Flood-hit Sri Lanka pulls more bodies from landslides
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan soldiers pulled more bodies from landslides and distributed food and water to hundreds of thousands of residents…
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Elvis guitar fetches $334,000 at New York auction
NEW YORK: A guitar given to Elvis Presley by his father in 1969 went under the hammer for $334,000 in…
Two dead, 11 injured in Austrian shooting rampage
VIENNA: A 27-year-old man opened fire on people after a concert in a village in western Austria, killing two people…
Taliban leader Mansour ‘likely killed’ in US drone strike
WASHINGTON: An American drone strike targeted and “likely killed” Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a remote area of Pakistan,…
Netflix recreates drug kingpin Escobar’s death
LOS ANGELES: Slumped on a terracotta rooftop, Pablo Escobar succumbs to multiple bullet wounds, blood leaching from his chest, signaling…
‘Smoke on board’ EgyptAir plane before crash
CAIRO: Smoke was detected inside an EgyptAir plane shortly before it plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, investigators…
Smoke doesn’t reveal what caused EgyptAir crash, experts say
PARIS: Smoke detected in the cabin shortly before EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed into the Mediterranean suggests there was a fire…
‘At least 60,000 dead’ in Syria regime prisons
BEIRUT: At least 60,000 people have died in Syrian government prisons over the past five years from torture or due…