At least 35 people have been killed after a man ploughed his car into crowds exercising at an outdoor sports centre in southern China, media reports said on Wednesday. Another 43 people were injured and hospitalised as a result of the rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai on Monday night, Reuters reported. It said More
At least five Iranian border guards have been killed in an armed attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province, a media report said on Monday. The ethnic Baluch members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s volunteer Basij force were killed in Saravan city on Sunday night, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. The troops came under attack while performing More
One individual has been killed and 16 others have been injured in a shooting at the Tuskegee University in Alabama, the United States. According to the Associated Press, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reported that Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was arrested while leaving the scene of the campus shooting. Authorities discovered he was carrying More
The US president-elect has asked the Russian leader not to escalate the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, reports The Washington Post. In a phone call, Donald Trump reminded Vladimir Putin of America’s massive military presence in Europe, the newspaper quoted sources as saying. The incoming US president evinced an interest in follow-up discussions on the early More
Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a second term in the White House, Fox News reported. The 2024 election was a “movement never seen before”, a triumphant Trump told supporters at an election watch event in Palm Beach, Florida With more than 90 percent of the ballots counted, More
Amid a search for the missing people, the death toll from Spain’s deadliest floods in decades has soared to 95, reports CNN. Spain’s Minister of Territorial Policy Angel Victor Torres was quoted as saying 92 people were killed in the worst-hit region of Valencia,. Two deaths were reported from Castile-La-Mancha and from Andalusia, as heavy More
Three security personnel, including an army major, and eight alleged militants have been killed in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The killings occurred in a shootout in the Bakka Khel area of the volatile district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. A statement from the army’s media wing said the More
In a paradoxical step, Israeli lawmakers have passed legislation banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating in the Jewish state and Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem. Also banning contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials, the proposed laws would drastically curtail the UN agency’s ability to work in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the More
The Russian president and the UN secretary-general will discuss the Middle East and Ukraine crises and important international issues after the BRICS summit in Kazan. Representatives from 40 countries, the member states of the BRICS bloc including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are attending the three-day summit in the Kazan city of Tatarstan More
Israel government and media reports have claimed the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the new political bureau chief of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, in Gaza strip. The Israeli military confirmed Sinwar’s death on Thursday, but Hamas has not yet commented on the claim, Aljazeera reported. According to the Israeli military statement, Sinwar was killed on More
