GAZA, June 9: A Palestinian was on life support in a Gaza hospital on Friday, June 8 after being struck in the face by a tear-gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier.

Trump threatens to escalate trade war on eve of a G7 summit

Published On: June 8, 2018 04:45 PM NPT By: Agencies

Donald Trump has threatened to escalate a global trade war on the EU and Canada, hours before he meets their leaders at the G7 summit in Quebec.

With a North Country native at its core, a book to be released this fall will argue that then-President Lyndon Johnson ordered the Israeli Defense Forces to attack and sink, with no survivors, the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 in an effort to promote regime change in Egypt.

Guatemala volcano rescues suspended as death toll hits 109

Published On: June 8, 2018 06:48 AM NPT By: Reuters

GUATEMALA, June 8: The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano was temporarily suspended on Thursday due to dangerous conditions for rescue workers, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to 109, authorities said.

Putin signs US counter sanctions legislation

Published On: June 7, 2018 01:18 PM NPT By: Prajwal Aryal

KATHMANDU June 7:  On June 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill on counter measures against the US and its allies.

18 killed, over 90 wounded in Iraq explosion

Published On: June 7, 2018 12:57 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU June7: At least 18 people were killed while over 90 others sustained injuries in a huge blast in Iraq's Sadr City district near a Shiite mosque on Wednesday, Iraqi media report

Around 46 migrants die as boat capsizes off Yemeni Coast

Published On: June 7, 2018 12:43 PM NPT By: Agencies

GENEVA, June 7: At least 46 migrants died and 16 others went missing as a boat capsized off the Yemeni coast in the Gulf of Aden, the UN Migration Agency (IOM) said in a statement on Wednesday.

Seven mine workers missing after accident in northern Mexico

Published On: June 7, 2018 09:36 AM NPT By: Reuters

MEXICO CITY, June 7: Rescuers were searching on Wednesday for seven workers who went missing in at a gold and silver mine in northern Mexico after a dam filled with liquid waste collapsed, authorities said.

WASHINGTON, June 7: He hectored Mexico’s leader over border wall funding. Lobbed statistics at the Canadian leader without checking his facts. Cajoled the British prime minister to crack down on protesters. Had a tête-à-tête with Russia’s head of state on a whim. Bonded with France’s prime minister over military parades.

The US carried out war crimes in its four-month-long siege of the Syrian city of Raqqa last year, according to evidence gathered by Amnesty International and released in a report by the human rights group on Tuesday.