MADRID, Aug 27 (Reuters) The Bank of Spain’s website has been hit since Sunday by a cyber attack which has temporarily disrupted access to the site, a spokesman for the central bank said on Monday. The spokesman said that the attack has not had any effect on the bank’s services or its communications with the […]
PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) France said on Monday it had killed a top official from Islamic State’s affiliate in West Africa in an operation in Mali that also killed another member of the group and two civilians. The defence ministry, in a statement, named him as Mohamed Ag Almouner and said he was one of […]
Yangon, Aug 27 (UNI) A court in Myanmar has delayed its ruling on two Reuters journalists accused of violating a State Secrets Act while investigating violence against Rohingyas, said a BBC News report on Monday. An official said the verdict would now be given on 3 September, owing to the judge’s poor health. Wa Lone […]
KABUL: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani rejected on Sunday resignations tendered a day earlier by three senior security officials, the government said. The ministers of defence and interior, as well as a senior security chief, sent their resignations to the president’s palace on Saturday, soon after Afghanistan’s national security adviser also resigned. Government spokesman Haroon Chakansuri […]
Jalalabad: At least two people died on Saturday in a bomb explosion outside an election commission office in Jalalabad area of Afghanistan. The suicide bombing took place near a tent where a group of people were protesting in support of a candidate disqualified from parliamentary elections due in October, media reports said. Media reports quoted Najib Kamawal, […]
The United States will cut more than USD 200 million in aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, reports said. Reports quoted senior State Department official saying hat the decision, made “at the direction of the president”, came after a review of aid programs to the Palestinian territories. “The funding previously […]
TREUENBRIETZEN: Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin on Friday and a pall of acrid smoke hung over the city. Attempts to fight the fire were complicated by the presence of the ammunition thought to date from […]
London: Bad news for those who enjoy what they think is a healthy glass of wine a day, says a BBC News report. A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect […]
New Delhi: All eyes will be on the much-expected and the inaugural Indo-US 2+2 dialogue on September 6 in Delhi when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will host their counterparts US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Defence Secretary James Matis respectively. However, the US has chosen to stick […]
Kabul,(UNI): More than 100 people are reported to have been kidnapped after Taliban militants launched an ambush on three buses in northern Afghanistan, a BBC News report said on Monday. Security forces sent to the area near Kunduz are said to be involved in fierce clashes with the militants. It comes a day after the […]
