Amid escalating violence, more than a dozen security personnel have been killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. At least eight security personnel were killed and three others wounded in fierce gun battles with suspected militants in Tirah valley. Nine alleged fighters were also killed in the heavy exchange of gunfire, following an attack on a More
Unidentified militants have kidnapped seven policemen from their check post in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local media reported on Tuesday. District Police Officer Ziauddin told GEO News unidentified gunmen seized control of the Rocha check post and kidnapped seven police personnel along with their weapons. According to the private TV channel, More
Dozens of American legislators have urged US President Joe Biden to push Islamabad to release Imran Khan and other political prisoners. In a letter, the second such communication in less than a month, 46 Democratic and Republican MPs called on the outgoing president to help secure the release of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman. The More
A former student went on a stabbing rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing eight people and injuring 17 others. According to Reuters, the knife attack occurred at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology in Yixing, located in Wuxi city within the eastern province of Jiangsu. The 21-year-old suspect was arrested More
Two incendiary bombs have been fired into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence, a media report said on Sunday. Reuters reported: “Two flash bombs were fired towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday and fell into the garden”. The media outlet said neither Netanyahu nor his More
At least 10 elderly people were killed as a result of a fire at a retirement home in northern Spain, a media report said on Saturday. Reuters reported: “At least 10 people were killed after a fire broke out in a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro early on Friday”. More
Save the Children says 4.9 million children die every year form preventable disease across the country. The British charity wrote on X: “A shocking 4.9m children die every year from preventable diseases …” It noted climate change, conflicts and global health emergencies were threatening child survival across the world. “It’s time for action, not words,” More
Five people, including four children, were killed and 14 other persons injured in a bomb blast in the North Waziristan District of Pakistan on Thursday, a media report said. Mashal Radio reported the blast happened early morning in Meransha’s Tapi locality inside a house. “Some people put explosives in a Mazda vehicle when a blast More
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
