Bangkok, April 6 (IANS) Tens of thousands of people from across Thailand joined a pro-government rally in Bangkok Saturday to express their support for caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Bangkok Post reported. Shinawatra’s supporters gathered along Aksa Road in the capital’s Thawi Watthana district, where the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) intends to […]
Tehran, April 6 (IANS) A Pakistani fleet of warships docked in southern Iran is to hold a joint drill with the Iranian navy in the strategic strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian commander said Saturday. The flotilla arrived Saturday in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas where it will stay for four days, said Iranian […]
Cairo, April 6 (IANS) At least 23 people were killed and more than 30 others injured in overnight tribal clashes in upper Egypt’s Aswan province, official MENA news agency reported Saturday. The overnight gunfight erupted Friday evening and renewed early Saturday morning between two big tribes, Bani Helal Tribe (Halayla) and Nubian Daboudiya Tribe, in eastern […]
Sao Paulo, April 6 (IANS/EFE) Some 2,700 Brazilian troops seized control Saturday of the Mare slum complex, Rio de Janeiro’s last major drug-gang stronghold. The previously announced operation began at 5:00 a.m. when armored cars and tanks rolled into the main “favelas,” or shanty towns, that make up the complex, home to roughly 120,000 people. After […]
Amman, April 6 (IANS) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it will transfer $264 million to Jordan in April as part of a loan to the kingdom, the state-run Petra news agency reported Saturday. The amount is part of a $2.1 billion loan the IMF agreed to extend to Jordan to help it cope with an […]
Quito, April 6 (IANS/EFE) A powerful explosion in Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano kicked off an eruption lasting five minutes with emissions of pulverised incandescent rock and a column of ash that rose 10 km above the crater, the Geophysical Institute reported. The blast came at 6:10 p.m. Friday, and the pyroclastic flows of hot pulverised rock poured […]
Nairobi, April 6 (IANS) At least 13 people were killed and three others injured in a road accident early Saturday in eastern Kenya. Traffic police commandant Charlton Mureithi said the accident occurred when a minibus (matatu) plunged into a river on Machakos-Kitui road, Xinhua reported. “Thirteen people died while three others were injured in the road […]
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 […]