Washington: US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday asking for an end of U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s war in Yemen, a move that is likely to invite a veto from the White House. The vote was 247 to 175, largely falling along party lines. It approves the resolution seeking to […]
Moscow: The body of an Israeli soldier missing since the 1982 Lebanon War has been found by the Russian and Syrian armies, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu visited Putin in Moscow five days before he is to seek a fifth term in office in a difficult […]
Aden: At least three women were killed Wednesday when a projectile landed on a residential area in the Red Sea coast city of Hodeidah, local residents said. “A projectile landed on Rabsah neighborhood in the southern parts of Hodeidah province, killing three women and injuring other civilians,” one of the residents based in Hodeidah told Xinhua […]
Moscow: More than 60 people died in the north of Burkina Faso from Sunday to Tuesday as a result of terror attacks and intercommunal clashes, the country’s minister of territorial administration, Simeon Sawadogo, said on Thursday. He was referring to attacks and clashes that took place from Sunday to Tuesday in the Soum province’s Arbinda […]
Christchurch: The man accused of carrying out the Christchurch mosque terror attacks last month will face 50 murder charges when he appears in court this week, New Zealand police said Thursday. Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant was previously charged with one murder as a holding measure, but police said all the deaths and injuries in the March […]
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei: Brunei is introducing strict new Islamic laws that make sex between men an offence punishable by stoning to death. According to a BBN News report, the new measures, that came into force on Wednesday, also cover a range of other crimes including punishment for theft by amputation. The move has sparked […]
Kabul: The US special envoy for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad visited Kabul on Monday and exchanged views with Afghan leaders, local media reported on Tuesday. As part of his multination trip to facilitate intra-Afghan peace talks, Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Monday and immediately started meeting Afghan officials, the newspaper Daily Outlook Afghanistan […]
Lima: Seventeen people were confirmed dead after a double-deck bus caught fire Sunday night in Lima, Peru’s public prosecutor’s office said Monday. “The team of prosecutors and six forensic doctors finished the work of retrieving the bodies of the 17 victims from the interprovincial bus that burned in Fiori, in San Martin de Porres (north of […]
Beijing: China on Monday claimed that “positive progress” has been made to resolve the issue of designating Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN and accused the US of scuttling its efforts by taking the matter directly to the Security Council. China last week defended its repeated attempts to block the […]
At least 25 people have been killed as a massive storm hit several places in Nepal, the media reported. Besides, around 400 people have also been injured in the storm that hit the Himalayan country’s southern district of Bara and adjoining Parsa on Sunday evening, The Himalayan Times reported. According to the National Emergency Operation […]
