BUENOS AIRES: A total of 16 people died as a result of a bus crash in Venezuela, local media reported. The bus was heading from the city of San Cristobal for the city of Maracaibo when its tire burst, which resulted in the loss of the driver’s control over the vehicle and the latter’s overturn. Some […]
Kabul: Six civilians were killed as a roadside bomb struck a car in Dand district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Tuesday, a police officer in the province Jamal Nasir Barikzai said. “A bomb planted by militants on a road in Dand district struck a car today morning, killing six people including two women and two […]
BAMAKO: Nearly 100 people were killed in a gruesome overnight attack on a village in central Mali, in the latest violence to strike the fragile region, officials said on Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the massacre, targeting a village inhabited by the Dogon community, bore the hallmarks of tit-for-tat ethnic attacks […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Tehran will cooperate with the European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal in order to save it. “We had frank and serious talks with (visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko) Maas… Tehran will cooperate with EU signatories of the deal to save it,” Zarif said, Sputnik reported. Zarif added that “whoever starts a war with us […]
Kabul: At least 14 militants were killed while three others sustained injuries as fighting aircraft pounded Taliban hideouts in parts of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, an army statement here on Monday said. The statement said “the sorties targeted Taliban hideouts in Charchino district and Qala-e-Naw area outside provincial capital Tirin Kot over the past 24 hours, […]
Almaty: Kazakhstan on Sunday elected the hand-picked successor of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev with 70 per cent of the vote, exit polls showed, as police arrested hundreds of opposition protesters. The victory of career diplomat Kassym Jomart-Tokayev was never in doubt after he received the blessing of powerful Nazarbayev, who had led the Central Asian nation […]
FUKUOKA: The world’s top financial policymakers admitted on Sunday that trade tensions had worsened and posed a risk for the global economy, after a G20 meeting that laid bare differences between the United States and other nations. Following 30 hours of wrangling in what one official described as a “tense” atmosphere, G20 finance minister and […]
Washington: Turkey has been given a deadline of the end of July to choose between buying US fighter jets and Russian anti-aircraft missile systems. Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan set out the ultimatum in a letter to his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, according to a BBC News report. Turkey, he said, could not have […]
FUKUOKA: Over 700 journalists from all over the world will cover the high-level meetings of finance ministers and central bank governors from the G20 scheduled to take place on Saturday in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, the event’s organisers have told Sputnik. The two-day weekend meeting at Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk hotel is one of the […]
Srinagar: Fierce clashes between Russia-backed government forces and rebels have killed more than 100 combatants in northwestern Syria in the past 24 hours, a war monitor said on Friday. The clashes on the edge of the militant-controlled Idlib region have killed at least 53 government loyalists along with 48 rebels since Thursday, the Britain-based Syrian […]
