India has said its security forces killed three militants who shot dead 26 civilians near a tourist town in Indian-administered Kashmir in April, triggering a brief military conflict with Pakistan. Home Minister Amit Shah told parliament the men had been killed by Indian forces near the disputed region’s main city Srinagar on Monday. He claimed […]
A gunman who killed four people when he stormed a skyscraper in the heart of New York on Monday evening left a note that appeared to blame the National Football League (NFL) for a brain injury, the city’s Mayor Eric Adams has said. The attacker, 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, shot himself dead after […]
Four people, including a member of the New York Police Department, were killed today in Midtown Manhattan, authorities said tonight. The police officer, 36, was a three-and-a-half year veteran of the department and an immigrant from Bangladesh, Mayor Eric Adams said. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified the gunman as Shane Devon Tamura from […]
President Donald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition of Rupert Murdoch in his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, citing the media mogul’s advanced age. Trump sued the billionaire over an article in the Journal, which is owned by Murdoch’s News Corp, that alleged the president had written a “bawdy” […]
University of Coloradofootball coach Deion Sanders announced Monday that he had undergone surgery to remove his bladder after doctors discovered a tumor there. Sanders said, since the surgery, there are no traces of cancer, and he will continue to coach this season. In a packed Touchdown Club in the Dal Ward Athletic Center, Sanders appeared […]
A young metro Atlanta inventor, who previously made headlines for his unique solution to turn waste into fuel, has been missing for two weeks, according to social media posts. Julian Brown, in his 20s, recently went viral for his invention – ‘Plastoline’ – which converts old plastics into usable fuels like gasoline, diesel, and jet […]
The former head of the Central African Republic (CAR) football federation, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, has been found guilty of committing 28 war crimes and crimes against humanity by judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was accused, alongside Alfred Yekatom, of co-ordinating attacks against the country’s Muslim population in 2013-14. Yekatom, nicknamed Rambo, was found […]
India has resumed issuing tourist visas to Chinese nationals after a five-year gap as the two countries continue to explore ways to mend their strained relationship. The Indian embassy in Beijing made the announcement on Wednesday via the Chinese social media app Weibo, the state-owned Global Times newspaper reported. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun […]
Tesla has said it will build cheaper cars and win approval for its self-driving software in Europe this year after seeing sales fall at the sharpest rate in at least a decade. Elon Musk’s electric car firm told investors it had started “first builds of a more affordable model in June” while posting a slump […]
Russian officials say 48 people were killed when an Angara Airlines plane went down in a dense forest in the far-eastern Amur region. The Antonov An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials said. A Russian […]
Clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops at their disputed border have killed at least 12 people, Thai authorities say. The fighting marks an escalation of a dispute between the two South East Asian neighbours that dates back more than a century. Most of the casualties were civilians from three Thai provinces, according to Thailand’s army, […]
