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
At least 147 people have been killed and 70 others wounded as a result of a fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria, a media report said on Thursday. The blast in Majiya, a village in Jigawa state, occurred after the vehicle crashed and while locals were attempting to retrieve the fuel, CNN reported. “The driver lost More
At least four policemen, including an officer, were wounded when a roadside blast ripped their vehicle in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pathunkhwa province on Wednesday, a media report said. The blast hit the police van en route to Kankwe area from Ameble. Four policemen, including an officer, were injured in the blast. The injured were evacuated More
Nine people, including four policemen, have been killed in an attack on a police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district. Five suspected burqa-clad militants, wearing suicide vests, were killed on Monday when they stormed the Police Lines, the district police officer said. The incident, in which four policemen were also killed, came shortly after the More
The entire region is in a dangerous situation, Iran says, asking the countries concerned to do all they can to stop Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Sayyed Abbas Araghchi said this at a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani in Baghdad. A statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry said: More