17 girls killed in fire at school dormitory
BANGKOK: Seventeen girls died after a fire swept through the dormitory of a school for children of hill tribes in…
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US lifts ban on weapons sales to Vietnam
HANOI: US President Barack Obama yesterday scrapped a Cold War-era ban on weapons sales to Vietnam, as ties between the…
Lockerbie lawyer seeks US$330 mln from Putin, Russia for MH17 disaster
SYDNEY: The U.S. aviation lawyer who won compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing and is now seeking…
Scores dead in multiple IS group bombings in coastal regime strongholds in Syria
Syrian state TV says more than 65 people have been killed in multiple attacks in the coastal cities of Tartus…
Indian climber dies on Everest, two others missing
KATHMANDU: An Indian mountaineer has died on Mount Everest and two of his teammates are missing, expedition organisers said Monday,…
Egypt uses submarine to search for black box of lost airplane
CAIRO: Egypt has mobilized a commercial submarine to initiate the recovery of the black boxes of the Airbus A320 of EgyptAir, that…
Obama confirms Taliban leader’s death in US strike
President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed that Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US air strike, hailing…
17 schoolgirls die in Thailand school hostel fire
BANGKOK: Seventeen schoolgirls perished in a fire that burned their school hostel to the ground in Wiengpapao, Chiangrai province, northern Thailand, late…