At least 23 people have been killed and six others went missing when a boat capsized in a lake in Philippine, according to a media report on Friday. The accident happened in the early afternoon on Thursday at Laguna Lake, near Manila, hours after Typhoon Doksuri had swept out of the northern part of the More
On World Drowning Prevention Day, the World Health Organization says almost 236,000 people die of drowning every year globally. Every year in Afghanistan, as the weather warms up, the number of deaths due to drowning in rivers increases because young people and teenagers go for swimming in summer. Several people have drowned and died in More
At least 31 people have died after torrential rains triggered deadly flash floods and landslides in South Korea, media reports said on Sunday. The death toll from the flash floods raised to 31 with five bodies of people who were trapped under a tunnel submerged by firefighting authorities said, Reuters reported. The five people were More
Despite significant progress against hunger made by developing Asia over 300 million people were still food insecure, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday. ADB in its review report said: “In the past two decades, developing Asia has made significant progress in its fight against hunger, lifting more than 200 million people from undernourishment. This More
Seven people have been killed and 10 others injured in the collapse of a three-storey hotel located in Pakistan’s central province of Punjab. The private hotel on the busy Grand Trunk Road in Jhelum city collapsed following a gas cylinder explosion on Sunday, local officials said. At least seven bodies have been retrieved from the More
Gunmen have launched an attack on a police station in the Zahedan city of Iran, sparking an armed clash between the two sides, a media report said on Saturday. IRNA quoted Mahdi Shams, the attorney general of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, as saying the ongoing assault was launched in the morning. Shams said More
A gunman and a security guard have been killed in an exchange of fire outside the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to a media report on Thursday. “At 6:45 pm (1545 GMT), a man stopped in a car in front of the consulate building and got out with a weapon in his hand,” More
Security forces on Monday once again arrested Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) senior leader and lawmaker Ali Wazir in North Waziristan. Idris Pashteen, a friend of PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen, wrote on his Twitter that Ali Wazir was ‘abducted’ from North Waziristan. He added the security forces took Ali Wazir to the Spilga military base. According More
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Faisal Bin Farhan has arrived in Tehran seven years after his country broke ties with Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed in March, in a deal brokered by China, to end a diplomatic rift and re-establish relations following years of hostility that had endangered regional stability including in Yemen, Syria and More
Three children and a baby were reported to have been found alive more than two weeks after a plane crashed with them on board in the Colombian Amazon jungle, according to a media report on Friday. Aljazeera reported that Colombian authorities had deployed more than 100 soldiers with sniffer dogs to search for the children More
