AMATRICE, Italy (AP) – Italian authorities are vowing to investigate whether negligence or fraud in adhering to building codes played a role in the high death toll in last week’s earthquake in Italy. They also called for efforts to ensure organized crime doesn’t infiltrate lucrative construction contracts to eventually rebuild …

BEIRUT (AP) – Rebels backed by Turkey made major gains Sunday in northern Syria, expelling Kurdish-led forces from towns and villages as part of a determined campaign by Ankara to push the militants east of the Euphrates River. At least 35 civilians were killed, according to activists. The dramatic escalation …

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – The image of the teacher’s body tied to a tree and riddled with bullets still haunts his son 14 years later. Communist militants allegedly dragged the Nepalese man from the class he was teaching and then killed him for refusing to give part of his salary …

New Delhi: Solidifying India’s stand, the United States has handed over evidence confirming that the Pathankot airbase attack, held in January this year, emanated from Pakistan. India has blamed January 2 attack on an Indian Air Force base at Pathankot on Pakistani terrorists. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is considering …

Srinagar: Life in Srinagar city on Monday started limping towards normalcy as authorities lifted curfew from entire Kashmir Valley except three police station areas after 51 days of continuous curfew following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. “Curfew has been lifted from Kashmir except from Pulwama town and …

New Delhi: Union tourism and culture minister Mahesh Sharma committed a faux pas after he suggested foreign tourists visiting India to avoid wearing skirts while roaming around Agra city in the evenings. Sharma, who was interacting with media persons on Sunday, had said, “A welcome card is being provided to …

Chela Singh (83) was a common man until Sunday morning. Then he became the face of the old-age pension scheme in the full-page newspaper advertisements detailing what the Punjab government has achieved in nine years to warrant another mandate. Good for Chela, but only one thing — he doesn’t get …

Harsa Bela sarpanch Surjit Singh stands on the Sutlej banks, looking at his eroded field and cursing the officials who overlooked complaints against illegal mining downstream and upstream. The Sutlej and its tributary, the Swan, scare villagers every monsoon. The mining mafia has bled the two rivers so much in …

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