An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun seriously wounded a Greek Orthodox priest in a shooting outside a church in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, with the country still reeling from a deadly church attack days before. Nikolaos Kakavelaki, 52, was closing his Lyon church

Typhoon Goni, Asia's most powerful typhoon this year, has made landfall in the Philippines with maximum sustained winds of 225km/h (140mph). The state weather service said the typhoon hit Catanduanes island on Sunday at 04:50 local time (19:50 GMT Saturday). It has since crossed

Lt Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur, flagged off the first Ultimate Ladakh Cycling challenge rally from the Nawang Dorjey Stobdan Stadium on Tuesday. The four-day cycle rally is organised by the Ladakh police department and Ladakh Tourism Department in collaboration with the Cycling

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was "not without limits" and should not "arbitrarily and needlessly hurt" certain communities. "We will always defend freedom of expression," Trudeau said in response

Traditional and cultural activities in the Kashmir valley have slowly picked up after a long gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic. After the J-K administration allowed sports and cultural activities to restart in the valley, several local artists and groups have organised events to promote

Canada plans to bring in more than 1.2 million new immigrants over the next three years, the federal immigration minister said on Friday, as the country tries to fill gaps in its labour market and boost the economy, both hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to reporters in

The hat trick of Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) public rallies in Pakistan has proved one level past doubt that the Pakistan Army has been introduced into the area of grassroot public debate as by no means earlier than. Three instances prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz

At least 26 people were killed in Turkey and Greece when a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, sending buildings crashing down and triggering what authorities have called a "mini tsunami." Officials said 24 people were killed in coastal areas in

In a final burst of campaigning, US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden have criss-crossed Midwestern states that may hold the keys to the White House. Mr Biden went on the offensive in Iowa, a state that voted for Mr Trump by 10 points in 2016. Mr Trump

After a spot of 18 years, the federal government of India is taking steps to domesticate land on the zero line in border areas in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua. To evaluate the bottom realities on the zero line and put together for farming, Deputy Commissioner Kathua OP Bhagat, a

Saudi Arabia has removed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan from Pakistan’s map, said Pakistan- occupied Kashmir (PoK) activist Amjad Ayub Mirza on Wednesday. “Saudi Arab removes Pakistani occupied Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan from Pakistan’s

After President Donald Trump took the controversial step of commuting the jail sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, Sen. Susan Collins was again stuck between openly disagreeing with the leader of her party and appealing to the Trump-aligned voters she needs to win a tough

At least 140 Europe-bound migrants have drowned off the coast of Senegal in the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year, the United Nations migration agency said on Thursday. The boat carrying 200 passengers caught fire and capsized on Saturday a few hours after leaving the fishing town

The US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed several issues of regional and global concern, including the COVID-19 response, security, and defence cooperation, and shared interests in a free and open

Slamming the Imran Khan government over the Peshawar blast, Pakistan Muslim League (N), or PML(N) leader Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday stated that terrorism was raising its ugly head. While talking to the media after his arrival in Karachi, Iqbal said that the explosion had proved that the

Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley on Saturday targeted China and said Beijing is the "absolute number one" national security threat to the US. Speaking during a fireside chat event organised by the Indian Voices for Trump in the battleground state of

A knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar" beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials said. Nice's mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as

Election day in the United States is next Tuesday, November 3 and Donald Trump and Joe Biden continue crisscrossing the country in these final days making their closing arguments to the millions of Americans who have yet to cast a ballot. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a record

Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the region in decades.  The landslides, which hit remote areas in the central province

Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday (Oct 28), in an escalation of a month-long conflict over the mountain enclave that has defied three ceasefires. Azerbaijan said 19 people were killed when