TORONTO (AA): Members of the radical violent group Boko Haram have killed 11 farmers in an armed attack in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, the local media reported. Boko Haram raided Kawuri village in the Konduga Local Government Area and shot dead people who were working in a field, and wounded several others. Thousands of […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): The death toll from last week’s suicide bombing of a political rally in northwestern Pakistan has jumped to 56 as two more people, who were critically injured, lost the battle for their lives at a hospital, officials said on Tuesday. On Sunday, a suspected suicide bomber, who is believed to have acted […]
BEIRUT (AA): The death toll from clashes between two groups in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp rose to nine on Monday. The largest of 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the Ain al-Helweh camp located near Sidon city, has been witnessing clashes since Saturday, with six deaths recorded on Sunday, according to the state-run Nati...
Khar, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistan police on Monday combed through the bloody wreckage of a suicide blast that killed at least 44 people at a religious party’s political gathering on Sunday. Around 400 members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman group (JUI-F) — a key government coalition partner led by a religious cleric — ...
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP): At least 44 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded Sunday by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan, officials said. The blast targeted the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party — a government coalition partner led by an influential firebrand cleri...
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP): At least six people were killed Sunday in clashes in south Lebanon’s restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement and a source at the camp. The fighting between Fatah and Islamists in the camp, which erupted overnight, killed a Fatah military leader a...
GENEVA (AA): For the first time in 20 years, a global decrease in the number of human trafficking victims was seen due to COVID-19 restrictions, according to a report from UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Pandemic-related restrictions on movement and business operations may have at least temporarily reduced some forms of traffickin...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s parliament on Tuesday approved new anti-narcotics legislation, removing capital punishment for drug trafficking convicts. The maximum punishment for a convict of a drug-related crime will be life imprisonment, whereas the minimum will be a six-month jail term. “Anti-narcotics bill passed, removing capital pu...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA): Somali authorities arrested security officials, including a senior commander, after a suicide bomber on Monday targeted a military training facility in the country’s capital Mogadishu, an official said on Wednesday. The bomber blew himself up inside the Jaalle Siyad military training facility and killed over 30 people, inc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Authorities in Saudi Arabia seized more than six million narcotic pills concealed in sweets and nuts from a shipment coming from Oman and arrested a Saudi and a Syrian national on the charges of carrying them, local media reported on Saturday. More than six million Captagon tablets hidden in sweets, citrus, and […]
