The final four boys and their soccer coach were successfully removed from a flooded cave in Thailand on Tuesday, capping a herculean international rescue effort that appeared bleak just days ago. The rescued was completed Tuesday morning, according to the Thai Navy SEALs. Officials confirmed they had restarted the rescue effort for the third day at 10 […]
CHIANG RAI Rescue workers in Thailand brought out on Monday the fifth boy from a group of 12 and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks in a flooded cave complex, a navy official said, hours after the rescue mission resumed. A Reuters witness near the Tham Luang cave in the northern province […]
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has said there has been “some good feedback” from experts helping to rescue the football team trapped in a Thai cave. The billionaire entrepreneur has sent engineers to help the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their football coach who have been stuck in a cave following a flash […]
MEXICO CITY: Two explosions at fireworks workshops outside Mexico City on Thursday killed at least 24 people, including rescue workers, and injured dozens more, officials said, in the latest deadly blast to hit a town known for its fireworks production. After a first blast in the municipality of Tultepec, firefighters, police and other rescue workers […]
Bank designates 60 branches as ‘systemically important’ The fraud-hit Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Wednesday said it had begun a credit restructuring exercise that will ensure that large accounts as well as lending operations are concentrated in a few specially designated branches. “To ensure better accountability and operations, the bank is shifting most of the […]
China has released a three-year plan to battle pollution and improve air quality, Chinese state media have reported. The plan will lay specific focus on clearing up the murky air that hangs over major urban centres like Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. The plan comes after years of efforts by the Chinese government to battle […]
The convoy of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was on Sunday stopped and attacked with stones in Lyari area of Karachi in Pakistan. According to Pakistan-based Dawn News, Bilawal’s convoy was attacked during an election campaign rally. The report said that convoy was attacked by a group of at least 100 people […]
Ottawa Canada hit back at the United States on Friday with retaliatory tariffs on American summertime essentials including Florida orange juice, ketchup and Kentucky bourbon in its opening salvo in a trade war with President Donald Trump. As temperatures and tensions increase, the measures targeting Can$16.6 billion (US$12.6 billion) in US steel, aluminum and consumer […]
Annapolis: Jarrod Warren Ramos, the 38-year-old man suspected of killing five people at the offices of a Maryland newspaper group on Thursday, had a long-running feud with Capital Gazette.Ramos had been attacking the Annapolis-based family of publications in the courts and on social media, it has now emerged. Law enforcement sources said the suspect behind […]
NAIROBI: Fifteen people died and dozens were injured when fire swept through a market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday, an official said. Emergency service St John Ambulance said the blaze broke out at 2:30 a.m. and spread to apartments and several shanties before being contained around 90 minutes later. […]