Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit record high: UN
KABUL: The number of Afghan civilians killed in the country’s long-running conflict hit a record high in the first six months of 2018, UN figures showed Sunday, with militant attacks and suicide bombs the leading causes of death. The toll of 1,692 fatalities was one percent more than a year earlier and the highest since […]
Imran Khan taunts Nawaz Sharif over his ‘friendship’ with Modi
Islamabad : Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has taunted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over his “friendship” with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused the two of creating the law and order situation in the country and tension at the border to manipulate the situation in favour of the rival PML-N. Sharif […]
UN Secretary-General backs Zeid’s call for Kashmir human rights investigation
UN:-UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s call for an international investigation into human rights situation in Kashmir saying that it represents the “voice of the UN”. He also defended at a news conference on Thursday his own report on children in armed conflict that referred to situations […]
US court orders Johnson & Johnson to pay USD 4.7 bn in talc cancer lawsuit
St Louis: A St Louis jury in the US on July 13 awarded nearly USD 4.7 billion in total damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer in the first case against the company that focused on asbestos in the powder. […]
Air strike in eastern Syria kills at least 28 people
Beirut: An air strike killed at least 28 people in an Islamic State-held area of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. The Syrian state news agency and the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper, in its online edition, said the US-led coalition carried out the air strike near […]
Afghan officials: Taliban kill at least 15 troops, 4 police
KABUL, — The Taliban struck Thursday in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz, leaving 15 soldiers dead there, and in western Farah province, where they killed four policemen, officials said. In Kunduz, Taliban fighters tried to overrun a military security post in the district of Dasht-e-Arch, using artillery shells, according to army spokesman Mohammad Hanif Rezaie, […]
Afghanistan: Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Jalalabad
Jalalabad: A suicide bomber blew himself up on Tuesday in the Afghan city of Jalalabad near a security forces vehicle. The attack left at least 10 people dead, government officials said. No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Inamullah Miakhel, a spokesman for the provincial health department in the eastern city, confirmed […]
World War II bomb defused at Volkswagen site in German city
BERLIN — A World War II bomb found on the premises of automaker Volkswagen in the German city of Wolfsburg has been defused after some 4,000 people were evacuated from the surrounding area. City authorities said on Twitter that the bomb was defused Sunday lunchtime. People within a 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) radius, an area that includes […]
Pakistan ranked at 22 on list of most powerful countries
islamabad:Pakistan has dropped two positions to number 22 in the list of most powerful countries in the world, leaving Singapore, Spain, and Brazil behind in a new global ranking. As per the list published by US News and World Report, an American media house publishing since 1933, has placed the South Asian country at the […]
At least 38 killed, 50 missing as torrential rain pounds Japan
TOKYO: At least 50 people were missing and four in critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes. Japan’s Meteorological Agency retained special weather warnings for three prefectures in the main island of Honshu, […]
