International

November 4, 2023 4:28 PM

Rescuers struggle to find Nepal quake survivors, deaths at 137

Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country's worst earthquake in eight years killed 137 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi. The quake struck the Jajarkot region in the w...

November 4, 2023 2:48 PM

Blinken to hear call for Gaza ceasefire from regional ministers in Jordan

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hear demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza when he meets Middle East foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, Jordan's foreign ministry said. Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers as well as Palestinian representativ...

November 4, 2023 12:50 PM

Death toll in Palestine-Israel conflict exceeds 10,800

The current round of Palestine-Israel conflict has claimed the lives of more than10,800 people on both sides, at least 9,200 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis, as of Friday, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources. The Gaza-based health authority said on Friday that the current round of confli...

November 4, 2023 11:05 AM

Nepal quake kills 128, reduces village to rubble

At least 128 people were killed and scores more injured after a powerful quake hit western Nepal, reducing some buildings in Jajarkot to piles of rubble, video filmed on Saturday (November 4) morning showed. Local officials said it had not been possible to establish contact in the area near the e...

November 4, 2023 11:00 AM

Militants attack air force base in central Pakistan -military

Six militants attacked an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali on Saturday morning damaging three aircraft, the country's military said. Three militants were killed before they entered the base and the other three had been cornered, the military said in a stateme...

November 3, 2023 3:51 PM

U.S. top diplomat lands in Israel to press for pauses in Gaza war

The United States' top diplomat Antony Blinken landed in Tel Aviv on Friday (November 3) to push for humanitarian pauses in the Gaza war as Israel said it had surrounded the Palestinian enclave's biggest city and the focus of its drive to annihilate Hamas. Blinken, on his second trip to...

November 3, 2023 3:29 PM

Hundreds evacuated as strong winds fan wildfire in eastern Spain

Spanish authorities have evacuated at least 800 people around the coastal town of Gandia in the eastern region of Valencia after a wildfire broke out there and spread quickly overnight amid strong winds, officials said on Friday. The region, and a large swathe of the eastern portion of the Iberia...

November 3, 2023 2:37 PM

Pakistan ignores calls to rethink Afghan expulsions, adds border centres

Pakistan opened more border centres on Friday to expedite the return of tens of thousands of undocumented Afghan nationals, an official said, ignoring calls by refugee and rights groups to reconsider its mass-expulsion plans. Facilities at the northwestern border crossing of Torkham, where most i...