SILKYARA TUNNEL , India - Indian military engineers were preparing to dig by hand Monday to reach 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 16 days, a rescue operation hit by repeated setbacks. Soldiers plan to use a so-called "rat-hole mining" technique, digging by hand to clear the...
MOSCOW, Russia - Almost two million people in Russia and occupied Ukraine were left without power on Monday, after hurricane force winds and heavy rains cut electricity lines and caused widespread flooding. Huge waves crashed over beachside areas of Russia's Black Sea coast, video from social...
CRÉTEIL, France - A father in France on Sunday confessed to killing his three young daughters and turned himself in, said prosecutors and a police source. The man, 41, went to the police station in the northern coastal town of Dieppe "to report that he had killed his three children", the...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN SILKYARA TUNNEL , India– India's military brought in specialised equipment Sunday as efforts to free 41 trapped workers entered a third week, with digging ongoing in three directions after repeated setbacks to the operation. The Indian air force said Sunday that...
AFP/MANILE BULLETIN SEOUL, South Korea– South Korea's spy agency chief resigned Sunday, Yonhap news agency reported, as tensions soar over neighbouring North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programmes. President Yoon Suk Yeol accepted the resignation of National Intelligence Service...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN MOSCOW, Russia– Russia on Sunday put Meta Platforms spokesperson Andy Stone on a wanted list on unspecified charges as the US social media giant -- which owns Facebook -- is classed as "extremist" by Moscow. Russia has hugely cracked down on media and social media freedom...
Rescue personnel work at the collapsed under construction Silkyara tunnel in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state, on November 25, 2023. Indian rescuers began digging a vertical shaft on November 25 to free 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for two weeks, after...
BANGKOK, Thailand– Kittiya Thuengsaeng thought her 28-year-old boyfriend was among the almost 40 Thais killed in Hamas's deadly assault on Israel last month. But on Friday night Thai officials shocked her with news so good it seemed impossible. "I couldn't believe my eyes," she told...
KYIV, Ukraine– Ukraine said on Saturday it had downed 74 out of 75 Russian attack drones overnight, in what Kyiv said was the biggest drone attack since the start of the invasion. The Ukrainian army said Russia had launched a "record number" of Iranian-made Shahed drones, the majority...
SILKYARA TUNNEL , India - Just a few metres of rock and earth separate Indian rescue teams from 41 workers who have been trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks, officials said Friday, vowing to get all the men out safely. After a series of rapid advances, hopes that the...
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel was eagerly awaiting what one official called the "miracle" release Friday of women and children taken hostage by Palestinian militants during the deadliest attack in the country's history. But the authorities were also gearing up for the complex task of helping those...
MOSCOW, Russia - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West had a "dangerous" monopoly over artificial intelligence and Russia needed to rival "biased" Western chatbots with its own technology. The race to develop AI has heated up since the breakout launch of the ChatGPT generative...
