An avalanche killed four skiers and injured four others later on Saturday in a popular recreation area, making it one of the deadliest avalanches in Utah history, authorities said. The avalanche occurred in a backcountry region of Millcreek Canyon. Eight skiers were in the area of Wilson Basin; when they triggered the avalanche, Sgt. Melody […]
A man who was arrested and sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests as a teen in Saudi Arabia has had his sentence commuted. Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoun, and Abdullah al-Zaher, youth from Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority, were also detained separately on charges stemming from their participation in anti-government Shiite protests over discrimination […]
At least seven people were killed and more than 100 people are missing after a glacier burst; triggering flash floods in India’s northern Uttarakhand state on Sunday. The flood was caused; when a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off; in the Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand on Sunday morning. The […]
Thousands of people in Myanmar participated in protest marches over the weekend, decrying the military coup. tensions escalated, police confronted one of the rallies and reportedly fired shots in the air The incident, which reportedly happened in the border town of Myawaddy on Sunday, shows the fragility of the situation. The mass protests – the […]
Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer told a local news channel. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian detained in December 2016 after arriving in Cairo from Doha on vacation, was held on […]
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is the second submitted for full approval in Brazil after AstraZeneca applied on January 29 for the vaccine it created with Oxford University. That vaccine is being manufactured in Brazil in partnership with the federally funded Fiocruz biomedical center. Brazil has already approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Chinese-developed SinoVac shots […]
President Joe Biden has said that Donald Trump should not be given any access to intelligence briefings because of his “erratic behaviour”. According to the US tradition, former presidents could be allowed on the briefing of the nation’s security issues. But when he was asked that would the former president would receive the same courtesy in […]
The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said. The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook; which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, […]
Russia has announced the expulsion of diplomats from Sweden, Germany, and Poland, accusing them of taking part in illegal protests last month against the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. The foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday that Moscow considered the actions of the diplomats unacceptable and that it expects diplomats from the […]
President Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. will no longer support offensive military operations led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, reversing a policy started by the Obama administration and continued by the Trump administration despite widespread accusations of Saudi war crimes. U.S. President Joe Biden made the announcement during a wide-ranging foreign policy speech; that declared diplomacy […]
