Last Updated:March 30, 2025, 10:23 IST Over 1,600 people have so far been declared dead in the earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday. In view of rescue ops, anti-coup fighters have declared a partial ceasefire. Myanmar earthquake updates: Death toll soars past 1,600 (Reuters Image) The death toll in the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in
Last Updated:March 29, 2025, 23:00 IST Three strikes took place late Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, targeting the Pakistani Taliban’s hideouts in the area bordering Afghanistan, according to officials. The Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) has been responsible for several attacks in Pakistan. (AFP Image) At least 11 people were killed Saturday in northern Pakistan when the army
An estimated 200,000-plus jubilant Newcastle United supporters have turned out to celebrate their sensational Carabao Cup victory at Wembley earlier this month with an open-top bus parade this afternoon. Eddie Howe’s side ended their lengthy 70-year wait for a domestic trophy after beating Liverpool, courtesy of goals from local hero Dan Burn and Alexander Isak. Federico
The deadline to apply for the government-run debris clearance program for the Eaton and Palisades fires has been extended by two weeks, and owners of some multiunit properties are now eligible, officials said Friday. The deadline to submit a right-of-entry form and opt in to the U.S. Army Corps’ cleanup has been extended from March
Last Updated:March 28, 2025, 18:56 IST In response to the escalating tensions, authorities have imposed a curfew in affected areas of Kathmandu. The Nepal Army was also deployed to maintain order Pro-monarchy demonstrators pelt stones on Nepal police vehicle during a protest to demand a Hindu state, in Kathmandu on March 28, 2025. (AFP photo)
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new army chief ahead of planned protests on Monday, called by a group of war veterans who want to force the president to resign. The former major general, Emmanuel Matatu, takes over with immediate effect. President Mnangagwa has faced calls from his former supporters to step down citing
Search efforts remain underway for four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania, leaving behind a sunken military vehicle, a NATO spokesperson clarified Wednesday, despite earlier claims that they were deceased. NATO said the search is “ongoing” and that the fate of the missing “is still unknown,” according to a statement posted
Barbara Plett Usher BBC News, Port Sudan AFP Civilians have been celebrating the army’s recent territorial gains in Khartoum Sudan’s military leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has visited the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum, after landing at the city’s international airport, just hours after it was recaptured by the army. Surrounded by cheering soldiers
The Sudanese army is encircling Khartoum airport as it battles to oust its rival Rapid Support Forces from its final foothold in Sudan’s capital. The Sudanese army on Wednesday said it had gained control of the RSF’s last base in central Sudan and last stronghold in Khartoum State, the Tiba al-Hassanab camp south of the
A Sudanese war monitor has accused the military of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country’s western Darfur region. The Emergency Lawyers group – which documents abuses by both sides in Sudan’s civil war that erupted in April 2023 – said the bombing of Tur’rah market was a