Two individuals have been killed and five others wounded in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province. The overnight explosion occurred in a crowded shopping area of Khuzdar town late on Sunday evening, police said. Many people, including women and children, were busy with Eid shopping when the blast happened, Dawn reported. At least More
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived on a two-day visit in Beijing on Monday for talks on ‘burning issues’ of common interest. The top Russian diplomat is due to meet China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, TASS news agency reported. They will focus on the situation in Ukraine and the Asia-Pacific region, bilateral cooperation More
Turkey has canceled the visa-free travel regime for Tajik citizens in compliance with a presidential decree, media reports said on Sunday. “A decision was made to cancel the visa-free regime for citizens of Tajikistan holding ordinary foreign passports when traveling to Turkey,” Anatolia news agency reported. The measure is based on the Law on Foreigners More
Two people were killed and seven others injured after police and a gunman exchanged fire in Florida State of the United States, reports said on Sunday. CBS News reported the clash occurred in in a bar at CityPlace Doral, a leisure destination in Miami, in the early morning and gunshots were then fired among a security guard, More
At least five Iranian security forces have been killed in two separate attacks in southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, media reports said on Thursday. At least 15 militants were also killed in the overnight clashes in the Iranian towns of Chabahar and Rask in the impoverished province, Iranian state media reported. It said ten more More
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Noor Islam Nizami was gunned down on Tuesday in North Waziristan district, the Express Tribute reported on Wednesday. District Police Officer (DPO) confirmed Nizami lost his life on the spot as a result of the gunfire. An investigation into the More
At least 29 people have been killed and three others injured as a result of a blaze at a nightclub in the central Istanbul city of Turkey, an official said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu said the fire erupted in a basement of a 16-story building in Besiktas area More
The body of of the man who burnt the Holy Quran in Sweden and Denmark has been found in his house in Norway, media reports said on Wednesday. The Iraqi refugee and critic of Islam, Salwan Sabah Matti Momika, had staged several burnings of the Holy Quran in Sweden and Denmark. After Momika’s body was More
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake rattled eastern Taiwan on Wednesday morning, killing at least seven people, a media report said. The temblor, billed as the strongest to hit Taiwan in 25 years, left seven people dead and more than 700 wounded, Reuters reported. Another 77 people are reportedly trapped in tunnels and buildings, which caved in More
Five World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers, including foreigners, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. Reuters quoted the Gaza government media office as saying the victims included citizens of Poland, Australia and Britain, as well as a Palestinian. Meanwhile, WCK wrote on X: “We are aware of reports that members of the World More
