Jakarta (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Wednesday resumed the search for 154 people missing after a tsunami hit the Sunda Strait coasts as the country commemorates the anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that killed around 230,000…
Lhasa (IANS): A 5.8-magnitude quake hit Xigaze city in Tibet autonomous region early on Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). No casualties have been reported.
The epicentre was Xaitongmoin county as the quake struck…
Jakarta (IANS): At least 43 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials said.
The country's disaster management agency says two people are missing, and hundreds of…
Jakarta (IANS): At least 168 people have been killed and 745 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia's Sunda Strait, government officials said on Sunday.
There was no warning of the advancing wave that struck on Saturday around…
Washington (IANS) With funding for roughly a quarter of the US government, including appropriations for the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice expiring at midnight, a partial shutdown of the federal administration began on Saturday…
Beijing (IANS) Chinese State Councillor and Minister of National Defence Wei Fenghe has met Deputy Defence Minister of Russia and Chief of Main Directorate for Political-Military Affairs of the Russian Armed Forces Andrey Kartapolov in Beijing.
Washington (IANS): The Donald Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, the US media reported.
Reports, citing unnamed officials, said about 7,000 troops -- roughly half the remaining US military presence…
Washington (IANS): The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) without revealing any detailed timetable.
"We…
New York (IANS): Oil prices dived, as mounting anxieties over supply surplus cast a pall over investors across the board.
Oil prices plunged more than 7 percent to the lowest level since August 2017, as global supply continued piling up amid…
New Delhi (IANS): India and the Maldives on Monday agreed to deepen cooperation to maintain peace and security in the Indian Ocean region as New Delhi extended lines of credit worth $1.4 billion to the archipelago nation following delegation-level…