ISLAMABAD (AA) – A suicide bomber blew himself up during weekly Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 56 people and injuring over 190 others, authorities said. The suicide bomber was stopped by police at a mosque in Peshawar’s bustling Qissakhwani bazaar, but he forced his way into the mosque’s ...
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan claimed on Thursday that its security forces had foiled an Indian submarine’s attempt to enter its waters on March 1. A spokesperson for the Pakistan Army accused India of deploying a submarine with ‘ulterior motives’ against Pakistan. According to Major General Babar Iftikhar, given the prevailing security env...
Asphalt roads in Afghanistan destroyed by explosions due to decades of conflict are being repaired by children. Afghan boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 15 fill pits created by mines and bombings with soil and gravel they collect from the roadside. These children work from sunup to sundown in difficult conditions to […]
Malaysia denied Tuesday it sanctioned a Russian ship’s port call. The sanctioned ship, Linda, scheduled to arrive at the Kuala Linggi port March 5, was denied a port call as the port’s operator did not want to violate any sanctions, the Malaysian Transportation Ministry said in a statement. “We will continue to monitor the related […]...
Hundreds of reports chronicling decades of attacks in Indian-held Kashmir have disappeared from local newspapers’ archives. It includes one of the most comprehensive NGO reports on decades of violence and killings in the disputed region, which was published by a respected rights organization.. The disappearance also includes the Greater Kashm...
A remote hospital in Bangladesh’s southwestern Satkhira district has earned international recognition as the world’s best building and as a model infrastructure resilient to the impacts of climate change. Located near the world’s largest mangrove forest (‘Sundarbans’) and the Bay of Bengal, the rainwater-harvesting health facility ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tehran supports efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Khamenei termed US policies the “root cause of the crisis” in the eastern European country. The leader made these remarks in a televised speech on March 1. “The solution to any crisis” lies in its “root cause”, he said, […]...
The Russian Ambassador to the UN has said that twelve members of the Russian diplomatic mission to the UN have been ordered to leave the United States by the end of March. Vassily Nebenzia told reporters at a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York that he had just learned of the expulsion. […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Taiwan on Monday said at least seven Chinese military jets crossed the Taiwan Strait to enter what the self-ruled island says is its airspace. The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said seven aircrafts belonging to People’s Liberation Army of China entered its air defense identification zone (ADIZ). Taiwan defines ADIZ as an area that...
Diversion of air traffic due to Russia-Ukraine partially responsible for more aircraft over Kazakhstan. NUR SULTAN (AA) – The number of aircraft passing through the airspace of the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan rose threefold over the last 24 hours, partially due to the Russia-Ukraine war, authorities said Monday. In a statement, th...
