KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Fierce fighting between two rival tribes in northwestern Pakistan over a piece of land claimed another two lives on Tuesday, raising the casualties to 11 over the past five days, officials and local media reported. The clashes involving heavy weapons, including rockets from both sides, have brought life to a standstill ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): A top commander of Myanmar’s Rohingya liberation group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) was killed in a gun battle with Bangladesh police on Monday in the southeast Cox’s Bazar coast. Law enforcement forces received information that about a hundred ARSA members were planning to attack Rohingya refugee c...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh is investigating the leakage of data related to more than 50 million of its citizens. The data was stolen from a government website. A cybersecurity specialist, Viktor Markopoulos, said he was able to access the data through a simple Google search. The data includes names, phone numbers, email address...
WASHINGTON – An Afghan interpreter working for the U.S. military was shot and killed on July 3 in Washington. Nasrat Ahmad Yar, 31, was working as a driver for the ride-sharing company Lyft when he was found shot to death in his car. Yar had come to the U.S. in 2021 to escape harassment after […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least eight people including six children were killed on Sunday when the modified auto-rickshaw they were travelling in struck a landmine, said local officials. The incident took place between the village of Jicibow and town of Bulaburde in Hirshabelle state. Ibrahim Abdi Ali, a security official, who spoke to Anado...
Toronto, Canada (AFP): A few hundred members of Canada’s Sikh community demonstrated outside the Indian consulate in Toronto on Saturday to protest the unsolved murder of one of their leaders last month in the Vancouver area. They accused the Indian government of being responsible for the gunning down of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president o...
ANKARA (AA): Israeli settlers carried out a series of assaults against Palestinians and their properties across the occupied West Bank late on Thursday night. According to the state news agency WAFA, a group of settlers, protected by the Israeli forces, threw rocks on Palestinian cars near the village of Ein al-Beida, eastern West Bank. A [&he...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA): One person was killed and a number of others were injured Friday in a shooting at a mosque in eastern Lebanon, with the suspected shooter now in custody, according to local media. “A shooting took place at a mosque in (the town of) Bar Elias,” the Lebanese National News Agency reported. “Army […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): At least five Rohingya refugees were killed in a gunfight at Ukhiya Rohingya refugee camp in the southeast coast of Bangladesh on Friday. Speaking to the media, commanding officer of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn), Md Amir Zafar, said firing between two Rohingya groups in the camp led to the death of […]
BRUSSELS (AA): EU lawmakers have urged Greece and the European Commission to launch an international and independent probe into last month’s deadly migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece. The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs held a debate dedicated to the tragedy believed to have claimed hun...
