Section: Nepal
Repatriation flights continue
Kathmandu, April 8 Two repatriation flights were conducted today, evacuating more than 500 tourists stranded in Nepal during the lockdown period. According to Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), a total of 534 tourists were evacuated today via Titan Airways and Qatar Airways. After a long wait, Titan Airways, a British charter airline, repatriated a total...
Ukraine battles forest fires near Chernobyl
MINSK, BELARUS: Ukrainian firefighters laboured into Sunday night trying to put out two forest blazes in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station, which was evacuated because of radioactive contamination after the 1986 explosion at the plant. Ukraine’s emergencies service said one of the fires, covering about five hectares (12...
Trump fires watchdog who handled Ukraine complaint
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community who handled the whistleblower complaint that triggered Trump’s impeachment. Trump informed the Senate intelligence committee Friday of his decision to fire Atkinson, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press....
Clashes, jeers and burning tires greet coronavirus evacuees in Ukraine
NOVI SANZHARY, UKRAINE: Residents of a central Ukrainian town clashed with police, burned tires and hurled projectiles at a convoy of buses carrying evacuees from China’s Hubei province, quarantined in case of the coronavirus, to a sanatorium on Thursday. Some protesters and police were lying wounded on the ground after the clashes. At...
Coronavirus to be big topic for G20 as China reports uptick in cases
Downward trend in Chinese cases “encouraging”: WHO chief Spike in South Korean infections linked to church Iran urges suspension of religious gatherings in holy city BEIJING: China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the rise in infections remained at its slowest pace since January, a downward trend which the World...
With impeachment over, critics see Trump ‘retribution tour’
WASHINGTON: In the week since his acquittal on impeachment charges, a fully emboldened President Donald Trump is demonstrating his determination to assert an iron grip on government, pushing his Justice Department to ease up on a longtime friend while using the levers of presidential powers to exact payback on real and perceived foes. Trump has...
Freed from impeachment drama, Trump to press ahead with re-election campaign
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump emerged confident and ready to press on with his re-election effort on Wednesday after the Democratic-led impeachment drive that he denounced as illegitimate crashed to a halt in the Republican-led Senate. Trump plans to speak about the issue at the White House on Thursday. A source close to the president...
Aging Iran airliner crash-lands on highway, injuring only 2
TEHRAN: An aging Iranian passenger airliner carrying 144 people crash-landed on a runway and skidded onto a major highway next to an airport Monday, the latest crash in the Islamic Republic as US sanctions bar it from parts or new aircraft. Authorities said two people suffered injuries in the hard landing of the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 flown by...
Democrats warn at impeachment trial that Trump will abuse his office again if not removed
WASHINGTON: Democratic lawmakers concluded their opening arguments in Republican President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate on Friday with a warning that he was a threat to democracy and would abuse his power again if he is not removed from office. On the third and final day of opening statements, Democrats tried to...
Bodies of Ukrainian victims of Iran plane crash returned home
KIEV: The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine on Sunday in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport. All 176 on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev were killed when the Boeing 737-800 was shot down on Jan. 8, at a...
