Abuja, Aug 25 (IANS) Nigerian troops will soon launch a massive military offensive to end insurgency in the northeast region of the West African country, Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah has said . Minimah disclosed this in the southeast city of Port Harcourt on a two-day visit to army formations and units Sunday, Xinhua […]
London, Aug 25 (IANS) Singer Cliff Richard, who “voluntarily” met the police, denies sex assault allegation against him. Richard’s property in Berkshire, South East England was searched by police last week in relation to the alleged sex offence involving a boy in 1985. He was not arrested or charged. The “Summer holiday” hitmaker was “voluntarily” interviewed […]
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) US Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain Sunday reiterated calls for the White House to do more to tackle what he says is a threat from the Islamic State (IS), the Sunni militant group wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria. “Unfortunately so far he (President Barack Obama) seems to be […]
Rome, Aug 25 (IANS) Three small artworks of the 15th century have been stolen from the picture gallery of the iconic Sforza Castle in Italy’s Milan, media reports said Sunday. The paintings belong to the Milan municipality and were found disappeared from the picture gallery by security guards Saturday, Xinhua reported. The artworks, depicting male faces […]
Paris, Aug 25 (IANS) A road race turned to tragedy in France Sunday when three people were killed by a racing car veering off course during practice. The accident occurred around 11 a.m., just before the start of a 1.5 km hill-climb rally from Tillac to Laas, 110 km west of Haute-Garonne department’s capital city of […]
Kabul, Aug 25 (IANS) Six foreign security personnel and an Afghan translator were injured in a suicide bombing on a military convoy in Afghanistan Sunday, an official said. “At around 3 p.m. Sunday, a militant rammed his car bomb into a convoy of foreign soldiers in Jalalabad city in eastern Nangarhar province. The blast wounded six […]
Kabul, Aug 24 (IANS) As many as 80 Taliban militants were killed and 47 others injured in military operations across Afghanistan, the country’s interior ministry Sunday. “Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) carried out cleanup operations in Kunar, Faryab, Kandahar, Wardak, Logar and Helmand province, killing 80 armed Taliban militants and wounding 47 others” since Saturday, Xinhua […]
Islamabad, Aug 24 (IANS) As many as 11 disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Members of National Assembly (MNA) have decided to form their own group after developing serious differences with the party leadership over the issue of resignations from parliament, media reported Sunday. Gulzar Khan, a PTI MNA from Peshawar, accused the party leadership of not consulting […]
Tokyo, Aug 23 (IANS) Little is known about the universe’s earliest stars but if we believe astronomers, they might have been hundreds of times more massive than the sun. Researchers have found evidence of the existence of the “monster stars” long thought to have populated the early universe. With hundreds of times the mass of the […]
Lahore, Aug 23 (IANS) Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Lahore Saturday for a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The two are expected to discuss the ongoing political stalemate induced by the protests by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) in Islamabad, Dawn online reported. Zardari, […]