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Residents struggled in chaotic conditions to find their way to safety Porto Alegre: Nearly 70,000 people have been forced from their homes amid deadly flooding, mudslides and torrential storms in southern Brazil, with the major city of Porto Alegre particularly hard-hit, the country’s civil defense agency said Saturday. Raging floodwaters have left 57 dead, 74…
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The Washington Post claimed that American officials believe that the R&AW’s previous chief Samant Goel had approved an assassination operation against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun (in picture), a Khalistani activist lawyer of U.S. and Canadian nationality. File | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: India’s external intelligence agency R&AW (Research and Analysis Wing) was in the…
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Demonstrators have gathered on at least 40 US university campuses New Delhi: Student protests against the Israeli military assault on Gaza following the unprecedented October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel have spread to several countries. Here is a round-up of the main campaigns. Pro-Palestinian Protests In US Demonstrators have gathered on at least 40…
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Spain on May 4 denounced comments by Argentina’s presidency which had accused the Spanish government of bringing “poverty and death” to its own people. The office of Argentinian President Javier Milei had published a statement on X, accusing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of damaging Spain’s…
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Opinion polls predicted that Labour would win the next UK national election London: Britain’s Labour Party won mayoral polls in London and central England on Saturday, in crushing defeats for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s unpopular Conservatives ahead of a national election due later this year. While Labour politician Sadiq Khan’s re-election as London mayor was…
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Mediators have been unable to broker a new truce like the week-long ceasefire last November Jerusalem: A senior Hamas official insisted late Saturday that the group would “not agree under any circumstances” to a truce in Gaza that did not explicitly include a complete end to the war. The official, who asked not to be…
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File photo Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday condemned an attack on one of his party’s European Parliament deputies as a “threat” to democracy after investigators said a political motive was suspected. Police said four unknown attackers beat up Matthias Ecke, an MEP for the Social Democratic Party (SPD), as he put up EU…
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Representational Image New Delhi: A 13-year-old girl and his younger brother were found dead inside their father’s grocery shop in northwest Delhi’s Keshav Puram area on Saturday, police said. The children’s father Manish, who is suspected to have killed the two siblings, is on the run and efforts are on to nab him, they said….
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The Telangana Police has filed a closure report following a probe into Vemula’s death, Pune: Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday demanded that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi apologise for “politicising” the suicide of Rohith Vemula, the University of Hyderabad student who died in 2016, as police in a state ruled by his own party have…
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru pressed the self-destruction button halfway but a blazing fifty by captain Faf du Plessis had enough torque in it to carry them to a four-wicket over Gujarat Titans in their IPL match in Bengaluru on Saturday. Du Plesiss (64, 23b, 10×4, 3×6) and Kohli (42, 27b, 2×4, 4×6), who added 92 runs…