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AFP/APP Mumbai, India: At least 25 people, including four tourists, were killed and several others injured when a massive fire ripped through a popular nightclub in Goa around midnight on Saturday, police said on Sunday. The blaze…

AFP/APP Los Angeles: A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Saturday shook a mountainous, sparsely populated area straddling the border of the US state of Alaska and Canada's Yukon territory, seismologists said. The temblor at 2041…

News Desk  The National Weather Service offices in Raleigh and Roanoke have issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Piedmont Triad, warning citizens of potentially hazardous travel conditions Friday night due to black ice and freezing…

AFP/APP Colombo: Heavy rains triggered fresh landslide warnings in Sri Lanka’s worst-affected central hills on Friday, as the death toll from last week’s Cyclone Ditwah neared 500. The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO),…

AFP/APP New York: Streaming giant Netflix said Friday it will buy film and television studio Warner Bros. Discovery for nearly $83 billion, marking the entertainment industry’s biggest consolidation deal of the decade. The acquisition…

AFP/APP New Delhi: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit on Friday, with defence and trade ties expected to take centre stage as New Delhi faces mounting US pressure to halt its…

AFP/APP Brussels, Belgium: The European Union on Thursday opened an antitrust investigation into Meta to determine whether the company’s rollout of new AI features on WhatsApp violates the bloc’s competition rules. The case marks the…

AFP/APP Sydney: Tech giant Meta said Thursday it has begun removing under-16 users in Australia from Instagram, Threads, and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first social media ban. Australia is requiring social media platforms —…

AFP/APP Washington: President Donald Trump said Wednesday he believes Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war despite inconclusive talks in Moscow, as US officials prepared for a follow-up meeting with Kyiv’s top negotiator.…

AFP/APP Sibolga, Indonesia: Forecasts of fresh rain on Thursday raised fears of more damage in flood-hit Indonesia and Sri Lanka, after earlier deluges killed more than 1,500 people in four countries. In Indonesia, the meteorological…