At least nine people were killed and more than 60 others injured in Russian air strikes targeting major Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv, on Tuesday, according to media reports. Russia has continued to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and power supply networks, while Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russian oil facilities this year. The More
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says its aerospace force has targeted an airbase allegedly used in a US strike on a communications tower on Sirik Island, Iran. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) recently said American forces carried out several “defensive strikes” against Iranian military targets over the weekend, following the downing of a US More
American scientists have found in a new study that the oral drug daraxonrasib can nearly double the survival time of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, a result being described as one of the most promising developments in the treatment of the disease. The findings, published in the prestigious medical journal the New England Journal of More
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says there is an acute need for increased humanitarian assistance and support for more than four million Afghans living in neighbouring Iran. In a post on X, NRC Secretary General Jan Egeland said Afghan and Iranian children had been traumatised by the recent intense bombardment across Iran. He noted that More
At least 46 people have been killed and more than 70 others injured following an explosion at an explosives depot in Myanmar, media reports said, the blast occurred on Sunday in the Kaung Tat area of Shan State, near the Chinese border. Local news outlet The Irrawaddy reported that the victims included six children. More More
Five people were killed and one injured after a mine collapsed in Yunnan province in southwestern China on Sunday, a media report said. The incident occurred at around 4:30am on Sunday in Huize County, Yunnan province, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. According to the report, six people were pulled from the debris, but only More
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will travel to China on Monday and then visit India later in the week, a media report said on Sunday. The visits will focus on global issues, from the Strait of Hormuz and the Russia-Ukraine war to the recent Ebola outbreak, Reuters reported. It said Cooper will meet her Chinese More
The U.S. president has said that a large part of a possible agreement between Washington and Tehran has already been negotiated and only finalization remains. However, an Iranian official has said that “the U.S. president is betraying diplomacy for the third time.” According to Fars News Agency, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social More
A Toyota Corolla-type vehicle fell from the road into a river in Parun, the capital of Nuristan province, leaving four people missing in the water and the driver injured. According to a statement from the Nuristan media office, the incident happened last night in the Jangal Posta area of Parun, the provincial capital, when a More
At least 18 people were killed and 29 others injured when a vehicle carrying returning refugees overturned on the Kabul–Jalalabad highway in eastern Laghman province on Saturday morning. According to the Laghman provincial Media and Public Relations Office, the accident occurred at around 5:30 a.m. near the Sorkhkano area. Preliminary reports indicate that 18 people More
