An unidentified object believed to be a North Korean trash-filled balloon, on the surface of the Han River. — AFP/File SEOUL: North Korea has floated hundreds more trash-filled balloons southward, Seoul’s military said Saturday, the latest salvo in the two countries’ tit-for-tat campaigns of provocation and propaganda. North Korea has launched more than 900 trash … Read more
Last weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival, one of the largest street festivals in the world, saw a troubling surge in violence, with eight people stabbed and police making hundreds of arrests during the annual celebration in west London. In a late Monday update on their operations, London’s Metropolitan Police reported that five individuals were stabbed on … Read more
Doctors shout slogans during a protest demanding justice following the rape and murder of a female trainee medic at a hospital in Kolkata, in New Delhi, India, August 19, 2024. — Reuters KOLKATA: Police in India fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of Kolkata on Tuesday … Read more
Police in India fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of Kolkata on Tuesday to demand the resignation of a top state minister in the wake of a gruesome rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Protesters led by university students broke through the iron barricades set up … Read more
A car is trapped on a road flooded with rainwater, highlighting the city’s failing drain infrastructure after torrential rains, in Lahore on August 8, 2024. —APP Scores of people have died in India this month alone. Ninety-two children died across Pakistan since July. KP villages warned of risk of glacial lake flooding. NEW DELHI: Torrential storms … Read more
A drone attack that killed over 200 fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Bangladesh border on Monday has forced hundreds to return to their hometowns, while thousands are still taking shelter in paddy fields awaiting to cross into neighboring Bangladesh, a rights group said on Sunday. Risking their lives, a few hundred have moved toward areas … Read more
Dozens of Russian military personnel are being trained in Iran to use the Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, two European intelligence sources told Reuters, adding that they expected the imminent delivery of hundreds of the satellite-guided weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine. Russian defence ministry representatives are believed to have signed a contract … Read more