Airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan killed 45 people, including civilians and Taliban, local officials said on Wednesday. Ali Ahmad Faqir Yar, the governor of Adraskan District in the eastern Afghanistan province of Herat, said at least eight civilians were among the dead. “Forty-five people had been killed so far in airstrikes by security forces in the Kham Ziarat area, Taliban were among those killed,“ he said. It was unclear how many of the remaining 37 were civilians and how many were...
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Dhaka North Mayor Annisul Huq has been laid to rest at the capital’s Banani Graveyard. People from all walks of...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at supporters of “terrorism” in his Independence Day speech on Monday, ratcheting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding direct mention of month-long protests in Indian-ruled Kashmir.Modi also pitched a vision of national unity and progress in his third annual address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Old Delhi that, at 94 minutes, was the longest delivered by the 65-year-old leader. Yet it was a broadside against Pakistan, the arch-rival also born out...
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday dispatched five military vessels to monitor a U.S. warship hosting one of America’s top generals on a day trip through the Strait of Hormuz, coming as close as 500 yards (meters).For Army General Joseph Votel, who oversees all American military forces in the Middle East, the approaches were a safe though worrying reminder of how little time American forces have to decide whether IRGC ships might pose a threat.The five Iranian vessels consisted...
France right back Bacary Sagna, who will face the daunting task of keeping a close eye on Cristiano Ronaldo in...
Global equity markets surged on Friday as investors set aside any fear of economic softness in a weak US jobs report, but bond yields and the dollar fell as the data showed employers hired far fewer workers than expected in January.Non-farm payrolls rose by 113,000, well below the consensus of 185,000, although the unemployment rate hit a five-year low of 6.6 percent, the US Labour Department said.The dollar fell broadly as safe-haven gold and US government debt prices rose on...
Two suicide bombers attacked a packed Catholic church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding...
Pope Francis ended a diplomatically tricky trip to Asia on Saturday, seeking the forgiveness of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh...
A humanitarian group said it recovered the bodies of four migrants and rescued around 400 survivors on Tuesday from an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean between Italy and Libya.The dead had suffocated below deck, the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), whose Topaz Responder rescue ship carried out the operation, said on Twitter.Emergency, another humanitarian organization, was treating another person who was found on the same boat in a critical condition, MOAS said.A spokesman for the Italian coast guard,...
Democrat Bernie Sanders will team up with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail for the first time on Tuesday, joining...
Two police officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just...
At least 20 Pakistani soldiers were killed on Sunday when an explosion hit an army convoy in the northwestern town...