Israel said late Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before and which it says uses customers' deposits to finance attacks against Israel. At least 15 branches of Al-Qard Al-Hasan were hit late Sunday in the
Junior doctors in India's eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, in response to an appeal by the victim's parents. Protesters also met the chief minister of the opposition-led state, which h
An Israeli hostage was killed "under mysterious circumstances" in the northern Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera TV channel reported on Monday, citing an official source in the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. The anonymous source said the Israeli hostage was killed in one of the combat areas in
At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in India's Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel construction site, officials said, days after a new government was formed in the territory. An opposition alliance took power in the region this month after w
Among the thousand plus well-wishers gathered to greet King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Monday was Hephner, a nine-year old alpaca in a suit with a crown perched atop his fluffy white head. Hephner, named in honour of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, waited
At least 12 people, including eight children and two women, died, and several others were injured in a road accident in India's western state of Rajasthan on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, confirmed local police over the phone. The road mishap occurred in the state's Dholpur area wh
Israel said its air force attacked Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in Beirut on Sunday as well as an underground workshop for the production of weapons. In a statement, the Israeli military said its fighter jets killed three Hezbollah commanders, including Alhaj Abbas Salameh, a senior figur
A mysterious explosion has rocked the area near a school in the Indian capital of New Delhi, according to Indian media reports. The blast, which occurred around 7:47am on Sunday, was powerful enough to damage the wall of the CRPF School, along with nearby shop windows and a parked car, reports bdn
Malaysian government plans to make the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) for all foreign workers employed in the Southeast Asian country. The initiative proposal will be implemented in phases, said Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim while tabling the national budget in the Dewan Rakyat
The Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired dozens of rockets and several drones into northern Israel on Saturday killing one person, with one drone directed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's holiday home, according to his spokesman. The volley from the Iran-backed Lebanese
A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in northeast Sri Lanka, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of its tankers got derailed, authorities said. The collision happened in the town of Minneriya — about 200 kilometers (124 miles)
A drone was launched towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday, his spokesman said, adding that the premier was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties. Earlier, the Israeli military said that a drone was launched from Le
Twice since July 2022, Moninder Singh, spokesperson for a Sikh advocacy group in Canada’s British Columbia province, has had police come to his door in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey. Twice, Singh said, they warned him that he faced an imminent risk of assassination, though they did not say
