Nanjing: At least seven people were killed and five others injured in a factory explosion caused by a gas leak in east China’s Jiangsu province on Sunday morning. The explosion took place at 0712 hrs in an outdoor area of the premises of Handing Precision Metal Co at the Kunshan Comprehensive Tax-Free Zone, South China […]
Srinagar: Nine Afghan policemen were killed after Taliban fighters stormed their checkpoints and launched a follow-up ambush in the eastern Afghanistan city of Ghazni, officials said on Saturday. The assault began early on Friday when the Afghan Taliban attacked two adjacent checkpoints, Ghazni police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat told AFP. The Afghan Taliban then ambushed […]
Srinagar: A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday urged the United States to act cautiously on the issue of blacklisting Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and avoid bypassing the relevant committee of the UN Security Council, saying it would only complicate the issue. The comment came a day after the US bypassed the 1267 Sanctions […]
Kabul: Up to 12 police personnel have reportedly been killed in the southern Zabul and neighboring Helmand province on Thursday amid peace efforts to find negotiated end to Afghanistan’s protracted fighting. The militants, as a sign of mounting pressure on security forces targeted police checkpoints in Siory district of Zabul province early Thursday, leaving seven police […]
Srinagar: Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum will be called a mosque from now on, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “Hagia Sophia will no longer be called a museum. Its status will change. We will call it a mosque,” Erdogan said during a live televised programme, TRT World reported. Tourists who will come to visit mosques in […]
Aden: A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organisation, which supports the hospital, said in a statement that four of those killed on Tuesday morning were children and two adults are unaccounted for. The NGO, […]
Srinagar: About 1.85 million people have now been affected by Cyclone Idai and its aftermath in Mozambique alone, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Tuesday, as aid workers raced to fathom the scale of the disaster and determine what help is most urgently needed, Reuters reported. “Some will be in critical, life threatening situations. Some will […]
Srinagar: Workers building a mosque in southwestern France found a pig’s head and animal blood at the entrance to the site on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim places of worship over the past decade. Construction of the mosque in the small town of Bergerac — known for its fine Bordeaux […]
Gaza City: Hamas said it has reached an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel after a severe exchange of fire on Monday, only two weeks before Israeli elections. “Egyptian efforts succeeded with a ceasefire between the occupation and the resistance factions,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said. Israel has yet to comment on the claim. (Agencies)
Srinagar: Israeli forces and Hamas exchanged rocket fire on Monday night amid fears of a new conflict in Gaza. Israeli forces carried out strikes against what they called “Hamas terror targets” across the Gaza Strip, after an earlier rocket attack that destroyed a family home and wounded seven people in a neighbourhood north of Tel […]
