KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least six people, including four para-military troops, were killed when suspected militants attacked a gas field in northwestern Pakistan, police said on Tuesday. A group of heavily armed militants stormed the gas field in Hangu district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which borders Afghanistan, late on M...
NEW YORK (AA): Turkish House in New York hosting Türkiye’s diplomatic missions was attacked in the early hours of Monday. The assailant smashed the windows of the building at 3.14 a.m. local time, Turkish Consul General in New York Reyhan Ozgur told the media. Ozgur said that no one was hurt but 12 windows and […]
ANKARA (AA): Normalcy is gradually returning to India’s violence-hit northeastern state of Manipur amid a shortage of medicine and daily-use items, according to local politicians. At least 70 people have been killed and 231 others have been injured in the ethnic violence since May 3. Thousands have been displaced with 1,700 houses burned...
Najaf, Iraq (AFP): Funerals were held Tuesday in Iraq for 78 people killed by the Islamic State group in 2014 and uncovered in a mass grave. DNA testing was used to identify the remains of hundreds of people slain by IS after their discovery in 2017 at the grave site on the outskirts of Mosul, […]
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s northeastern state of Manipur is reeling from ethnic violence which has affected thousands of people. Sixty people have died in the unrest, while 231 people have been injured and around 1,700 houses burnt. In addition, 20,000 people have been taken to safe places, while work on shifting another 10,000 people to [&...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Thousands of people continue to remain displaced as tense calm prevails in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur following deadly ethnic violence that left over 50 people dead last week. The violence followed a Manipur High Court ruling on April 19 that directed the state government to submit recommendations for the [&helli...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry late on Sunday confirmed a cyberattack on its information website but denied reports about the leak of documents and data. Nasser Kanani, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the ministry’s information website was hacked, but “necessary measures” were taken immediately to rest...
Amritsar, India (AFP): A second blast in 36 hours rocked the area around the Sikh holy site of the Golden Temple in India’s Amritsar city on Monday, police said. Authorities said that there were no casualties or damage reported in the incident, with police investigating the possible cause. The late Saturday night blast, which police [&he...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. In the first UK case of its kind, judge Jeremy Johnson handed Ike Ekweremadu, 60, the prison sentence for...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian house in the West Bank, the latest attack on Palestinian properties, according to a local official. “The entire house was destroyed in the fire,” Ghassan Daghlas, who is in charge of monitoring settlement building in the northern West Bank, told journalists. He said no [&hel...
