KUALA LUMPUR (AA) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake jolted the Indonesian state of North Sulawesi on August 14. The epicenter of the earthquake was 158 kilometers (nearly 98.2 miles) off the Laikit village of North Sulawesi at a depth of 30 kilometers (18.6 miles), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Meanwhile, the country’s M...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 13 people were killed and five injured in a collision between a passenger van and a truck in Pakistan on Saturday. The accident took place on a highway in Rahim Yar Khan, a district in Punjab province, some 590 kilometers (365 miles) from the provincial capital Lahore. The speeding […]
ANKARA (AA) – At least 41 people were killed and 14 others injured in a fire that erupted at a church west of Cairo early Sunday, the Coptic Church said. The fire broke out in Abu Sefein Church in the Greater Cairo district of Imbaba as a service was underway, the state news agency MENA […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – A joint Sudanese-Libyan patrol found 20 bodies and rescued eight irregular migrants in the desert between the two countries, according to an official statement issued on Friday. According to the Sudanese-Libyan Joint Forces statement, which was cited by the Sudanese official news agency, the bodies were found on the bord...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two soldiers were killed and another injured in Burkina Faso on Friday after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, according to media reports. The attack occurred between the Dori and Sebba areas in the Sahel region. “The vehicle was carrying a group of defense and security forces belonging to the ...
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was stabbed Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. The attacker was restrained. Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” is banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. The attack […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – Main Iraqi Shia rival blocs urged their respective supporters on Thursday to demonstrate on Friday in different parts of the country. A committee of the Iran-aligned Coordination Framework, headed by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, encouraged supporters to rally near the walls of Baghdad’s fortified Gree...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The death toll of Malian security forces in the Sunday terrorist attack has risen to 42, with the government announcing that it will launch thorough investigations into the well-coordinated attack in the southeastern Gao Region, which also injured 22 troops. Earlier, the government had announced that 17 soldiers were ki...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Three Indian soldiers and two freedom fighters were killed in a gunfight in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Two more soldiers were injured in the early morning shootout in the Rajouri district, according to the Indian military. The army’s 16 Corps said on Twitter that two freedom fighters [&hel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people, including a soldier, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday evening, an official said. The attack took place near a popular hotel close to the Hirshabele state presidency in the town of Jowhar. Roble Ahmed, spokesman for Hirshabele [&hel...
