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By Jatindra Dash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Five more […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japan and South Korea have agreed to quickly resolve disputes over past military encounters that stand in the way of closer security cooperation, Japan’s defence minister said on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore. Japan’s defence minister, Yasukazu Hamada, held talks with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup, as part of the conference. “We discussed pending issues,” Hamada told reporters on Sunday after the […]

By Jatindra Dash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Five more […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japan and South Korea have agreed to quickly resolve disputes over past military encounters that stand in the way of closer security cooperation, Japan’s defence minister said on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore. Japan’s defence minister, Hirokazu Hamada, held talks with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup, as part of the conference. “We discussed pending issues,” Hamada told reporters on Sunday after the […]

By Jatindra Dash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. Five more […]

(Reuters) – Despite a recent easing of combat in Bakhmut, clashes around the obliterated city in eastern Ukraine continue with Moscow suffering significant losses, Kyiv’s armed forces said on Sunday. Ukraine’s top military command said in its daily report on Sunday that Russian forced had carried out two unsuccessful operations around Bakhmut and launched a number of air strikes and artillery shelling on nearby villages. The head of Russia’s mercenary […]

(Reuters) – Despite a recent easing of combat in Bakhmut, clashes around the obliterated city in eastern Ukraine continue with Moscow suffering significant losses, Kyiv’s armed forces said on Sunday. Ukraine’s top military command said in its daily report on Sunday that Russian forced had carried out two unsuccessful operations around Bakhmut and launched a number of air strikes and artillery shelling on nearby villages. The head of Russia’s mercenary […]

(Reuters) – UBS is considering delaying its quarterly results at least until the end of August, as the Swiss banking giant deals with complexities over its takeover of Credit Suisse, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The bank is scheduled to report its April-June results on July 25. A notice on the bank’s website says the anticipated date may change. “Publication date may change depending on the timing of the […]

(Reuters) – UBS is considering delaying its quarterly results at least until the end of August, as the Swiss banking giant deals with complexities over its takeover of Credit Suisse, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The bank is scheduled to report its April-June results on July 25. A notice on the bank’s website says the anticipated date may change. “Publication date may change depending on the timing of the […]