At least 47 people were killed and over 70 wounded Thursday in separate attacks witnessed in different parts of Iraq, including three deadly bombings in capital city of Baghdad, police said. In the worst incident in Baghdad’s Sadr City, a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded at a popular market, leaving at least 32 people dead and 56 […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that she can work with Britain to reform the European Union but it will not be “a piece of cake”, BBC reported. Merkel, following a Downing Street meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron, said both the nations could bring in laws to curb benefit tourism, as part of […]
The Tbilisi City Court Thursday declared Georgia’s former prime minister Vano Merabishvili guilty of exceeding official power and of violently breaking up opposition protesters in May of 2011, Xinhua reported. On Feb 17, the same court sentenced Merabishvili to five-and-a-half years in prison for embezzlement of public funds to foot the bills of his then […]
US President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House March 17, the White House said Thursday. The president looks forward to reviewing with Abbas the progress in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Xinhua quoted White House spokesperson Jay Carney as saying in a statement. “They will also discuss our continuing effort to […]
At least 35 people were killed and over 50 wounded as Iraq witnessed unabated incidents of violence Thursday. Eleven people were killed and 35 injured in a deadly bombing attack in Baghdad in the evening, police said, hours after it said 24 people died and 16 wounded in separate violent attacks in different parts of […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it will send a fact-finding team to Ukraine in response to its request for support after the political upheaval. “The Ukrainian authorities informed me today of their request for support from the IMF,” Xinhua quoted IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde as saying in a statement. “We are ready […]
European Parliament urged EU Thursday to help Ukraine with urgent financial aid while enforcing targeted sanctions against “those responsible for violence” there, Xinhua reported. “To help Ukraine tackle its worsening economic and balance of payments difficulties, the EU and international financial organisations should offer both a short-term financial rescue package, and a longer term one, […]
At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured when an explosion occurred at a restaurant located adjacent to a petrol station in Qatar’s capital city of Doha Thursday morning, officials said. All 12 reported killed were Asians or Arabs, said the head of Qatar’s police force Maj Gen Saad al-Khulaifi, adding some of the […]
Six Indian nationals have been arrested at Biratnagar in eastern Nepal and arms and ammunition seized from them, Nepal Police said Thursday. Muralidhar Das, Bikas Kumar Paswan, Nitesh Kumar Yadav, Pramod Kumar Tanti, Phantus Tanti and Subodh Paswan of Bhagalpur district in India’s Bihar state, who entered Nepal in a Tata Indica car, were arrested […]
Four police officers were among five people killed in a truck explosion in Mokopane in northern South Africa early Thursday morning, authorities said. A grocery truck collided with a truck carrying cartridges and soon after the police arrived at the scene of the collision, the cartridges went off, killing the four officers and the truck […]