At least 11 people have been killed in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region on Friday, according to the state’s authorities.The storm caused torrential rains and helicopter searches are underway…
Some 1,500 villages were still without electricity in India’s western state of Gujarat, officials said on Saturday, as coastal areas recovered from the impact of this week’s cyclone Biparjoy.That was down from initial outages in more than 4,600 village…
All 120 people onboard a ferry that caught fire at sea in central Philippines on Sunday have been rescued, the coast guard said.The M/V Esperanza Star, which was carrying 65 passengers and 55 officers and crew members, caught fire while sailing from Si…
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Saturday denounced as abhorrent the terrorist attack on a school in western Uganda where dozens of people were killed on injured.Reaffirming its firm stance against all forms of violence and terrorism, t…
The US dollar on Sunday dropped by 0.10 percent to KD 0.306 and the Euro rose 1.03 percent to KD 0.335, compared with Thursday’s rates.The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) said in its daily bulletin that the British sterling pound rose by 1.34 percent to K…