Dushanbe, Tajikistan – AFP At least 21 people have died following torrential rains in Tajikistan, authorities said Wednesday, the latest natural disaster to hit the mountainous Central Asian country. The deaths were reported in three towns near the capital Dushanbe, after heavy rains on Sunday and Monday triggered flooding, landslides an...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is close to carrying out a military campaign against Lebanon, the country’s permanent delegate to the United Nations has warned. Israel is “the nearest to launching military action in Lebanon since the 2006 [war],” Gilad Erdan told Army Radio, citing what he called Hezbollah escalation along the border. The ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Ground penetrating radar has unearthed 79 potential children’s graves and those that may be of 14 infants at the former Beauval Indian Residential School in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, English River First Nation said Tuesday. “This is not a final number. It breaks my heart that there are likely mor...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Pakistani porter, who fell from a narrow trail while attempting to ascend K-2 late last month, has cleared the Norwegian climber who was accused of walking past the dying porter. “The inquiry has not fixed the responsibility of the porter’s death ...
Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan remained in prison on Tuesday despite his graft conviction being suspended, his lawyers said, claiming that a “manipulation of justice” was keeping him behind bars. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said the Islamabad High Court overturned a l...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani police authorities have accused the “enemy” country’s intelligence agency of being involved in recent violence against Christians and the burning of churches in the northeastern Punjab province. Addressing a news conference in the provincial capital Lahore, Punjab police chief Usman An...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Five Palestinians have been injured by Israeli fire while 19 others detained in Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, according to state media and a local NGO. Israeli soldiers stationed at Dutan military checkpoint, southwest of Jenin, opened fire at four Palestinians near the town of Yabad, the state news [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Three civilians were killed, including two children, in artillery shelling by Houthi rebels in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province on Saturday, according to local sources. Twelve people – eight women and four children – were also injured in the attack that targeted Al-Ghousha village, west of Taiz, the sources said. There was no [...
Her son had criticized trial of an opposition politician belonging to the Jamaat e Islami by the controversial International Crimes Tribunal DHAKA, Bangladesh – A 58-year-old woman, Anisha Siddika, was arrested in Bangladesh following a Facebook post by her son. According to Amnesty International, Siddika was taken into custody on Augus...
Bandung, Indonesia – AFP A days-long fire at a landfill in Indonesia’s most populous province has been declared an emergency by local authorities as thick and putrid smoke from the blaze chokes nearby residents, officials said Friday. The fire at the Sarimukti landfill in Indonesia’s West Java province — which serves th...
