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The passenger train hurtled down a side track near Cayce around 2:45am Sunday after a stop 10 miles north in Columbia because a switch was locked in place, diverting it from the main line. (Photo: AP)World
Deadly Amtrack train accident 'avoidable': US investigators

Sunday's crash sent 116 of the 147 people on board the New York-to-Miami train to the hospital.

5 Feb 2018 4:10 PM IST

Former petroleum minister and senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. (Photo: AFP)World
India has much to hide, peace elusive till Kashmir issue resolved,...

Pakistan called upon the international community to urge India to 'respect the Human Rights Charter.'

5 Feb 2018 3:32 PM IST

US-Russia ties are strained at best, as the controversy over what US intelligence says was Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election drags on. (Photo: File)World
Respect nuclear limits under New START Treaty: US to Russia

On Thursday, Nauert had said that Washington had no reason to believe' that Russia would not meet its goals.

5 Feb 2018 2:55 PM IST

Declassified memo claims that Democrat-funded research prompted the FBI to spy on a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page. (Photo: File)World
Firing officials over FBI probe can spark confrontation': Democrats to...

The warnings came two days after the Republican-led House intelligence committee released a declassified memo.

5 Feb 2018 1:34 PM IST

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will travel to South Korea for the opening ceremony of the Games, where he is expected to hold talks on Korean comfort women used by the Japanese as war-time sex slaves. (Photo: File)World
Japan protests unified Korea Olympic flag with disputed isles

The two Koreas have agreed to march together under the unification flag at the Games' opening ceremony on February 9.

5 Feb 2018 12:43 PM IST

Trump vowed during his State of the Union address last week to extend an open hand to both parties in pursuing an immigration deal that shields 1.8 million undocumented migrants from deportation. (Photo: AP)World
US Congress gridlocked as budget, immigration deadlines loom

Republican leaders have acknowledged they will not meet a Thursday deadline for a spending bill.

5 Feb 2018 12:21 PM IST

The Silver Star was on its way from New York to Miami with nearly 150 people aboard around 2:45 am when it plowed into the CSX train at an estimated 59 mph. (Photo: AP)World
South Carolina: Amtrak train crashes killing 2, injuring 116

It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months.

5 Feb 2018 10:07 AM IST

The government had expressed \concerns\ over the judicial order and resisted complying with it, but the court said there can be no excuses. (Photo: AFP)World
Maldives crisis deepens as court orders President Yameen to comply

Dissidents must be released because their trials were politically motivated and flawed, the Supreme Court said in a...

5 Feb 2018 8:53 AM IST

The Pentagon on Friday released the Nuclear Posture Review in which it said that the US wants to prevent China from mistakenly concluding that any use of nuclear weapons, however limited, is acceptable. (Photo: File)World
China shuns US nuclear report, asks to shun 'cold war mentality'

China said that it is firmly opposed' to the NPR published by the US Department of Defence.

4 Feb 2018 6:49 PM IST

But Trumps arrival in the White House a year ago, and his regular denunciations of the deal with Iran and the country in general, cooled their ardour. (Photo: File)World
Trump is trying to destabilize market, oil, gas contracts: Iran...

Trump is trying to destabilise market conditions for those who want to work in Iran.'

4 Feb 2018 6:34 PM IST

The reinstatement of the dozen legislators gave the opposition a majority in the 85-member assembly, and it can now potentially impeach Yameen. (Photo: AP)World
Maldives: Political crisis deepens as govt warns SC against...

The tiny tourist archipelago has been plunged into a political crisis pitting the country's top court against President...

4 Feb 2018 6:16 PM IST

Banks received 3 trillion rupees ($44.4 billion) of 500- and 1,000-rupee notes over the last four days.World
Where's all the money going? 7,000 super-rich Indians shifted base in...

India is home to 3,30,400 high net worth individual. Globally, India was ranked 9th in this aspect.

4 Feb 2018 5:44 PM IST

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