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16-08-2023 TOKYO: Typhoon Lan pummeled western Japan on Tuesday, prompting local officials to issue evacuation warnings, knocking out power to thousands of homes, canceling hundreds of flights and disrupting summer traditions like a nationwide baseball tournament. Moving in from the Pacific Ocean, the tropical storm had maximum sustained winds of …

16-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban is marking the second anniversary of its return to power with a public holiday, celebrating the takeover of Kabul and the establishment of what it described as security across the country under an “Islamic system”. “On the second anniversary of …

16-08-2023 MOSCOW: As many as 30 people lost their lives including three children when a powerful explosion took place followed by a fire in a filling station in the capital city of the Republic of Dagestan, leaving over 100 others injured, according to media report early Tuesday. At least 13 …

16-08-2023 DHAKA: Thousands of enraged demonstrators marched across Bangladesh shouting anti-government slogans after a powerful Jamaat-e-Islaami opposition leader, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, died of a heart attack in jail on Monday at the age of 83. Sayedee, vice president of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, died in a prison hospital early Monday …

15-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Nine people have died and dozens more are feared trapped after an ancient Hindu temple collapsed in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh due to heavy rains. Rescue operations are underway after the temple in the popular tourist town of Shimla was hit …

15-08-2023 JERUSALEM: As tens of thousands of Israelis continue to join weekly protests over the government’s highly controversial plans to change the justice system, as many as one in three citizens is thinking of leaving the country, according to a poll. Professor Chen Hofmann is one of them. Together with …

15-08-2023 NEW YORK: Elon Musk “isn’t serious” about holding a cage fight and “it’s time to move on”, Mark Zuckerberg has said. In a post on his social media site Threads, the Meta boss said he had offered Musk “a real date” but the rival entrepreneur had made excuses. Musk …

15-08-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected key munitions factories, including a tactical missile production plant, and ordered a “drastic” boost in the manufacturing of missiles, rocket-launcher shells and other weapons, according to state media. The inspections, reported on Monday, are the latest in a string of …

15-08-2023 AMMAN: A drone carrying crystal meth has been downed by Jordan’s military as it flew into Jordanian territory from neighboring Syria, state news agency Petra reported. Petra on Sunday quoted a source within the Jordanian armed forces as saying that the drone was “taken control of and downed”, and …

15-08-2023 NIAMEY: Niger’s military says it will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for treason, hours after a group of senior Islamic scholars said the country’s coup leaders are open to diplomacy to resolve their standoff with West Africa’s regional bloc. In a statement read out on national television late on …