Author: Disha Mishra

Ruling military of Myanmar has expanded a state’s emergency for next six months, reported by state media on Friday, a day prior of the forth-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the nation into chaos following a decade of tentative democracy. Myanmar has been blocked in a civil war started by the military’s overthrow of the elected civilian government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta schedule current year to hold an election, which critics have derided as a sham to keep the generals in power through proxies. “There are still more tasks to be done…

(Reuters) – Crews worked to pull the remains of the U.S.’ deadliest air disaster in two decades from Washington’s Potomac River on Friday, searching for the cause of an incident that has raised questions about air safety and a shortage of tower controllers. Fresh from recovering the so-called black boxes from the American Airlines plane that crashed after colliding with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening, killing 67, divers aim to salvage the aircraft and find additional components on Friday, Washington’s fire department said. Authorities have not pinpointed a reason for the collision, which happened as the regional…

(Reuters) – Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, will face probing queries from U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Thursday about his credentials and history of making false allegations about the agency he’s been tapped to lead. Members of the panel’s Democratic minority, directed by Senator Dick Durbin, are expected to grill the 44-year-old nominee about his claim that the FBI is filled with members of a “deep state” trying to block Trump’s policies and his call to shutter the bureau’s Washington headquarters. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, published ahead of his confirmation hearing,…

(Reuters) – More than 60 people were feared dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport. “At this point we do not believe there were any survivors,” District of Columbia fire chief John Donnelly said at a Thursday press conference. Donnelly said 28 bodies had been recovered from the river so far, in what was shaping up to be the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than a decade. “We will work to find all the bodies and…

(Reuters) – Ukraine stated on Wednesday it had struck a big Russian oil refinery in an overnight drone attack, and a Russian official stated an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on a nuclear power plant had been thwarted. The Ukrainian military stated the strike on the refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region had caused a large fire. Reuters was able to verify a video posted on social media that showed orange flames lighting up the night sky in the city of Kstovo, but could not confirm it was the refinery that was burning. Lukoil’s NORSI refinery, Russia’s fourth largest, is based…

(Reuters) – Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday as tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week festival. Reuters counted 39 bodies in the morgue of the local hospital, where bodies were still being brought in 12 hours after crowds surged towards the confluence of rivers where immersion is considered especially sacred. Two police sources said all 39 had been killed in the crush at the world’s biggest gathering of humanity. Three police…

(Forelines) – An Istanbul prosecutor launched another judicial disquisition into the megacity’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Monday for trying to impact the bar following he criticised legal examinations into opposition- run cosmopolises, according to Turkish media. News of the disquisition came twinkles after Imamoglu, who’s seen as a likely unborn presidential rival to Tayyip Erdogan, indicted Erdogan’s government of using the bar as a political tool to press the opposition. At a press conference, Imamoglu said the same expert substantiation had been appointed for several judicial examinations into him and other quarter cosmopolises in Istanbul run by the CHP main…

Russian air defences repelled a massive Ukrainian drone attack overnight, intercepting and destroying 121 drones targeting 13 regions, including Moscow, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday, making no mention of casualties or damage. The ministry said six drones had been destroyed over the Moscow region and one over the capital itself, while other drones had targeted other regions, including those that border Ukraine and Kursk, where Ukrainian troops hold a chunk of land despite Russian efforts to eject them. Twenty drones had also targeted the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, the ministry said, and channels on the Telegram messaging app…

Palestinians in northern Gaza prepared tent encampments for displaced families on Thursday, two days before they were expected to return to their home areas in accordance with the timeline of a ceasefire deal agreed between Israel and Hamas. On open ground surrounded by blown-out buildings, a group of men began putting up rows of white tents to receive families who are planning to return north on Saturday when the Palestinian militant group Hamas is due to release a second batch of hostages in return for dozens of Palestinians jailed by Israel. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians expected…

German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp and its Indian partner have cleared field trials for building six advanced conventional submarines for the Indian Navy, according to an exchange filing, emerging as the sole contender for the $5 billion project. Their potential rival, Spanish state-held shipbuilder Navantia, which partnered with India’s Larsen & Toubro (L&T) (LART.NS), could not meet the navy’s requirements in trials held in 2024 for testing key technologies, an Indian defence source said. The project is crucial to India’s effort to modernise its military and boost its naval capabilities in the face of China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean region.…