Sports,Cricket
Mitchell Starc bowled a sensational opening spell to fire Kolkata Knight Riders to their third Indian Premier League title with an eight-wicket thrashing of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Sunday final.Kolkata bowled out Hyderabad for IPL's lowest total of 113 in a final as Australia's left-arm q...
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Four young children were among 27 people killed when a fire in India ripped through a crowded amusement park, police said, as rescuers on Sunday scoured the site the morning after the blaze.Survivors reported having to kick down doors and leap out of windows to escape the inferno that swept through ...
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The premiers of China and Japan arrived in Seoul Sunday for their first trilateral summit in five years, which is expected to focus on economic issues rather than sensitive geopolitics.Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are scheduled to meet with South Korean Presiden...
Aid trucks from Egypt began entering the Gaza Strip on Sunday through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, state-linked media Al-Qahera News reported.A total of "200 trucks" had moved from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, which has been shut since early May when Isr...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday urged US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping to attend a peace summit in Switzerland next month.The Ukrainian leader made the request in English in an emotive video showinghim standing in front of ruins in the heavily bombarded ea...
North Korea on Sunday accused the United States and South Korea of conducting more aerial espionage around the peninsula, warning it would take "immediate action" if its sovereignty was breached.America has deployed dozens of military planes "in air espionage against the DPRK from May...
Burkina Faso's military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks' chairman said. "The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024," Colonel Moussa Dial...
A British Royal Air Force pilot died after a Spitfire belonging to a Battle of Britain memorial fleet crashed in eastern England on Saturday, officials said.The World War II fighter plane was flying near the RAF Coningsby base in Lincolnshire when it came down in a field shortly after 1:00 pm (1200 ...
An Israeli official said Saturday the government had an “intention” to renew “this week” talks aimed at reaching a hostage release deal in Gaza, after a meeting in Paris between US and Israeli officials.“There is an intention to renew the talks this week and there is an...
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Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, on Saturday, a day after the top UN court ordered it to halt military operations in the southern city as efforts get underway in Paris to seek a ceasefire in the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack.The International Court of Justice (ICJ) also d...
Entertainment & Glomour
It is one of the most dramatic storylines ever delivered at Cannes: Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof walked the red carpet Friday after fleeing a prison sentence in his home country just days before the film festival.He received raucous standing ovations before and after the gala screening of &lsq...
The United Nations warned on Friday that escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State had forced around 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property.“Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent days by the fighti...
A US couple was among three missionaries shot and killed by a gang outside a church in the Haitian capital, which has endured months of extreme violence with deadly assaults on hospitals, prisons and government buildings.Missions in Haiti, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit founded in 2000, said Davy and N...
A massive landslide struck Papua New Guinea's highlands Friday, local officials and aid groups said, with many feared dead.The disaster hit in Kaokalam village, in Papua New Guinea's remote Enga province at around 3:00 am local time.Provincial governor Peter Ipatas told AFP that a big landsl...
Japan and South Korea on Friday announced separate sanctions packages targeting companies, vessels, or individuals allegedly involved in supplying North Korean weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, in violation of UN resolutions.South Korea accuses Pyongyang of sending thousands of containers of mun...
The United Nations warned on Friday that escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar's Rakhine State had forced around 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property."Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent days by the fighting ...
Iran's army has so far found no evidence of criminal activity in a helicopter crash that killed the country's president Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, state media reported.The 63-year-old died on Sunday after his helicopter went down in the country's mountainous northwest while returnin...
The world cannot look to UN peacekeepers as a way of stopping wars, whether in Gaza or other active conflict zones, the department chief told AFP, citing the famous Blue Helmets' inherent limitations.A mission in the occupied Palestinian territories, for example, is only "very, very, very h...
Russia on Friday said for the first time that the Islamic State group coordinated the March concert hall assault in Moscow, the country's deadliest terror attack in two decades.IS has claimed responsibility on multiple occasions for the March 22 attack which killed over 140 people, but Moscow ha...
Countries trying to thrash out a global agreement on handling future pandemics are hoping to seal the deal Friday after weeks of creeping progress in exhausting talks.Having ploughed past several previous deadlines, the hard stop of next week's annual gathering of the World Health Organization&#...
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