, Mamta Chavda and Mayuri had left Gujarat...