Agencies

London: Six people, including the suspect, were killed in a shooting on Thursday evening in Plymouth, a port city in Devon in southwest England, local police confirmed.Devon and Cornwall Police tweeted that police were called to "a serious firearms...

Kabul: The Taliban Islamist movement (banned in Russia) has established control over Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-biggest city, the Associated Press news agency reported, citing regional authorities.The city was reportedly seized on late Thursday, with local officials fleeing to the airport...

Wuhan: Twenty-one people were killed and four others missing as heavy rain lashed a township in central China's Hubei Province from Wednesday to Thursday, local authorities said Friday.The Liulin Township in Suixian County saw total precipitation reaching 503 mm...

Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of the third dose of both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19 for immunocompromised people.“The country has entered yet another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and...

Mexico City: A Russian cargo plane has arrived in Cuba with 41.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid as the island nation is going through hard times due to the tightening of the US economic embargo, the state-run Prensa Latina news...

Kabul: The US is sending 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to assist in the evacuation of its people out of the country as the Taliban advances on Kabul.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said three battalions, one US Army and two Marines,...

Jajpur (Odisha): In a bizarre case of human revenge, a 45-year-old tribal man reportedly bit a snake to death after the latter bit him in a remote village in Odisha's Jajpur district.Kishore Badra of Gambharipatia village under Salijanga panchayat under...

Guwahati: Assam's COVID-19 death toll increased to 5,451 as 17 more people succumbed to the disease on Thursday, while 935 fresh cases pushed the tally to 5,77,970, a National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin said.The COVID-19 deaths were reported from...

Washington: The Biden administration is trying to get assurances from the Taliban terror group (banned in Russia) that the militants will not attack the US Embassy in Kabul if the group takes the capital, two American officials told the...

Berlin: Germany’s Foreign Office urged citizens on Thursday to take the earliest flight out of Afghanistan, as more cities fell to the militants."German citizens in the country are urged to take a scheduled flight out at the earliest...