Bamako, Mali (AFP): Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed and four injured in northern Mali on Monday by a highway bomb, the UN mission said on Twitter. “Two MINUSMA #peacekeepers were killed today, 17 October, when their vehicle hit an Improvised Explosive Device during a #mine search and detection patrol in #Tessalit, Kidal regio...
TEHRAN (AA) – Four more prisoners injured in clashes and a fire at Tehran’s high-security Evin Prison have died, bringing the death toll to eight, according to the country’s judiciary. The Iranian judiciary’s media center said the four inmates died at a hospital due to the “severity of their condition,” whil...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Five people were killed and nine others injured in tribal fighting in Sudan, according to the military on Sunday. A military statement said clashes erupted between the Arab Misseriya tribe and the ethnic Nuba tribe in the town of Lagawa in West Kordofan state. Several homes were set ablaze in the […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – At least four prisoners died and 61 others were injured in Saturday night’s clashes and fire at Tehran’s high-security Evin Prison, the country’s judiciary said on Sunday. The fatalities happened due to “inhalation of smoke” as a result of the fire, the statement noted, adding that the victims ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A mob of a dozen people killed on Saturday two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, which houses over a million refugees, police said. The deceased have been identified as Maulvi Md. Yunus and Anwar Hossain, both of them camp leaders locally known as majhi. According to the Armed Police [...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) –Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the US president’s statement about his country being one of the most dangerous is “strange,” and that he has discussed it with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. He said this while addressing a press conference in Karachi. President Joe Biden...
ANKARA (AA) – The number of workers who died in a blast at a coal mine in northern Türkiye has increased to 40, according to the Turkish interior minister. Suleyman Soylu said 11 wounded workers are under treatment in hospitals. “One of the injured has been discharged,” Soylu told reporters in the Amasra district of […]
Bamako, Mali (AFP): An explosion killed at least nine people on a bus in central Mali on Thursday, a region regularly rocked by militant violence, according to police and local sources. The bus was struck by a blast on the road between Bandiagara and Goundaka, in the Mopti area in the early afternoon, a security […]
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Qatar World Cup organisers have warned fans to brace for “congestion” in the first two weeks of the tournament when the peak number of supporters will be packing the Gulf state’s capital. Private cars will be banned from many streets and residents near some stadiums will need permits to get to their [&helli...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A major electricity outage struck several parts of southern Pakistan, including the financial capital Karachi on Thursday, after power was disrupted due to an “accidental fault” in the transmission system. “Due to an accidental fault in the country’s southern transmission system, several southern power ...
