A suicide bomb attack on a classroom of hundreds of people preparing for exams in the Afghan capital on Friday killed at least 19 people, with most of the casualties girls, police and a witness said. The blast ripped through Kaaj Higher Educational Center, which coaches mainly adult men and women ahead of university entrance […]
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J-K, Udhampur/Jammu, Sep 29 (PTI): Suspected terrorists triggered a blast in a parked bus in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur early Thursday, nine hours after a similar explosion took place in the city but there was no casualty, police said. A National Investigation Team (NIA) from Jammu visited the sites of the twin blasts and undertook […]
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Police on Thursday registered a case against the outlawed Sindhudesh People’s Army, said to be a coalition of Sindhi and Baloch separatist outfits, for attacking Chinese dentists in Karachi’s Saddar area on September 28, police officials said. Dr Richard Hu and his wife Phen Teyin were injured while their employee, Ronald Raymond Chou, was killed […]
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Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday to annex four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham. Russian-backed officials had earlier claimed the five-day exercise secured almost total popular support. So-called votes were held in Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and in […]
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DUBAI: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday said that the death of a young woman in custody had “saddened” everyone in the Islamic Republic, but warned that “chaos” would not be accepted amid spreading violent protests over Mahsa Amini’s death. Amini’s death two weeks ago has sparked anti-government protests across Iran, with protesters often calling […]
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VIENNA: Pakistan has received three Regional Cooperation Agreement (RCA) awards in Vienna, Austria, both for the institutional category and the individual category. Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recognised achievements of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on its 50th Anniversary. A ministerial level meeting was organised by the International Atomic […]
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Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the leaking of several audio files released over the past week and a review of cybersecurity at the prime minister’s office (PMO). The National Security Committee, comprising Sharif himself, top military and government officials met on Wednesday to […]
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Turkish Coast Guard teams have rescued 73 irregular migrants pushed back by Greece in three operations conducted off the Aegean province of Muğla’s Datça district. Initiating an operation upon notifications that there was a group of irregular migrants in two rubber boats off the coast of Datça, teams rescued 53 irregular migrants, who were determined […]
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ISLAMABAD — A group of women in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, Thursday staged what was the first demonstration in support of protests in Iran before being forcefully dispersed by Taliban authorities. The rally comes as nationwide protests continued in the neighboring country over the death of a young woman, Masha Amini, while in detention by morality […]
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An Israeli raid targeting alleged militants in a West Bank flashpoint killed four Palestinians on Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, including the brother of a man blamed for a deadly attack in Tel Aviv. The violence was the latest to hit Jenin, in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an area that has […]
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