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A California couple became stranded in Maui after a scammer impersonating a Southwest Airlines representative cancelled their flights and utilised the credits to book a different trip. The family suffered a financial loss of $3,400 (Rs 282,620) as a result of this fraud. Megan and Kevin Morgan, who had travelled to the island to celebrate […]

A high-level inquiry has been ordered by the caretaker Punjab government after a violent mob set fire to a number of churches and vandalised Christians’ homes on Wednesday. Around 100 people have been arrested, a first information reporter has been registered, and paramilitary Rangers have been called in to take control of the situation. The

A huge wildfire in northern Canada is moving closer the city of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, and evacuation of the city’s 20,000 residents has been ordered, the territorial government said. Canada is enduring its worst-ever wildfire season with more than 1,000 active fires burning across the country, including 230 in the Northwest

More than 60 migrants are feared to have lost their lives after a boat carrying them was found capsized near the Cape Verde peninsula of Senegal in West Africa. BBC reported that more than 38 people — including children — were rescued from the island of Sal in Cape Verde. Footage from the scene after

More than 3,000 tourists have been evacuated from a British holiday hotspot in France after ‘catastrophic’ wildfires ravaged homes and holiday campsites. The blazing wildfires have ripped through 500 hectares of land and seen thousands of terrified tourists flee for their lives from their holiday homes and campsites close to the Spanish border. The flames

At least 35 people have died in an explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia, according to local officials. Russia’s Health Ministry said 115 people were injured in the blast and subsequent fire, and 35 of them died, including three children. A total of 65 of those injured, including 16 children, remained in hospital

WASHINGTON: The US on Tuesday expressed its readiness to work with the caretaker government in Pakistan on issues of mutual interest, including the conduct of free and fair elections. “We look forward to working with the interim prime minister and his team as they prepare to hold elections,” the State Department principal deputy spokesperson said

An explosion ripped through a hotel in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others, police said. The blast occurred at a city hotel frequented by Afghan people and refugees from Pakistan’s former militant stronghold of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, said Mustaghfir Gurbaz, a police spokesperson in

The death of a Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee has sparked outrage among the masses with protesters taking to the streets chanting anti-government slogans. 83-year-old Sayedee, the vice president of Bangladesh’s opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, passed away in a prison hospital on Monday evening. The prominent leader’s demise comes over a decade after his conviction

The Afghan Taliban is marking the second anniversary of its return to power with a public holiday, celebrating the takeover of Kabul and the establishment of what it described as security across the country under an “Islamic system”. “On the second anniversary of the conquest of Kabul, we would like to congratulate the mujahid [holy