ISTANBUL (AA) – An explosion in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Khost killed at least three people on Monday, an official said. Khalid Zadran, spokesman for Kabul police, said the explosion occurred in a hotel near the Spin Mosque in Khost city. “Several Waziristani refugees and Khost citizens were killed. Three dead and sev...
RAMALLAH (AA) – A group of Jewish settlers raided a Palestinian school in the West Bank, according to local media on Sunday. Jewish settlers raided the Ra’s et-Tin school in the eastern Ramallah area where the Bedouin communities live, according to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency. They broke the windows of the school, it adde...
Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP: A little-known senator from Pakistan’s least-populous province was named caretaker prime minister Saturday to see the country through to an election due in months. Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, from Balochistan province, takes on a country that has been wracked by political and economic instability for months, wit...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The death toll from monsoon rains and subsequent flooding in southeast Bangladesh has risen to 48, with some people still missing, while authorities have said that floodwaters have begun to recede. According to official sources, the floods had affected at least 1.2 million people in four southeastern districts, Cox̵...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistan’s Supreme Court has struck down a law concerning court judgements, terming it unconstitutional. The decision on the Supreme Court (Review of Judgements and Orders) Act 2023 was reserved by a three-member bench on June 19. The law provided a right to appeal under Article 184(3), which gives the court power to assume [&h...
A U.S. Supreme Court judge has raised the issue of misconduct for enjoying 38 vacations organized by billionaires. Justice Clarence Thomas also allegedly received lavish gifts from wealthy patrons, including flights on private jets, cruises on yachts and expensive sports tickets. In an investigative report, ProPublica, an American nonprofit ne...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) joined the army and civil administration as rescue operations in Bangladesh’s southeastern districts continued for the second day, with approximately 700,000 people still stranded in floodwaters and in desperate need of shelter, drinking water and food. So far, the authorities hav...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday he would send a note to the president on Wednesday requesting him to dissolve the National Assembly. Speaking at a ceremony in capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Sharif said: “After completing our (government’s) term tomorrow, I will write and send to the p...
LONDON (AA): An Islamic funeral was conducted Tuesday in Ireland for Sinead O’Connor who died last month in London. Umar Al-Qadri, chief imam at the Islamic Center of Ireland, led the service. “Gifted with a voice that moved a generation of young people, she could reduce listeners to tears by her otherworldly resonance,” he s...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger’s military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but reported no headway a day after an ultimatum from the West African bloc ECOWAS was ignored. Victoria Nuland, a veteran envoy and acting deputy secretary of state, said she met for more than two hours […]
