MEXICO CITY: A church roof collapsed during Sunday Mass in a northern Mexican city killing at least nine people and injuring 40, authorities said, as rescuers worked into the night, desperately looking for another 30 people believed to be trapped under the rubble. Working under floodlights, military personnel supported emergency services using rescue dogs and earth moving equipment to identify …

WASHINGTON: More than four million US military personnel and government workers resumed their work on Monday, as did Congress, after rare weekend votes in both chambers prevented a government shutdown. But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose last-minute move prevented the shutdown just three hours before it would have taken effect, now faces another move — a vote to oust him. …

ISFAHAN: Al Ittihad’s Asian Champions League match with Iran’s Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave the dressing room due to a statue of assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani being placed at the entrance to the pitch. The game was postponed by officials at the Naghsh-i Jahan Stadium in Isfahan, where around 60,000 fans …

BAGHDAD: Iraq rejects repeated Turkish air strikes or the presence of Turkish bases in its Kurdistan region and hopes to come to an agreement with Ankara to solve this problem, Iraqi President Abdul-Latif Rashid said in comments aired on Monday. Turkey said on Sunday it carried out air strikes in northern Iraq that destroyed 20 targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party …

India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Ties between New Delhi and Ottawa have become seriously strained over Canadian suspicion that Indian government agents had a role in the June murder in Canada of a Sikh separatist leader and Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who India had labelled a “terrorist”. Nijjar, 45, was the president …

Indian police raided the office of a news portal and the homes of journalists and writers linked to it on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of the media company, two government officials said. Laptops and mobile phones were taken away as part of the investigation into the media company NewsClick, the officials and some of …

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted New Delhi and parts of Nepal on Tuesday, India media reported. According to initial assessments by India’s National Center for Seismology, the depth of the earthquake was measured at 5km. The epicenter of the quake was located in Nepal. Meanwhile, the Solar System Geometry Survey said on X that the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.7 …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court was on Monday informed that there were over 50,000 proclaimed offenders (POs) in the province and 23,000 of them belonged to Larkana division alone. Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Riffat Mukhtar appeared before a two-judge bench, headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha, and filed a report about fugitives in the province. The number …

PESHAWAR: The federal government has decided about the re-verification of mobile phone SIM cards issued across the country. The exercise will start from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including its tribal districts on the Pak-Afghan border, official sources told Dawn. They said the decision about re-verification of SIMs was made during last week’s meeting of the apex committee here. Besides caretaker Chief Minister Mohammad …

PESHAWAR: Government schools in Kafoor Dheri area on the outskirts of the provincial capital have recorded massive dropout rates due to the frequent armed clashes between two groups over a land dispute during the last several months, teachers insist Schoolteachers along with education department officials and local elders on Monday met leaders of the warring parties as a jirga and …