Category: International

At least 16 people were killed and 24 others wounded on Wednesday by a blast at a madrassa in Afghanistan’s northern city of Aybak, a doctor at a local hospital said. “A blast took place around 12:45pm inside Jahdia Madrassa in the centre of city. Lots of boys are studying at this madrassa (religious school),” […]

QUETTA: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers outside Quetta on Wednesday, killing four people, including a policeman, and wounding at least 23, mostly law enforcement. Ghulam Azfar Mahesar, deputy inspector general (DIG) of Quetta police, said the attack happened when the policemen […]

NATO meets on Tuesday to drum up much-needed support for Ukraine. Foreign ministers from countries in the western military alliance will gather in Romania to discuss how they can assist Ukraine after Russian strikes on its power networks ahead of winter. But the meet-up location — Bucharest — is hugely significant given Russia’s war in […]

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — An Iranian general on Monday acknowledged that more than 300 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding nationwide protests, giving the first official word on casualties in two months. That estimate is considerably lower than the toll reported by Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based group that has […]

Police in southern India on Tuesday ramped up security around Vizhinjam port being built by billionaire Gautam Adani’s group after scores of people were injured during clashes with protesters from a fishing community over the weekend. Construction at the mega $900-million port project on the southern tip of India has been halted for more than […]

Iran has for the first time reported that more than 300 people have died in over two months of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody. The Islamic republic has deployed state security forces against what it labels “riots” that broke out after the 22-year-olf Kurdish-Iranian died on September 16, […]

People in China who attended weekend protests against Covid restrictions say they have been contacted by police, as authorities begin clamping down. Several people in Beijing said police had called demanding information about their whereabouts. It is unclear how police might have discovered their identities. On Tuesday officials renewed a promise to speed up efforts […]

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, before a suspected car-ramming attacker was killed after seriously wounding a woman, Israeli medics and the army said. The army confirmed its troops had fired on protestors who allegedly attacked soldiers in two separate West Bank […]

ISLAMABAD: Member of National Assembly (MNA) Mohsin Dawar was stopped by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) at Islamabad International Airport on Sunday before his departure to Tajikistan for the Herat Security Dialogue. In a series of tweets, Dawar condemned the “outrageous” incident. He emphasised that his name had been removed from the Exit Control List […]

So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a vigil to remember the victims of a fire that catalysed the demonstrations came clutching sheets of paper. Similarly, […]