At least 11 members of a family have been found dead in a house in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, media reports said on Thursday. A police official told Dawn that the deceased, including two brothers, their two wives and six children, appeared to have been poisoned and tortured to death two or three days More
At least 142 employees of United Nations have been killed so far in Gaza Strip, says the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The deaths of UN staffers were the highest in the organisation’s history, UNRWA was quoted by Qatar News Agency. The agency said in a statement that 130 of its More
At least 21 people were injured as a result of an explosion at a hotel in Texas, the United States, a media report said on Tuesday. The blast took place at the Sandman Signature Fort Worth Downtown Hotel, according to a spokesperson for MedStar, which provides emergency medical services and operates ambulances in the area, More
At least five police personnel were killed and 27 others injured in a blast near a police van in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, media reports said. The explosion took place close to a police van in the Mamund Tehsil area of Bajaur, District Police Officer (DPO) Kashif Zulfiqar told Geo More
The Biden administration’s top diplomat has opposed forcing Palestinians into exiting Gaza, reports the BBC. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed Palestinians must be allowed to return to their homes once conditions improved. During his visit to Qatar, Blinken denounced statements from some Israeli ministers regarding the resettlement of Palestinians elsewhere. The Hamas-run health More
A noted Pakistani religious scholar has been gunned down by unidentified attackers in Islamabad, media reports said on Saturday. Deputy Secretary General of Sunni Ulema Council Maulana Masood Rehman Usmani was shot dead in Ghauri town area on Friday, police said. On receiving information, police personnel and a large number of activists and local leaders More
At least 162 Palestinians have been killed and another 296 injured in latest bombardment by Israeli forces on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli forces “struck over 100 targets” across Gaza during the past 24 hours, including military positions, rocket launch sites, and weapons depots, according to Arab News. The death toll mounted in the More
More than 100 people have been killed and 141 others wounded in two back-to-back bombings in Iran, IRNA reported on Thursday. The massive explosions occurred close to the tomb of Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Kerman city late on Wednesday, the state-run news agency said. The blasts apparently targeted the people attending the fourth martyrdom anniversary More
Japanese authorities say the death toll from the Ishikawa prefecture earthquake has risen to 62. The Associated Press quoted officials of Ishikawa province as saying on Wednesday that most of the casualties were reported from the cities of Wajima and Suzu. Over 300 more people were wounded in the quake, officials said, adding the search More
Saudi Arabia has formally joined the BRICS bloc of countries, a media report said on Wednesday. The Saudi foreign minister had said in August the kingdom would study the details before the proposed Jan. 1 joining date and take “the appropriate decision”, according to Reuters. The BRICs bloc previously included Brazil, Russia, India, China and More
