PTI, Islamabad
Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was today indicted by an anti-corruption court hearing the Panama Papers case for possessing assets beyond known sources of income.
The minister pleaded not guilty to all charges, terming them baseless.
Anti-corruption watchdog National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on September 8 filed a case against Dar for possessing assets beyond his known sources of income following the July 28 verdict of the Supreme Court.
The top court had disqualified Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister and ordered corruption cases against him, his children Maryam, Husain and Hasan and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar.
Hurricane Irma death toll now 72 in Florida
AFP, Miami
Hurricane Irma killed 72 people in Florida when it battered the southern state on September 10, according to an updated death toll that includes figures from individual counties.
Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) spokesman Alberto Moscoso confirmed an official toll of 54 to AFP Tuesday.
But this figure does not include eight known victims in the Florida Keys, or 10 elderly victims who died in a nursing home north of Miami.
Fire at Ukraine arms depot triggers blasts, evacuations
AFP, Kiev
A fire tore through a major munitions depot in Ukraine on Tuesday, setting off artillery shells, forcing the closure of airspace for 50 kilometres around and the evacuation of residents, officials and reports said.
The fire broke out at around 10pm (2000 GMT) near the town of Kalynivka in the central Vinnytsia region, the Ukrainian army high command said on Facebook.
Attack on Mexico drug rehab center leaves 14 dead
AFP, Ciudad Juarez
At least 14 people were killed and 8 injured Tuesday night in northern Mexico when an armed group opened fire in a drug addiction rehabilitation center, local police said.
In a statement security officials in the city of Chihuahua said “an armed group entered the Uniting Families rehabilitation center,” attacking those inside with assault rifles.
First responders arrived on scene to care for the wounded in the center, where some 25 people were estimated to have been during the attack.
5 killed in suicide attack on Nigeria mosque
AFP, Kano
A female suicide bomber killed five people on Tuesday when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists, local militiamen told AFP.
The bomber stormed the mosque in the town of Dikwa, 90 kilometres (60 miles) from Maiduguri, at around 5:00 am (0400 GMT) and detonated her explosives.
