August2023

According to government sources, at least 19 people were killed and others were injured when an express train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday. Accidents and derailments are common on the country’s ancient railway system, which...

A municipal official said Sunday that plans to collect and hide thousands of stray canines before world leaders come in the megacity for next month’s G20 conference have been halted. The municipal government of New Delhi...

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s three-year prison sentence for bribery sparked scattered protests across the country, but there was no hint of a huge uprising on Sunday, despite his call for followers to protest. His...

On the 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic blast, Japan’s prime minister lashed out at Russian threats to deploy nuclear weapons. When the United States unleashed atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki...

Lubna Babar, a factory worker, was laid off at the start of the year, a victim of a crisis in Pakistan’s textile industry, which has seen it lose ground to more agile Asian competitors. “When you...

The Canadian government has guaranteed billions of dollars in fresh commercial loans to fund the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline project, despite rising fears about massive cost overruns. In 2018, the government nationalized the project, which runs...

Helene Carrere d’Encausse, an internationally respected Russian historian who became the first woman to lead the Academie Francaise in 1999, died on Saturday at the age of 94, according to her family. “She died peacefully surrounded...

On Saturday, Pope Francis will pay a quick visit to the shrine of Fatima in central Portugal as part of a large Catholic youth celebration. The 86-year-old pontiff, who landed in Lisbon on Wednesday, will fly...

The Chinese digital technology business ‘KFL Group of China’ has showed interest in investing approximately Taka 100 crore in the establishment of a router manufacturing unit in Bangladesh. A four-member delegation led by KFL Group President...

The BBC and Netflix have announced the commissioning of a series based on the Lockerbie bombing, which occurred nearly 35 years ago on a flight from London to New York. The British broadcaster and international streaming...