Priyanka Chopra is shedding light on how she managed to keep stereotypical roles at bay when she first entered the Hollywood industry. While in conversation with UK’s Mirror Online, the Baywatch star spoke about how she managed to break free of that typecast and make a name for herself. “I demanded to play roles that were not specific boxes that I usually saw …

The Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday said he “strenuously favours” a political settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan even as the militants have launched a sweeping offensive across the nation. The announcement comes as representatives of the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents sat down for a new round of talks in Doha over the weekend, stirring hopes that the long-stalled …

The newcomer from  Never Have I Ever, Megan Suri, is touching on how she once made Mindy Kaling laugh on the sets of the show. The newest edition, who has joined season two as Aneesa says that it was an honest fangirl moment when she actually met creator, Kaling, on the show. “She couldn’t have been nicer,” Suri continues of Kaling, …

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Saturday denounced as “deeply disappointing” a federal judge’s decision curbing a programme that protects undocumented migrants brought to the country as children. In a statement from the White House, Biden said the Justice Department would appeal the ruling by Texas-based Judge Andrew Hanen, while adding that “only Congress can ensure a permanent solution by …

Haj pilgrims streamed out of the holy city of Mecca on Sunday, launching the rituals of the great pilgrimage which Saudi Arabia is holding in a scaled-down form for a second year to ward off the novel coronavirus. Saudi Arabia is allowing only 60,000 fully vaccinated citizens and residents of the Kingdom to take part, far from the vast crowds that descend …

WASHINGTON: There’s no support in the region for “the imposition by force” of a new government in Afghanistan, says a joint statement signed by the United States and its five Central Asian allies. In the document issued in Washington on Saturday, the United States, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan also said that “terrorists and third-party forces must never be …

VIENNA: Austria and the US said on Saturday they were investigating reports of US diplomats and other officials in Vienna falling sick with health problems similar to the so-called “Havana syndrome”. US senators in May said that the government was investigating an apparent increase in mysterious directed-energy attacks, amid new reports of potentially brain-damaging incidents inside the US. The still …

LONDON: British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was self-isolating — just as his government prepared to jettison most pandemic restrictions in England. Under his government’s rules, Javid is now required to self-isolate for 10 days unless a PCR test comes back negative and he no longer has symptoms. Any of his …

BERLIN: Rescue workers laboured to deal with damage laid bare by receding water on Saturday as the death toll from disastrous flooding in Western Europe rose above 160 and thoughts turned to the lengthy job of rebuilding communities devastated in minutes. The death toll in western Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate state, home to the badly hit Ahrweiler county, rose to 98. Another …

The death toll from flooding in Western Europe climbed above 180 on Sunday after rescue workers dug deeper into debris left by receding waters. Police put the toll from the hard-hit Ahrweiler area of western Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate state at 110 and said they feared the number may still rise. In neighbouring North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous, 45 people were confirmed dead, …