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This frame grab from video footage by Thai PBS made available via AFPTV and taken on October 6, 2022 shows medical staff carrying a stretcher out of an ambulance in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, where a former policeman shot dead at least 30 people in a nursery. - A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on October 6, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family. (Photo: AFP)

Thai PM orders probe into -'horrifying-' nursery mass shooting

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Thursday ordered an urgent probe after a former police officer...

6 Oct 2022 6:06 PM IST

This handout from the Facebook page of Thailands Central Investigation Bureau shows a picture of former policeman Panya Khamrab, who is believed to have killed at least 30 people in a nursery in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu. (AFP)

Thailand mass shooting kills 34 including 22 children at day-care...

There were 22 kids among the victims of the suspected gunman, who police said had been discharged from the service for...

6 Oct 2022 2:34 PM IST

This photo provided on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, by the North Korean government shows a missile test from railway in North Pyongan Province, North Korea (Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation

SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbours said, escalating...

4 Oct 2022 8:45 AM IST

A policeman guards at the edge of Red Square in central Moscow on September 29, 2022, as the square is sealed prior to a ceremony of the incorporation of the new territories into Russia. (Photo: AFP)

Kremlin announces Ukraine annexation ceremony for Friday

MOSCOW: Russia will formally annex four regions of Ukraine its troops occupy at a grand ceremony in Moscow on Friday,...

29 Sept 2022 5:42 PM IST

Centre has put restrictions on the exports of wheat flour exports and other related products like maida, semolina, wholemeal atta and resultant atta. (Representational image: PTI)

India-'s wheat exports ban hits chewy chapati eating Punjabis in...

Singapore: India's ban on wheat exports since May has hit Singapore eateries serving soft chewy chapati, mostly for...

27 Sept 2022 11:56 AM IST

Japans Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at a regular news conference in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 262, 2022. The top government spokesman announced an additional ban on exports of chemical weapons-related goods to Russia. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan bans export of chemical weapons goods to Russia

Japan-'s government on Monday banned the export of materials that may be used for chemical weapons to 21 Russian...

26 Sept 2022 12:54 PM IST

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Explosion kills 3 people in Afghan capital: Taliban official

ISLAMABAD: An explosion in Afghanistan's capital has killed at least three people and wounded 13 others, a Taliban...

21 Sept 2022 6:57 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)

Putin announces partial mobilisation of reservists

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced a "partial mobilisation" of some 300,000 reservists...

21 Sept 2022 4:48 PM IST

Mahsa Amini, who was detained last Tuesday after Irans so-called morality police found fault with her headscarf. (Photo: Twitter)

Protesters tear-gassed at rally over custodial death of woman held for...

TEHRAN: Iranian police fired tear gas to disperse a protest in the western, mainly Kurdish city of Sanandaj, where...

19 Sept 2022 4:03 PM IST

Sali Hafiz streamed a live video of her raid, in which she could be heard yelling at employees to release a sum of money while entrances to the bank were sealed. (Photo: Twitter)

Wave of Lebanon bank -'heists-' to seize back frozen savings

GHAZIYEH: A man held up a Lebanese bank to withdraw his frozen savings Friday, the latest in a string of...

16 Sept 2022 4:43 PM IST

Ukraine said on Friday it had counted 450 graves at just one burial site near Izyum, which was seized back by Ukrainian forces. (Photo: Twitter

UN wants to send team to probe mass grave in Ukraine-'s Izyum

GENEVA: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' office said on Friday it wanted to send a team to Izyum to verify...

16 Sept 2022 4:17 PM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose during their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders summit in Samarkand on Thursday. (Photo: AFP)

Xi, Putin meet in Uzbekistan as Ukraine war dominates

SAMARKAND: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for talks on boosting ties between their...

15 Sept 2022 8:17 PM IST