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Desperate people can start bloodbath, warns ousted Sri Lanka PM Wickremesinghe

Desperate people can start bloodbath, warns ousted Sri Lanka PM...

Ranil Wickremesinghe warned time is running out to avert a 'bloodbath' while voicing hope that parliament will resolve...

3 Nov 2018 12:07 PM IST

Police investigators work the scene of a shooting in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo: AP)

3 dead, including gunman, at yoga studio shooting in US' Florida

The shooting took place in a small Tallahassee shopping centre and the suspect fatally shot himself.

3 Nov 2018 9:18 AM IST

Irans Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met his Indian counterpart, Sushma Swaraj, in New York on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: AP)

US reimposes all Iran sanctions lifted under nuclear deal

The sanctions will take effect Monday and cover Iran's shipping, financial and energy sectors.

2 Nov 2018 9:11 PM IST

Maulana Samiul Haq, 82, was the head of the Islamic religious seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania in Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Akora Khattak town and also the chief of the hardline political party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Sami (JUI-S). (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Maulana Samiul Haq, 'godfather of Taliban', killed in gun attack in...

Maulana Samiul Haq was killed by unidentified attackers in a house where he was staying.

2 Nov 2018 8:57 PM IST

According to Aman Kapoor of Immigration Voice, H-1B extension change would be just wrong at every level. (Photo: Representational | File)

New US rule makes hiring tougher under H-1B, popular among Indians

Under new rule, US employers must disclose total number of foreigners already employed, making it tougher to sponsor...

2 Nov 2018 8:00 PM IST

Khashoggi had written a series of columns for the Washington Post that were critical of Saudi Arabias assertive Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has led a widely publicized drive to reform the Sunni monarchy but has also presided over the arrests of activists and businessmen. (Photo: AFP)

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved after murder: Turkish...

'We now see that it wasn't just cut up, they got rid of the body by dissolving it,' Yasin Aktay, an advisor to Turkish...

2 Nov 2018 5:41 PM IST

The father raped his 15-year-old daughter in 2015.

Sex abuse by officials part of women's daily routine in North Korea:...

'Those we spoke to told us that unwanted sexual contact is so common that it has come to be accepted as part of ordinary...

2 Nov 2018 4:34 PM IST

Jair Bolsonaro, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Sunday, October 28, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Taking cue from US, Brazil's Bolsonaro to move Israel embassy to...

'Israel is a sovereign state and we shall duly respect that,' he said. Israel's PM called the plan 'a historic, correct...

2 Nov 2018 3:58 PM IST

According to sources, police is now certain that apart from the citys most wanted gangster, Jitender Gogi, his close associates, Kuldeep Maan alias Fajja and Rohit Moi had executed the shooting. (Representational image)

Oklahoma shooting: 18-yr-old killed, 2 teenage girls hurt, woman in...

Amy Leann Hall, mother of at least one victim, is being held on preliminary charges of first-degree murder and shooting...

2 Nov 2018 3:09 PM IST

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

Sanctions on Khashoggi's killers may take 'handful more weeks': Mike...

The murder has placed a strain on the decades-old US-Saudi Arabia alliance and tarnished the image of Crown Prince...

2 Nov 2018 1:55 PM IST

I told them (troops) consider it (a rock) a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexican military and police, I say consider it a rifle. Trump told journalists. (Photo: AFP)

Trump threatens to shoot migrants who throw stones at US military

Pentagon says military will not discuss hypothetical scenarios but that 'our forces are trained professionals with right...

2 Nov 2018 10:50 AM IST

Rescuers conduct search operation in the waters of Ujung Karawang, West Java, Indonesia after a Lion Air plane crashed into the sea. (Photo: AP)

Pilot of crashed Lion Air plane made distress call from same jet on...

After the call, pilot updated control tower to say that the plane was flying normally and he would not return to the...

1 Nov 2018 7:27 PM IST