Donald Trump’s mug shot was released on Thursday evening after he was booked at an Atlanta jail on more than a dozen felony charges as part of a wide-ranging criminal case stemming from the former US president’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. An unsmiling Trump — inmate no. P01135809, according to مزید پڑھیں

North Korea launched what appeared to be a space rocket on Thursday, South Korea‘s military said, in what would be the North‘s second such attempt this year after a May launch crashed. The launch prompted an emergency warning in Japan just before 4 am local time (1900 GMT) over the J-alert broadcasting system, telling residents مزید پڑھیں

At least 21 students were deported from the United States in one day for attempting to enter the country with fake visas and counterfeit university admission letters. The deportees’ have also been banned from reentering the country for a period of five years. This has not only brought disgrace to the students but has also مزید پڑھیں

Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday in an operation it insists is safe but has generated a fierce backlash from China. The beginning of the discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of water into the Pacific over several decades is a big step in decommissioning the still مزید پڑھیں

Saudi Arabia and Iran are among six countries to join BRICS as new members next year, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced, on the final day of a summit of the group that considers itself a counterweight to Western powers. The group encompassing five major emerging economies – China, Brazil, South Africa, Russia and مزید پڑھیں

Russia’s most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said, two months to the day after he led an abortive mutiny against the army top brass. According to international media reports, a Telegram channel linked to Wagner, Grey Zone, مزید پڑھیں

Fierce storms closed schools on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia’s Makkah region, home to Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque, which was lashed by heavy rains and wind overnight, witnesses said. As pilgrims tried to circumambulate the Kaaba, the giant black cube towards which all Muslims pray, a bolt of lightning struck the iconic Fairmont Makkah مزید پڑھیں

China’s President Xi Jinping called for unity among his BRICS counterparts at a summit in South Africa on Wednesday as he pushed the case for expanding the grouping to face a global “period of turbulence and transformation”. Leaders of the bloc of leading developing nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are meeting in مزید پڑھیں

A railway bridge being built across a ravine in India’s northeastern Mizoram state has collapsed, killing at least 17 labourers working on the project, officials said, with many others reported missing. Video footage posted by Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Wednesday showed a metal frame that had toppled off towering columns into a wooded valley مزید پڑھیں

West African nations have rejected a call by Niger’s coup leaders for a three-year transition back to democracy, as the crisis-hit country’s neighbours weigh whether to take military action. General Abdourahamane Tiani has declared he will hold off a return to civilian rule after army officers toppled President Mohamed Bazoum last month. His announcement came مزید پڑھیں