Two naval personnel were killed and three others injured when militants attacked their vehicle in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, the media reported. The incident took place on Monday evening when four militants on two motorbikes ambushed the vehicle in Gwadar district’s Jiwani city and opened fire, senior security officials told Dawn news. One victim died on […]
A Brazilian businessman said in an interview that President Michel Temer heads the country’s biggest and most dangerous criminal organisation. Temer “is the head of the criminal organisation that operates in the Chamber (of Deputies),” Brazil’s lower house of Congress, Joesley Batista, one of the owners of multinational meatpacking giant JBS, said in the interview […]
China on Friday expressed grave concern over the reported killing of two Chinese nationals kidnapped in Pakistan late last month. “We have taken note of relevant reports and we express our grave concern. We have been trying to rescue the two kidnapped hostages over the past days,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in response […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May is on course to lose her overall majority in the British general election, according to an exit poll released as soon as voting finished Thursday night. The poll, commissioned by Britain’s main broadcasters, showed May’s Conservatives would have 314 seats, losing 17 seats and the overall majority she had before […]
The Labour Party is ready to form a minority government if it is confirmed that no party has won an absolute majority in the June 8 elections in the UK, the Labour Foreign Secretary has said. “It looks tonight like we could form the next government,” Emily Thornberry told the BBC on Thursday night. According […]
With no parties showing majority in the June 8 UK General Election, the pound was down sharply as traders reacted to the early results, a media report said. The currency market had been expecting a clear victory for Theresa May’s Conservative Party, but the results so far, and the exit poll, have cast doubt on […]
UK opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign as exit polls from the snap general election has indicated that her ruling Conservative Party will lose their overall majority in Parliament. “The Prime Minister called this election because she wanted a mandate. The mandate she’s got is lost votes, […]
Millions of people across the UK are set to vote in the general election on Thursday where the ruling Conservatives are predicted to secure an overall majority despite an energetic bid for power by the opposition Labour Party, the media reported. Voting will begin at 7 a.m. (local time) in over 40,000 polling stations across […]
Over 195 people were injured in a protest here against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s bid to elect a Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution, the opposition alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) announced. According to the mayor of El Hatillo municipality, David Smolansky, “several atrocities were committed” on Wednesday by police officers who were deployed throughout […]
The assailants who carried out the two deadly attacks in Tehran resulting in the deaths of 13 people were Iranians who were recruited by the Islamic State (IS) terror group, a top security official said on Thursday. In an interview on state TV, Reza Seifollahi, deputy chief of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the […]