MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – More than 1,200 Somali civilians were killed or injured due to explosive ordnance, including landmines, and improvised explosive devices in 2022, according to latest UN figures. “Whether measured in the number of casualties or the scope of economic impediment, the toll being paid by ordinary Somalis because of t...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday overturned the country’s electoral authority’s decision to postpone elections in a key province. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial had reserved the judgment on Monday after over a week-long hearing. It ordered t...
TORONTO, Canada (AA) – ISIS senior leader Khalid Ayyd Ahmad al-Jabouri was killed in an airstrike in Syria, US Central Command said Tuesday. CENTCOM said the ISIS leader was killed in northwestern Syria early Tuesday. There were no civilian casualties in the attack, it said. Al-Jabouri was responsible for attacks that ISIS carried out in...
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): Finland became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday in a historic shift that drew an angry warning of “countermeasures” from the Kremlin. Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine last year upended Europe’s security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbour Sweden — to drop decades...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian President Kais Saied appeared in a video posted Monday on his official Facebook page, dismissing “mad” reports over his health following almost two weeks with no public engagements. The North African country’s main opposition coalition had pressed the government earlier to explain Saied’s ...
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP): A fire ripped through the camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. Since 2015, Beijing has poured billions of dollars into Pakistan under an investment scheme known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Private firms h...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilised in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city’s oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the B...
Damascus, Syria (AFP): Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike Tuesday, state media reported, the fourth such attack on government-held areas of the war-torn country in less than a week. “At 00:15 (2115 GMT Monday) the Israeli enemy carried out an air strike… and the attack resulted in the death of two […]
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Sierra Leone has banned political street rallies, a tradition that has for decades characterised electoral campaigns, less than three months before the presidential election, the government said Monday. Election periods are “no time for dancing and merriment”, but rather “times for deep reflectio...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon is ready to hold municipal elections next month, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has announced. “I am bound by law to hold elections, and I am convinced that these elections must be held on time,” Mawlawi told a press conference as quoted by the National News Agency on Monday. He […]...
