Category: International

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Moscow’s negotiating stance would shift following an alleged Ukrainian drone attack on President Vladimir Putin’s dacha in the Novgorod region.“Such reckless actions will not go unanswered,” Lavrov told Interfax news agency, accusing Ukraine of launching 91 long-range drones targeting the presidential state residence, also known as Valdai, […]

North Korea said on Monday it had fired long-range strategic cruise missiles into the sea to test the country’s nuclear deterrence, days after it showed apparent progress in the construction of its first nuclear-powered submarines.Sunday’s launches were the latest weapons display by Pyongyang ahead of its planned ruling Workers’ Party congress, due to take place […]

Pakistan on Friday summoned Britain’s deputy high commissioner Matt Cannell after a video circulated online showing a woman at a rally in the UK referring to a possible attack on Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir.The ministry of foreign affairs called in Cannell to lodge a formal protest and demanded an investigation after the woman, […]

Some of the stabbed victims remain in serious condition. A 38-year-old man was arrested for alleged attempted murder at the factory, authorities said.A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a tyre factory in central Japan on Friday, authorities said.The victims of the […]

London: Tarique Rahman, the 60-year-old leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), returned to Dhaka on Thursday to a hero’s welcome after spending 17 years in exile in the United Kingdom. The eldest son of former president General Ziaur Rahman and three-time prime minister Khaleda Zia, Rahman is now poised to follow in his parents’ footsteps […]

An explosion at an Alawite mosque in Syria’s third-largest city also injured 18 as authorities investigate the attack following a recent spike in violence.Eight people were killed and 18 were wounded in an apparent bombing attack against the Alawite minority’s Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in Homs during Friday prayers, according to preliminary reports.Ambulances […]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Thursday said that former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser Shahzad Akbar was brutally attacked in United Kingdom’s Cambridge.The party said that a 25-30 year old attacked punched Shahzad in the face, breaking his nose and jaw.In a social media post, PTI said that the Shahzad was attacked a just days before […]

Five people have been killed in a firefight between border guards and intruders on Tajikistan‘s border with Afghanistan, the Tajik border protection agency says.Heavily armed raiders from Afghanistan crossed into Tajikistan at the village of Kavo in the Shamsiddin Shokhin district on Tuesday and were located on Wednesday, according to a statement by the border […]

After 17 years in exile, Tarique Rahman, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and frontrunner to be the South Asian nation’s next prime minister, returned to Dhaka on Thursday to a rousing welcome by thousands of his party’s supporters.Rahman, long seen as a prince of Bangladeshi politics, got down at the Hazrat Shahjalal International […]