Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods
Floods and landslides have killed almost 300 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi
In Myanmar, more than 235,000 people have...
Kenya school fire kills at least 17 children
The blaze in Nyeri county’s Hillside Endarasha Academy broke out at around midnight
The primary school caters to some 800 pupils, aged between roughly five and 12
India searches for coast guard crew after helicopter crash
AHMEDABAD - India on Tuesday deployed four ships and two aircraft to trace three missing coast guard members after their helicopter crashed into the Arabian Sea during a rescue operation. The coast...
Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis in emergency shelters after floods
The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the week
Pakistan flies home the injured and the bodies of 28 Shiite pilgrims killed in...
Iran has one of the world’s worst traffic safety records with some 17,000 deaths annually
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan brought home Friday the bodies of 28 Shiite...
Death toll rises to 17 in blast at Indian pharmaceutical factory
Nearly 40 people were injured and rescue operations had been completed
HYDERABAD: India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh wrapped up rescue efforts on Thursday at...
Bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashes in Iran, killing at least...
The pilgrims were on their way to Iraq to commemorate Arbaeen, which marks the 40th day following the death of a Shiite saint in the 7th century.
Former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive Susan Wojcicki has died at 56
Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to...
‘It’s a thunderbolt,’ say Palestinians of Hamas chief’s killing
Hamas and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced that Haniyeh had been killed in Tehran in an Israeli air strike
The killing of Hamas leader Ismail...
In Afghanistan, Taliban ban on girls’ education leaves thousands of classrooms empty
About 1.1 million girls denied access to formal education since Taliban ban in 2021
Afghanistan had about 4,000 secondary and high schools for girls