The former Health Minister of the Netherlands warned a month before he stepped down from his role that Europe is “not currently self-sufficient” when it comes to health products. To replenish the supplies and make sure Dutch patients are not left without
The Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group based in Burma’s Rakhine state, has seized Paletwa, a township bordering India and Bangladesh. The Arakan Army declared the Paletwa region a “Military Council-free area,” signaling the end of the ruling military government’s administrative control.
Negotiations between the two nations, which have been taking place during Christmas, will continue into the New Year. Prime Minister Mr Sunak and India’s premier Narendra Modi, below, are said to be keen to get the deal wrapped up by April. The
From a huge storm in India which has killed nine people to the rescue operation after the eruption of a volcano in Indonesia, here are today’s biggest stories from around the world. Severe cyclonic storm hits Southern India As a severe cyclonic
Four students have been killed and a further 60 injured in a stampede at an open-air music concert in India. The tragedy at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) in Kochi, Kerala unfolded as concertgoers ran to an indoor stairwell
Rescuers drilled deeper into the rubble of a collapsed road tunnel in northern India on Friday to fix wide pipes for 40 workers trapped underground for a sixth day to crawl to their freedom. Drilling with a new machine started on Thursday
At least 37 people are dead and 18 others are injured after a bus slid off a highway and plunged into a gorge in northern India on Wednesday. The bus was traveling in the mountainous Dodo district of the Jammu division when
Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India — and for Hindus in particular. It is celebrated across faiths by more than a billion people in the world’s most populous nation and the diaspora. Over five days, people take
Vivien Leigh, whose birth name was Vivian Mary Hartley, was born on this day in history on Nov. 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India. Her father was an English stockbroker and her mother was Irish, according to Biography.com. The British actress achieved film
A judge laid into a Just Stop Oil protester who requested her trial be delayed so that she could travel to India. Lydia Gribbin, 28, appeared in court yesterday after being charged for storming a West End production of Les Miserables. Ms