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$The Wild Boars team will have to squeeze through an extremely narrow tunnel in pitch blackness -- the main \crisis\ point that looms near the end of their treacherous escape bid. (Photo: AFP)$ World

'Biggest crisis spot' looms near end of Thai cave as rescue operation...

Rescue effort is likely to take two to three days to complete, Major General Chalongchai Chaiyakorn, an army commander,...

8 July 2018 4:04 PM IST

In Las Vegas, the panic buttons are part of contract negotiations by the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. (Photo: ANI)

Las Vegas' hospitality giants to give panic buttons to workers

Two of largest hotel, casino resorts will provide housekeepers, cocktail waitresses with 'car remote size' panic buttons...

8 July 2018 1:25 PM IST

In practical terms, Pompeo mentioned only that officials from both sides would meet on July 12 to discuss the repatriation of the remains of some US soldiers killed during the 1950-1953 Korean War. (Photo: AP)

US dismisses N Korea's 'gangster-like' tag, says sanctions will stay

Speaking in Tokyo, Pompeo said his efforts to push North Korea on disarmament had backing of the entire international...

8 July 2018 12:59 PM IST

$The tone was in stark comparison to Pompeos characterisation of the talks in Pyongyang as a success, though critically he failed to present any new details as to how North Korea would honour its summit commitment to \denuclearise\ in exchange for US security guarantees. (Photo: AFP)$ World

N. Korea slams 'gangster-like' US after nuclear talks

Key sticking point remains the two sides' very different understandings of commitment Kim made to nuclear disarmament at...

8 July 2018 12:21 PM IST

Between the operating base manned by Thai Navy Seals inside the cave and the trapped boys are twisting, turning cave passageways with torrents of water gushing through. (Photo: AP)

'Today is D-Day': Thai boys ready to see daylight after more than 2...

Rescue chief said first boy was expected to be brought out of cave by around 9:00 pm (1400 GMT), meaning trip would take...

8 July 2018 11:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the rescue efforts a battle with time. (Photo: AP)

Death toll rises to 48, at least 100 missing in Japan floods

Authorities warned landslides could strike even after rain subsides as the calamity shaped up to be potentially the...

8 July 2018 9:10 AM IST

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief. (Photo: AP)

US demand of irreversible denuclearisation 'troubling': North Korea

'We had anticipated US side would come with constructive idea, thinking we would take something in return,' North Korean...

7 July 2018 9:17 PM IST

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wrapped up two days of talks with senior North Korean officials without meeting Kim Jong Un. (Photo: AP)

North Korean foreign ministry describes talks with Pompeo as...

Statement says US betrayed spirit of Trump-Kim summit by unilateral demands on complete, verifiable, irreversible...

7 July 2018 7:26 PM IST

Pompeo spoke after emerging from more than eight hours of talks over two days with North Korean leader Kim Jong Uns right-hand man Kim Yong Chol in a Pyongyang diplomatic compound. (Photo: AFP)

Pompeo insists that talks with North Korea were 'very prodcutive'

He said some progress had been made towards agreeing 'the modalities' of North Korea's destruction of a missile...

7 July 2018 6:58 PM IST

To all the parents, all the kids are still fine. I promise to take the very best care of the kids, read the note written by Ekkapol Chantawong, the sole adult trapped in the cave. (Photo: @ThaiSEAL/Facebook)

Thai coach apologises to families of trapped children in handwritten...

It is the first message from the coach, whose role in the team's predicament has received flak on social media.

7 July 2018 9:22 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 yrs in prison on graft charges

Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Mohammed Safdar were handed down jail terms of seven and one year,...

7 July 2018 12:54 AM IST

Gaya MP Hari Manjhis son Rahul Manjhi, along with his friend, was arrested by the police in a drunken state on Sunday and was sent to Gaya central jail for violating prohibition law. (Representational image)

Indian-origin woman jailed for role in US Navy's largest fraud...

Gursharan had received more than SGD 130,000 in bribes from Leonard Glenn Francis in exchange for sensitive US Navy...

6 July 2018 7:14 PM IST