An “alarmingly high” level of arsenic contamination was found in groundwater in Pakistan, putting up to 60 million people at risk of serious diseases including cancer, reveals a US study. The study, published in the American journal Science Advance on Wednesday, examined groundwater samples collected from nearly 1,200 sites from across the country, reports Xinhua […]
The Islamic State (IS) has threatened to carry out more attacks in Spain if the country does not withdraw from an international coalition battling the terror group in the Middle East The extremists made the announcement in a video entitled “The Conquest of Barcelona” released on Wednesday. It featured two men speaking in Spanish, reports […]
Thousands of people were evacuated on Tuesday in parts of south China in preparation for the arrival of Typhoon Hato, set to make landfall on Wednesday. The eye of Hato, the 13th typhoon to hit China this year, was recorded 415 kilometre southeast of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province as of 9 p.m. local time on Tuesday, […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday welcomed “some level of restraint” showed by North Korea with its nuclear programme, seeing a possible pathway to a future talk between Washington and Pyongyang. “We have had no missile launches or provocative acts from the part of North Korea since the unanimous adoption of the UN […]
As thousands of people are fleeing Tal Afar, a city west of Mosul, since a military campaign began on Sunday to retake the city from the Islamic State (IS), UN agencies of health and migration are providing emergency aids to meet their needs. Tal Afar, some 70 km west of the newly-liberated city of Mosul, […]
Thousands of protesters descended on downtown Phoenix on Tuesday ahead of US President Donald Trump’s campaign-style rally to oppose his assessment in which he blamed “both sides” for Charlottesville’s racial violence that occurred earlier this month. Several marches in opposition to Trump were mapped out, with all scheduled to converge on the Phoenix Convention Center, […]
Spanish police on Monday said they have killed eight suspected terrorists, including the driver of the van, and detained four of the 12-member terror cell behind Catalan region’s twin attacks. According to Xinhua, Catalan police confirmed that it has shot and killed Younes Abouyaaqoub, the man confirmed as the author of Thursday’s terror attack which […]
A once-in-a-century total solar eclipse is spanning the continental US on Monday, creating a 70-mile-wide (112-kilometre-wide) path of totality stretching from Oregon in the Pacific Northwest to South Carolina on the East Coast. The rare astronomical event, known as Great American Eclipse, arrived at about 1:16 p.m. EDT at Salem, Oregon, with the sun’s disk […]
An Israeli court on Monday extended the arrest of a senior Muslim leader Sheikh Raed Salah until Thursday when he is expected to face charges of incitement. The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court, south of Tel Aviv, said Salah will stay under custody until the State Prosecutor’s Office submit the indictment, Xinhua news agency reported. Salah’s […]
In possibly the sternest warning to Pakistan by an American leader, US President Donald Trump has put Islamabad on notice, declaring it “has much to lose by continuing to harbour terrorists” and hinting at a direct action within that nation. Outlining a new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia before at a meeting of 2,000 […]