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Two weeks after New Zealand’s general election the outcome remained unclear today as the counting of postal and overseas votes failed to give any party a clear majority, leaving maverick MP Winston Peters as kingmaker. Official results released after so-called special votes were added showed no single party had the 61 seats needed to govern in the 120-seat parliament. The ...

Pakistan has raked up the Kashmir issue again at the UN with its envoy Maleeha Lodhi accusing India of spreading terrorism in the Valley, drawing a sharp reaction from India which described her diatribe as a “lonely voice from the wilderness”. Pakistan’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Lodhi, during a debate of the General Assembly, also alleged that ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Liquor baron turned politician Vijay Mallya was arrested in London today before being released on bail for the second time this year, in a case of money laundering filed by Indian authorities through UK’s state prosecutor. He slipped out of the country in March 2016, amid attempts by a group of banks to recover more than Rs. 9,000 crore loaned ...

At least 20 people were killed and 100 others injured at a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, the BBC reported on Monday. Multiple people are being treated for bullet wounds at a nearby hospital. Las Vegas police confirmed that one suspect has been neutralised. They advised people to avoid the area near Mandalay Bay Casino. ...

More than 144,000 people have fled from a rumbling volcano on popular tourist island Bali, but officials Saturday urged evacuees who live outside the immediate danger zone to return home. Mount Agung, 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the tourist hub of Kuta, has been shaking since August, causing fears it could erupt for the first time since 1963 and triggering ...

The UN has drawn up a contingency plan to feed up to 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar after some 480,000 fled to Bangladesh over the past month and arrivals continue. A senior official from the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) told AFP they were now prepared to provide massive food and other emergency aid if the influx continues in ...

Bodies of 45 Hindus have been discovered in three mass graves in the Myanmar’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine state, the officials said blaming Muslim insurgents for the killings. Rakhine state has been in a turmoil since August 25 after Rohingya militants launched deadly attacks on police posts. Border Guard Police Maj. Zayar Nyein told Associated Press that two of the graves, ...

Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico with a one-two punch of high winds and driving rain before beginning its deliberate march toward the Dominican Republic. Early Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm had regained “major hurricane status,” upgrading it to Category 3. The center said at 2 a.m. that Maria’s maximum sustained winds had risen to almost 115 miles ...

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon (local time), killing at least 138 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped. Scores of buildings collapsed into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU China has opened a highway in Tibet to the Nepal border, which is startegically important and could be used for civilian and defence purposes in future. The 40.4-kilometre highway in Tibet between Xigaze airport and Xigaze city centre officially opened to the public  with a short section linking the national highway to the Nepal border. It will ...