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Chennai: The year was 1977. It was a different world, yet it was the same. The world was largely an analogue one – computers were in their infancy, television had just started to make its headway into the households, no...

Manila: The death toll from heavy rain and floods triggered by shear line in the Philippines has climbed to 44, said the government's disaster agency on Friday.At least 28 others were still missing, according to the National Disaster Risk...

Phnom Penh: The death toll has risen to 25 after a massive fire engulfed a hotel-casino in northwest Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province, officials said on Friday."This (Friday) morning, rescue teams recovered six more bodies from the charred rooms of...

Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday announced the ending of all restrictions on public activities previously introduced in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic."The COVID-19 pandemic has been under control in the past few months and as...

Sao Paulo: Former Brazilian football star Pele, three-time World Cup champion, died on Thursday at the age of 82 in a hospital in Sao Paulo, victim of colon cancer, his doctors officially reported.The Athlete of the Century had been...

Yerenvan: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday called on Russia to initiate a discussion in the United Nations Security Council on the blockade of the Lachin corridor, the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.Since December 12, the road,...

Melbourne:Another poor batting display saw South Africa succumb to a defeat by an innings and 182 runs on Day 4 of the Boxing Day Test at MCG here on Thursday.This series win sets Australia perfectly for the India challenge...

Phnom Penh: At least ten people have died, and 30 others have been injured in a massive fire at the Grand Diamond City casino-hotel in the town of Poipet on the Cambodian-Thai border, Poipet Town Hall Administration chief Nhem...

Manila:The death toll from heavy rain and floods triggered by shear line in the Philippines has climbed to 32, according to the government data released on Thursday.The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council tallied 23 deaths in southern...

Kiev:Air raid warnings were issued throughout Ukraine on Thursday, according to the digital transformation ministry's live map.Earlier in the day, air raid alerts went off throughout Ukraine in the regions of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia,...