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Families perched on trees with young children overnight as flood waters swept away homes in a village in southern district of Chitwan, local media reported. (Photo: AP)

Nepal: Death toll from floods, landslide rises to 40

Torrential downpours have destroyed homes and infrastructure in more than a dozen districts since Friday morning.

13 Aug 2017 4:00 PM IST

Syria Commandos kill 25 jihadists in central Syria: monitor

Syria Commandos kill 25 jihadists in central Syria: monitor

The raid allowed regime forces to seize control of three villages in the area, official news agency SANA reported the...

13 Aug 2017 3:33 PM IST

Afternoon traffic passes in front of a wall painted with US and Guam flags in the Tumon district on the island of Guam. (Photo: AP)

Guam residents pray for peace after N Korea missile threats

Despite Guam having become the center of a threatened showdown between the US and nuclear-armed North Korea, many said...

13 Aug 2017 2:00 PM IST

People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. (Photo: AP)

Virginia White Nationalist gathering: 3 die as clashes erupt, Trump...

The violence erupted between two groups in this university town some 120 miles south west of the national capital.

13 Aug 2017 1:12 PM IST

The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. (Photo: AP)

'Many sides' to blame for Virginia violence: Trump

Trump also contends that the 'hatred and bigotry' broadcast across the country had taken root long before his political...

13 Aug 2017 12:41 PM IST

Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim, who was imprisoned in North Korea for more than two years returns to Canada. (Photo: AFP)

Canadian pastor returns home after release from N Korean prison

Hyeon Soo Lim, was arrested in Jan 2015 on charges of subversive activities against the N Korean regime, an accusation...

13 Aug 2017 9:42 AM IST

Marco Frigatti, Head of Records for Guinness World Records, presents Yisrael Kristal a certificate for being the oldest living man last year. (Photo: AP)

Jerusalem: World's oldest man, Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 114

Yisrael Kristal was born to an Orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow in Poland in 1903.

13 Aug 2017 9:24 AM IST

Pakistans army says terrorists have targeted a military truck with a bomb killing many soldiers and civilians and several injured. (Photo: AP)

Bomb blast kills 17, injures 30 in Balochistan's Quetta

The high intensity blast occurred in a parking lot near Pishin bus stop which is in a high security area.

13 Aug 2017 9:04 AM IST

Armed Kenyan police to disperse protesters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Kenya on edge over election fraud claims spark deadly protests

A senior police official told on condition of anonymity that eight bodies from Nairobi's slums had arrived at the city...

13 Aug 2017 8:47 AM IST

German Chancellor and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for the upcoming election Angela Merkel delivers a speech in Dortmund. (Photo: AP)

Angela Merkel kicks off bizarre campaign for Sept poll

The CDU has plumped for a soft-focus campaign centred on patriotism and Merkel herself.

13 Aug 2017 6:18 AM IST

Protesters of Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga demonstrate in the Mathare area of Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

11 killed in Kenya as election riots flare up

The bodies of nine young men shot dead overnight in Nairobi's Mathare slum had been brought to the city morgue, a...

13 Aug 2017 6:12 AM IST

Ousted Pak PM Nawaz Sharif waves to his supporters during a rally in Muridke, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

Ousted PM Nawaz Sharif says people owners of Pak

The former PM said the mandate of the people had never been respected for the past 70 years in the country.

13 Aug 2017 6:08 AM IST