Abuja, Jan 4 (IANS) Dozens of soldiers were killed in an attack suspected to have been committed by the militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s state of Borno, security sources said Sunday. The militants stormed the Multinational Joint Task Force base in the border town of Baga in the restive Borno state Saturday, Xinhua reported […]
London, Jan 4 (IANS) The social media is increasingly turning out to be a platform for terrorists to peddle their interests and a top militant commander has been using the business networking site LinkedIn to recruit fighters, media reported Sunday. According to a report in The Telegraph, Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesperson for the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militant group, […]
Jakarta, Jan 4 (IANS) International search teams Sunday found in the sea bodies of four more people who were on board the AirAsia jet which crashed Dec 28, taking the number of bodies recovered so far to 34. A Seahawk helicopter of the US navy delivered three bodies to the evacuation command post of the […]
Rome, Dec 31 (IANS) A total of 212 people rescued from the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic ferry landed at the port of Brindisi in southern Italy Tuesday night, Italy’s navy said Wednesday. The survivors disembarked from military vessel San Giorgio, which also carried the bodies of five victims of the blaze that broke out on the […]
Islamabad, Dec 31 (IANS) The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) in Pakistan has decided to commence a movement against the formation of military courts to try terror suspects in the country. The LHCBA, which announced its vehement opposition to the idea of military courts Wednesday, has also summoned a meeting of members of the […]
Jakarta, Dec 30 (IANS) AirAsia Tuesday confirmed that the debris spotted in the Java Sea, is from the missing flight QZ8501, even as three bodies confirmed to be those of passengers in the ill-fated plane were retrieved. “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to inform that The National Search and Rescue Agency Republic of Indonesia (Basarna) confirmed that […]
London, Dec 30 (IANS) A female healthcare worker, confirmed as having Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone Sunday night, has arrived at the Royal Free Hospital in west London for better treatment. The patient was admitted to hospital early Monday morning after feeling unwell and then was placed in isolation after returning to […]
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Two children and an adult were killed in a fire at a mobile home site in Surrey, southeastern England, police said Tuesday. Surrey Police said they received reports that a mobile home was on fire and attended to the site, off West Park Road in Newchapel, a small town in Surrey […]
Beijing, Dec 30 (IANS) Three people were sentenced to death and three others to death with two-year reprieves over a brawl that left 19 people dead and 15 missing two decades ago. The Guangyuan Intermediate People’s Court in Sichuan province issued verdicts about 41 people charged with intentional homicide and affray, Xinhua reported. Four were […]
Manila, Dec 30 (IANS) An AirAsia jet overshot the runway after landing at the Kalibo International Airport in the Philippines’ Aklan province Tuesday evening. The plane from Manila to Kalibo was carrying an undisclosed number of passengers, according to the initial report of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines at Kalibo (CAAP-Kalibo). “The passengers […]