AMSTERDAM: More than 40 companies last year moved, or said they would move, their operations from Britain to the Netherlands in response to Brexit uncertainties, Dutch authorities reported on Saturday. The combined…
LUCKNOW: Indian health authorities are rushing medical supplies to north Indian towns and villages where at least 50 people have died from fever over the past two weeks, topping the number of…
GENEVA: Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with nearly the same number missing and thousands left homeless by the destruction, the International Federation of Red Cross and…
JAKARTA: A police crackdown on petty crime in the run-up to the Asian Games in Indonesia has claimed dozens of lives, Amnesty International said Friday, criticising what it said was an “unnecessary…
KABUL: Dozens of bodies of Afghan soldiers have been found in a military base that Taliban militants stormed last week in the embattled southern province of Uruzgan, officials said on Thursday. The…
TOKYO: A fire broke out at an office building under construction in Tokyo’s western suburbs on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring about 40 others, many seriously, authorities said. Another…
ALMATY: Police in Kazakhstan detained dozens of people at an anti-government rally on Saturday organized by an exiled opponent of the veteran president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Mukhtar Ablyazov, a former tycoon and government…
LISBON: At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire and stampede in a local leisure association in the town of Vila Nova da Rainha in northern Portugal…
LOS ANGELES: The founder of a Catholic school is among the 17 people killed in deadly mudslides and flooding in Southern California. Hundreds of rescuers and dogs continued searching for people Wednesday,…
TUNIS: More than 200 people were arrested and dozens hurt during clashes in several parts of Tunisia, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, after the second night of unrest driven by anger over…
More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of US policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President Bashar al Assad’s government to stop its persistent…
At least 17 people, including women, were killed and dozens of others injured in separate road accidents across Punjab on Saturday. According to details, four people, including a minor girl, were killed…
In another of its series of operation against eateries and food outlets serving unhygienic food, the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Wednesday sealed a number of restaurants and imposed heavy fines. International…
Officials in Afghanistan say Taliban insurgents have kidnapped dozens of passengers in an eastern province near the border with Pakistan Saturday. The incident happened in the Syed Karam district of south-eastern Paktia…
A bomb attack on a gathering of Shia Huthi fighters in central Yemen on Wednesday killed dozens of people, military and tribal sources said. The blast targeted the residence of a local…
Jihadists carried out a “massacre” in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious minority, officials said on Saturday. Jihadists from the…
Suspected insurgents killed 29 people in Nigeria’s embattled northeast, an official said Monday, the latest carnage in a surge of violence that has left more than 100 dead this month alone. The…
