KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 13 laborers were killed and several others injured in a landmine explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near Afghanistan’s border, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in the restive North Waziristan tribal district, where a van carrying over a dozen laborers hit a landmine in ...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel started an indefinite hunger strike, a rights organization said on Thursday. Nearly 1,000 detainees from all prisons in Israel staged a hunger strike starting at 7 p.m. local time “to protest the aggression of the prison administration,” the director of the Palest...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) — At least 36 Nigerian military personnel were killed in attacks by bandits earlier this week and a helicopter crash, authorities said Thursday. The casualties include three officers and 22 soldiers killed in an ambush Monday in the northern state of Niger, said Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, the director of defense media […]...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces on Thursday killed a Palestinian and shot a health worker during a raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The West Bank has seen surge in violence since early last year, with repeated Israeli army raids and violence by Israeli settlers [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 10 people, including two crew members, were killed when an aircraft crashed in Malaysia on Thursday, police said. The plane crashed in Elmina area in the capital Shah Alam of Selangor state, police told the state-run Bernama news agency. Eight people were onboard the aircraft. The other two were the […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The death toll from armed clashes in the Libyan capital of Tripoli that erupted late on Monday has risen to 55, officials have said. The Emergency Medicine and Support Center said 146 people were also injured in the fighting between the Special Deterrence Force affiliated with the Presidential Council and the […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has said that it is dismayed by reports that Niger’s military administration plans to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason.” “We are incredibly dismayed by reports that President Bazoum’s unjust detention has gone even a step further,” State Department deputy spokesm...
ANKARA (AA) – The death toll from heavy rains and floods in India’s Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh has risen to 55, a state official said. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, the state’s chief minister, said 55 people have died as the heavy rainfall lashed the state in the last few days. “Rescue and restoration operation is […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Thousands of furious protesters chanting anti-government slogans marched in Bangladesh on Monday hours after a powerful jailed Islamist opposition leader died of a heart attack aged 83, officials said. Delawar Hossain Sayedee, vice president of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, died in a prison hospital early ...
Jakarta, Indonesia – AFP Six people, including four Australian tourists, who were reported missing off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island after their boat hit bad weather have been found alive, an official said Tuesday. Two boats carrying a total of 17 people left Nias island for the private island of Pinang on Sunday, [&...
