Fifteen people have been killed with dozens of others injured after flash floods hit Agam Regency in Indonesia's West Sumatra province on Saturday evening, according to the national disaster management agency BNPB. "Eleven bodies were found in Canduang district and four others in Sungai Pua distri
A bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in Indonesia’s West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others, officials said Sunday. The bus carrying 61 students and teachers was returning to a high school in D
Hajj pilgrims will have a unique opportunity to utilise flying taxis and drones for transportation in Saudi Arabia this year. Saudi Minister of Transport and Logistics, Saleh Al Jasser gave the information while speaking at a press briefing after welcoming the first batch of foreign pilgrims at Pr
The death toll from devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan has risen to 153 people across three provinces, the Taliban’s interior ministry said on Saturday. At least 138 people have also been injured in the flooding across northern Baghlan, Takhar and Badakhshan, caused by heavy ra
India’s opposition said the nation’s election commission was allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to continue “unchecked and brazen” violations by not taking action on opposition complaints of religious hate speech and misrepresentation. More than halfway through India&rsq
Flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan killed at least 50 people on Friday, a Taliban official said. The floods also caused losses to homes and property in several districts, according to Edayatullah Hamdard, the provincial director of Natural Disaster Managem
India has pulled out all of its soldiers from the Maldives, meeting a deadline to complete withdrawal of all troops from the archipelagic country, according to India-based news outlets. Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu had set the May 10 deadline for withdrawal of Indian troops from his country.
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council ‘reconsider the matter favourably’. The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global
Indian security forces killed at least 12 Maoist rebels in a gun battle in central India on Friday, the chief minister of Chhattisgarh state said, the third major encounter in recent weeks amid ongoing national elections. The rebels, who follow a form of communism propagated by late Chinese leader
Israeli tanks captured the main road dividing the eastern and western halves of Rafah on Friday, effectively encircling the entire eastern side of the city in the southern Gaza Strip. Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of the city on Friday, with intense
India’s top court gave temporary bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case on Friday, allowing him to campaign in the ongoing general elections, boosting the opposition alliance of which he is a key leader The court said the temporary bail would last until June 1, the last
India is projecting its biggest power shortfall in 14 years in June after a slump in hydropower generation, its government told Reuters, and is racing to avoid outages by deferring planned plant maintenance and re-opening idled units. The deficit also follows delays, a government source said, in t
Six months into an offensive against Myanmar ’s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country's bitter civil war, reports AP. The
