More than 40 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan’s Punjab and Balochistan provinces on Sunday, officials said. All 30 people on board lost their lives when a passenger bus plunged into a ditch near the garrison city of Rawalpindi, police officials said. The ill-fated bus was travelling from Haveli Kahuta to More
Pavel Durov, the founder of messaging app Telegram, has been arrested at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of Paris, a media report said on Sunday. The 39-year-old tech chief was travelling aboard his private jet, Reuters reported. He had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation. Both More
Two children were killed and 14 people, including two policemen, wounded in an explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Saturday. The blast happened at a busy market near Surkhab Chowk in Pishin district, from the casualties were shifted to the Pishin Civil Hospital. Dr Wakeel Sherani, the hospital’s medical superintendent, confirmed two children were More
Three people have been killed and four others injured in a knife attack at a festival in Solingen city in Germany, the BBC reported. The incident occurred during a festival in the city centre on Friday evening. The attacker remains at large. According to Bild, the assailant randomly targeted passers-by. Authorities have launched a massive More
The second-largest diamond ever found – a rough 2,492-carat stone – has been unearthed in Botswana at a mine owned by Canadian firm Lucara Diamond, a media report said. It is the biggest find since the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, found in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine separate stones, many of which are More
At least 17 people were killed and 40 others injured as a result of an explosion in Andhra Pradesh state of India, Reuters reported on Thursday. Reuters quoted Andhra Pradesh police chief M Deepika as saying the blast occurred at the Escientia Advance Science factory of Amakpali district on Wednesday, What caused the explosion was not More
Thirty-five Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 18 others wounded in a bus crash in neighbouring Iran on Wednesday morning, local TV channels reported. The vehicle carrying the pilgrims flipped over at a checkpoint in Yazd city, DawnNews TV said, citing Iranian media reports. With 53 passengers, mostly from Larkana and Ghotki areas of Sindh province, More
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has accepted a “bridging proposal” of ceasefire deal in Gaza and wants Hamas to do the same. On Monday, Blinken arrived in Israel to push for achieving a ceasefire in Gaza and end the 10-month-old conflict. Blinken spoke to journalists after a day of meetings with Israeli More
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on a state visit, says a media report. According to TASS news agency, Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are expected to meet on further strengthening bilateral relations and international issues. Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu was quoted as saying: “As it More
US President Joe Biden is optimistic about a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip, asking the parties involved not to undercut truce efforts, the BBC reported on Saturday. “We are closer than we’ve ever been” to a ceasefire in the embattled Palestinian enclave, the US leader said after the latest round of negotiations. Biden added More
