Bloomberg India said it evacuated 104 people, mostly Afghans, by a special chartered flight from Kabul that landed in New Delhi. The evacuated people included those from the Afghan minority community, who carried holy scriptures of Sikhism and some ancient Hindu manuscripts, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. India has so far evacuated 669 people from Afghanistan. ...

Bloomberg The US South and Midwest were slammed by tornadoes, with the death toll in Kentucky likely to be over 50 while a partial roof collapse at an Amazon.com warehouse in Illinois resulted in an unspecified number of fatalities. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency, activated the National Guard, and asked President Joe Biden for an emergency ...

Bloomberg New Caledonia, an archipelago in the strategic waters of the Pacific, is holding a referendum on independence from France on December 12. The poll is meant to end a three-decade process of de-colonisation and should in theory, allow Emmanuel Macron to turn the page before the April 2022 presidential election. But a lot could go wrong. France sees itself ...