International

At least 20 people have been killed after an earthquake struck Pakistan’s southern Balochistan province early on Thursday, officials have told the BBC. Authorities say the death toll may increase, and that many people were killed…

Seventy-six years after the end of World War Two, a former concentration camp guard has gone on trial for assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen near Berlin. Josef S is accused of complicity in the shooting…

India has begun delivering Covid-19 vaccines by commercial drones to speed up the vaccination drive, a senior government scientist told the BBC. Dr Samiran Panda said drones are being used to deliver doses in mountainous states…

SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 chief warned Tuesday “We’re not out of the woods” in the fight against the pandemic, even if many people thought it was nearly over. Maria van Kerkhove, head of the…

US: Former US President Donald Trump and real estate mogul dropped off from the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people for the first time in 25 years, the magazine reported. A Forbes report said that Trump has the same…

US: US President Joe Biden urged Republicans to “get out of the way” and let Democrats suspend the nation’s debt limit, hoping to keep the U.S. government from bumping dangerously close to a credit default as Senate Republican leader…

UK: British military personnel in fatigues began delivering fuel on Tuesday to ease an acute trucker shortage that triggered panic buying at the pumps, though Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied the world’s fifth largest economy was…

US: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday (US time) responded to claims that showed the social media giant in a negative light by saying that the accusations that it puts profit over user safety are “just not true”. A former…

AFGHANISTAN: A top British envoy held talks with senior Taliban officials in Kabul on Tuesday -- the first since foreign forces evacuated from Afghanistan -- as the country’s new masters seek a path out of international isolation.…

US: More oil from a massive offshore spill washed up on the southern California shore on Monday, with beaches closed and fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline could have…