Supported by President-elect Donald Trump, Mike Johnson has secured the necessary votes for his re-election as the speaker of the US House of Representatives, media reports say. By securing 218 votes, Johnson won the house speakership for the second time in a close contest on Friday. Following his success, Johnson promised the new Congress would More
The Canadian government has urged its citizens not to travel to Afghanistan due to certain security concerns. “Avoid all travel to Afghanistan due to the volatile security situation, terrorist attacks, ongoing armed conflict, the risk of kidnapping, arbitrary arrest and detention, the high crime rate, and widespread violations of human rights by the de facto authorities,” More
Fresh Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave’s Hamas-controlled police force, his deputy and nine displaced people died, Gaza authorities said. The attack occurred in the Al-Mawasi district, which was designated as a humanitarian zone for civilians earlier More
The Salang highway was temporarily closed against all vehicles on Friday morning following heavy snow and storms, The Ministry of Public Works says. Mohammad Ashraf Haqshanas, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works, wrote on X: “The thickness of the snow varies in different areas. In the northern Salang, the amount of snow is 45 More
Afghan forces retaliated to mortar shelling from Pakistan, but the clash has come to an end, local sources in southeastern Khost province said on Friday. A local government source said Pakistani forces fired rockets into Dabgi area of Alisher district last night, prompting Afghan forces to retaliate. The midnight shelling from across the Durand Line More
Hojat Sediqi, the attorney general of Taybad, a city in Iran’s Khorasan Razavi province, says 30,820 illegal Afghan refugees were arrested at the shared borders before entering the country and were returned to Afghanistan last year. Pajhwok quoted Sediqi as saying that these people were sent back to Afghanistan through Dogharun after being arrested. “These More
The Palestinian Authority has temporarily suspended operations of Al Jazeera television channel, blaming the network for disseminating “inciting material’’. The culture, interior and communications ministers made the decision jointly because the channel broadcast material that was “deceiving and stirring strife, the Palestinian news agency WAFA said. The Palestinian Authority criticised Al Jazeera last week over More
A Tesla Cybertruck stuffed with firework mortars exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, says a media report. In the incident, which happened early on Wednesday, a suspect inside the vehicle was killed, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials said that a person died More
About 54 Afghan nationals have been released from jails in Pakistan, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Thursday. In a statement, MoRR said the 54 individuals were freed from different prisons after spending three to 20 days, following efforts by Afghan officials. “These Afghans had been detained for lack of legal residency More
Scores of people have been killed and wounded in a deadly attack in the US city of New Orleans, CNN reported on Thursday. At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday morning when a driver crashed a pick-up truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations. With the Federal Bureau of Investigation More
