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In this photograph taken on January 17, 2020, Bangladeshi man Habibur Rahman looks on as he lies in a bed at a hospital in Sylhet. The septuagenarian has reunited with his family 48 years after his disappearance after a video posted on Facebook seeking help for his treatment was noticed by a relative living in the United States. Habibur Rahman, a former businessman from Sylhet, disappeared in 1972 as he went out on some work to Chittagong.World
Viral video reunites Bangladeshi man with family after 48 years

An appeal for help for medical treatment reaches grandchildren living in the United States

20 Jan 2020 6:24 PM IST

Elvy Coravan poses for a portrait as she works to clear volcanic ash from the eruption of the Taal volcano, from the roof of her house in Buso Buso on January 19, 2020. - Residents of Buso Buso are allowed past police and military checkpoints for certain hours each morning to check on their homes and make repairs, before returning to evacuation centres in the surrounding areas. The small fishing village is one of the closest and hardest hit villages in the vicinity of the volcano. (Photo | AFP)World
‘Living near Taal like having gun pointed at you’: Philippines to...

As tens of thousands of evacuees from villages near the volcano remain in emergency shelters, officials discuss...

20 Jan 2020 8:10 AM IST

Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like virus are being treated, in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province on January 18, 2020. (Photo | AFP)World
Indian school teacher first foreigner to contract SARS-like...

Preeti Maheshwari, who works at an international school in Shenzhen, has been admitted in hospital after she fell...

19 Jan 2020 5:13 PM IST

Refugees and migrants burn garbage bins and chant slogans as they demonstate outside Moria camp, following the stabbing death of an 20-year-old man from Yemen in the Greek island of Lesbos, Friday, Jan, 17, 2020. (Photo | AFP)World
More than 80 soldiers killed in Yemen missile, drone attack

This follows months of relative calm in the war between Iran-backed Huthis and Yemen’s government, backed by a...

19 Jan 2020 4:06 PM IST

A woman arriving at Los Angeles International Airport wears a mask on the first day of health screenings of travellers from Wuhan, China for coronavirus on January 18, 2020. Coronavirus is a new type of virus similar in the same classification as SARS and MERS that has health officials concerned. (Photo | AFP)World
China reports 17 new cases in viral pneumonia outbreak

Nineteen of a total 62 diagnosed have been discharged, while two elderly men have died from the illness. Eight are in...

19 Jan 2020 1:24 PM IST

Riot police use a water cannon against anti-government demonstrators at a road leading to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon om Saturday. AP photoWest Asia
Lebanon unrest: Riots in Beirut leaves 150 injured

Thick white smoke covered the downtown Beirut area near Parliament as police and protesters engaged in confrontations

19 Jan 2020 12:07 PM IST

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Obese ISIS cleric, Jabba the Jihadi, arrested in Mosul

Abu Abdul Bari was known for provocative speeches against the security forces and was an important leader of ISIS gangs

19 Jan 2020 12:03 PM IST

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, right, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at president house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Saturday. AP photoWorld
Facebook sorry for Jinping name gaffe

The error came to light on the second day of a visit by the president to the Southeast Asian country

19 Jan 2020 11:37 AM IST

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in Ottawa, Canada. The conference dealt with the downing of Ukraine flight 752. AFP photoWest Asia
Hand over downed Ukrainian jet-'s black boxes to France: Trudeau to...

Iran doesn-'t have the technical expertise and mostly the equipment necessary to be able to analyse these damaged black...

18 Jan 2020 5:50 PM IST

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Japan nuclear reactor restart over volcano, earthquake risks

All nuclear power stations were shut down after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident following a catastrophic tsunami,...

18 Jan 2020 5:38 PM IST

‘Hundreds’ likely affected by Chinese virus: researchersWorld
‘Hundreds’ likely affected by Chinese virus: researchers

The virus has caused alarm because of its link to SARS, which killed nearly 650 people in mainland China and Hong Kong...

18 Jan 2020 11:43 AM IST

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to worshippers prior to deliver his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran. AP photoWest Asia
Trump, a clown who will push a poisonous dagger into backs of...

Iran-'s supreme leader said Western countries, saying they are too weak to “bring Iranians to their knees.”

17 Jan 2020 5:41 PM IST

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