An aircraft with eight people on board was heading from the Russian settlement of Pyramida to Barentsburg on Norway’s Spitsbergen (Svalbard) archipelago when it disappeared from radars on Thursday. Norway’s rescue center reported on Sunday that the wreckage of the helicopter was found near Barentsburg on the ocean floor at ...
The deputy governor of Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar has been kidnapped in neighboring Pakistan, officials said Sunday, an incident which could further strain relations between Islamabad and Kabul. Muhammad Nabi Ahmadi arrived in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday for an appointment with a doctor, senior police ...
