Category: Foreign News

U.S. police fire tear gas, stun grenades at protesters in Missouri town

Police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters in Ferguson, Missouri on Monday, after days of unrest sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman. […]



Plane crashes at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport; at least 38 reported dead: IRNA

An Iran-140 Sepahan Air passenger plane bound for Tabas in northeast Iran with 48 passengers and crew on board crashed on a road near Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on Sunday, killing at least 38 people, Iranian state media reported. […]



Top US General killed in Afghanistan

A U.S. general was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded on Tuesday, including a German general, in the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier, U.S., German and Afghan officials said. […]



7 Dead in Air Force Helicopter Crash Near Lucknow

New Delhi:  Seven people, including a Wong Commander and a Squadron Leader, have died in an Indian Air Force helicopter crash near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. […]



Algeria airliner missing on Sahara route from Burkina Faso

Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara. Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline said. […]



TransAsia Airways plane crashes in typhoon-hit Taiwan, killing 47

A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan on Wednesday, killing 47 people and setting buildings on fire, officials said. […]



Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 295 dead: agency

A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. […]



Fresh gun battle near Karachi airport

A fierce gun battle has erupted close to Pakistan’s busiest airport in the city of Karachi, a day after militants stormed one of its terminals. […]



Militants attack in Karachi airport, 23 dead

Gunmen attacked one of Pakistan’s biggest airports on Sunday and at least 23 people were killed, including all 10 of the attackers, media reported. […]



Five big challenges for Modi’s new government in India

Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister on Monday, taking charge of the world’s largest democracy as it struggles with an economic slowdown and a severe shortage of jobs for its booming young population. […]



Laos air force plane crashes, defence minister on board

A Laos air force plane with 14 people on board, including the defence minister, has crashed in the north of the Southeast Asian country, a Laos defence ministry source said on Saturday. […]



Modi wins India’s election with a landslide, early results show

Opposition candidate Narendra Modi will be the next prime minister of India, with counting trends showing the pro-business Hindu nationalist and his party headed for the most resounding election victory the country has seen in thirty years. […]



Thailand court ousts PM Yingluck Shinawatra

A Thai court has ruled that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra must step down over abuse of power charges. The Constitutional Court ruled that Ms Yingluck acted illegally when she transferred her national security head. […]



Malaysian police deny al-Qaeda links to MH370

Malaysian police on Sunday rejected a British report linking the missing Malaysian flight with al-Qaeda, describing it as “rubbish.” Earlier, it was reported that a group of eleven suspected terrorists with links to al-Qaeda were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370 and were being interrogated yesterday. […]



Samsung ordered to pay Apple $119.6m

Samsung has been ordered to pay $119.6m (£71m) to Apple by a US court for infringing two of its patents. A jury in California delivered its verdict in a federal court in San Jose on Friday in the latest lawsuit involving the two tech giants. […]



Hundreds killed, thousands missing in Afghan landslide

Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 2,000 are missing after a landslide smashed into a village in a mountainous area of north Afghanistan on Friday, and rescue teams were struggling to reach the remote area. […]