Many feared trapped in major fire in India's financial capital

Published On: July 22, 2019 06:15 PM NPT By: Reuters

MUMBAI, July 22:  A major fire broke out on Monday in a nine-storey government building in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, with several people feared trapped, fire officials said.

Manchester concert bombing suspect kept in custody

Published On: July 22, 2019 05:12 PM NPT By: Associated Press

LONDON, July 22: The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has been kept in custody at a bail hearing.

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Amano dies aged 72

Published On: July 22, 2019 04:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

VIENNA, July 22: U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano has died, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, the day he had been expected to announce he would step down early because of an illness that had visibly weakened him over the past year.

Japan officials hunt for reasons behind fire that killed 34

Published On: July 22, 2019 03:35 PM NPT By: Reuters

KYOTO, July 22:  Japanese officials groped on Monday for answers to why a blaze tore through an animation company, amid reports that smoke spread so fast a majority of victims who tried to flee through a rooftop door could not open it in time to escape.

BEIRUT, July 22: An airstrike struck a busy market in a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria on Monday, killing at least 16 people, according to opposition activists and a war monitoring group.

HONG KONG, July 22: Hong Kong police on Monday defended their actions and the lack of arrests after opposition lawmakers said police had failed to protect a train full of anti-government protesters from a triad gangster attack on Sunday.

BEIJING, July 22: China said on Monday it will impose anti-dumping duties on some stainless steel products imported from the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia.

TOKYO, July 22: Japan wants to make every effort to reduce tension between the United States and Iran before responding to an expected U.S. request to send its navy to safeguard strategic waters off Iran, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday.

SRIHARIKOTA, July 22: India is ready to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem.

NEW YORK, July 22: He seemed almost like he was out of Central Casting — tall and patrician, with a cultivated above-the-fray presence. And in fact, former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau inspired some television casting of his own, as the model for the avuncular character of prosecutor Adam Schiff, played by actor Steven Hill on the long-running television series, “Law and Order.”