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DEESA, India: People stand amid debris at a blast site in a fireworks factory in Gujarat state on April 1, 2025. - AFP

21 killed in India fireworks factory blast

AHMEDABAD: An explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in western India left 21 people dead and several others injured on Tuesday, officials said. The fiery blast sent chunks of rock, metal and body parts flying far from the factory complex in th...

KUWAIT: A jeweller arranges gold items at his shop in Kuwait City on March 14, 2025. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Asian, Mideast sellers flood jewelry market

MUMBAI: As gold prices jump to successive highs, jewelers across Asia and the Middle East are grappling with displays losing their sparkle as customers race to cash in their old jewelry and coins. If the rush to sell continues, it could ultimately l...

ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka: A divisional secretariat at the Mihintale village marks a tally sheet after counting monkeys as he conducts a census in Anuradhapura on March 15, 2025. — AFP

Sri Lanka counts wildlife in bid to protect crops

ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide census Saturday of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, in a bid to prepare countermeasures to protect crops, officials said. Some 40,000 local officials were deployed to coun...

SIBI, Pakistan: A paramilitary soldier stands guard at a railway station in this district of southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025. - AFP

Pak forces free 190 hostages, 50 killed

SIBI, Pakistan: Pakistan security sources on Wednesday said the military had freed 190 train passengers taken hostage by gunmen on the second day of a siege in the mountainous southwest. More than 450 passengers were on board when a separatist milit...

NEW YORK: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrives at his hotel in New York on June 23, 2024, as he prepares to undergo knee surgery. – AFP

Dalai Lama says his successor to be born outside China

NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan region he fled more than six decades ago. Tib...

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Kuwait Police arrest child molester, wife's killer in Eid

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KUWAIT:Officers monitor traffic camera feeds in this illustrative file photo. - KUNA

Tough new traffic law comes into force on April 22

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MANDALAY: Rescue workers stand on the top of the rubble at the site of an under-construction building collapse in Bangkok on April 1, 2025.—AFP

Woman saved in Myanmar capital after being trapped by earthquake for 91 hours

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Kuwait welcomes signing of 'Khujand Declaration'

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WASHINGTON: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate Chamber after delivering a record setting floor speech at the U.S. Capitol on April 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. - AFP

US senator smashes record with 25-hour anti-Trump speech