Cairo, April 6 (IANS) At least four extremists were killed and 36 others arrested Saturday in a security raid on their hideouts in major cities in Egypt’s North Sinai province, Xinuha reported citing a security source. “The police-military raid in Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid also resulted in busting a weapon warehouse that has two machine […]
Beijing, April 6 (IANS) At least 25 people were injured and 21,000 relocated after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck a county in southwest China early Saturday, authorities said. The quake hit Yongshan county in Yunnan province with the epicentre 13 km deep, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, Xinhua reported. According to the county government’s information […]
Islamabad, April 6 (IANS) Pakistan has decided to free 13 more Taliban prisoners as part of an ongoing peace initiative, a leading Pakistani daily reported Saturday. Emerging from a meeting of the government and Taliban negotiating committees, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan urged the the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership to reciprocate to the government’s action […]
Baghdad, April 6 (IANS) At least 41 people were killed and 35 others wounded in violent incidents across Iraq Saturday, mainly in the western province of Anbar, police said. Fifteen Iraqi soldiers were killed in an explosion at a booby-trapped house in the Garma area near Fallujah in Anbar province, some 50 km west of the […]
Islamabad, April 6 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed and 30 others injured when a truck plunged into a ravine in Pakistan’s northern Chakwal district Saturday, Geo News reported. Police said the incident took place in Modren Killa area when a truck carrying the victim fell into the ravine. The injured people have been shifted […]
New York, April 6 (IANS) The Indian consulate in New York dismissed as “ridiculous” suggestions that there was any connection between the detention of a US police official in New Delhi and the earlier arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade here. In a statement, the consulate said the New York Police Department official was detained in […]
Kabul, April 5 (IANS) Polling time in the Afghan presidential and provincial council elections Saturday has been extended by an hour to help facilitate people to cast their votes, the country’s top election official said. “The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has decided to extend the voting time for one hour until 5 p.m. because many people […]
Yangon, April 5 (IANS) The Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups Saturday resumed part of their ceasefire talks here to coordinate for jointly drafting a single text document for the nationwide ceasefire proposal before formal peace talks continue. The meeting was attended by 21 ethnic armed groups — 16 from the National Cease-fire Coordination Team (NCCT) […]
Athens, April 5 (IANS) A two-day informal summit of European Union (EU) foreign ministers in Athens ended Saturday with a re-affirmation of a common stance on the resolution of the crisis in Ukraine and a call for de-escalation of tension. “Ukraine was on top of our agenda. We remained united in our determination to act together […]
Dhaka, April 5 (IANS) A Pakistani national with fake currency with a face value of 10 million Bangladeshi takas (around $129,080) was arrested at the Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, an official said Saturday. Asimillah Khan, 40, landed at the airport on an Emirates flight Friday, bdnews24.com cited customs department assistant commissioner Nazma Zabin as saying. […]