At least 40 people were killed and 50 others, mostly lawyers, injured on Monday when a bomb ripped through a hospital in Quetta in Pakistan’s restive south-western Balochistan province followed by gunfire.
In a turn of events that shocked the political world and threw the presidential race into unprecedented turmoil, Donald J. Trump announced yesterday that he is quitting the race and endorsing Hillary Clinton.Trump said the only point of his campaign was to show how stupid and gullible many Republican voters are.
South African track star Oscar Pistorius, serving six years in jail for murdering his girlfriend, was treated in hospital for minor wrist injuries on Saturday before being returned to custody, a prison service spokesman said.
Malaysia has warned that an Indonesia-based militant’s followers are looking to make South—East Asia the new base for Islamic State terror group, days after six Indonesian militants were arrested for plotting a missile attack at Singapore’s Marina Bay. I
Singapore called for heightened vigilance on Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based Islamic State militant.
Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its mayor urged world leaders to follow in U.S. President Barack Obama’s footsteps and visit, and ultimately rid the world of nuclear arms.
The Syriac Christian, who fled the war in Syria 3 years ago, will spend the next year representing local winemakers at dozens of events in the Moselle region.
Maoist chief Prachanda was on Wednesday elected by lawmakers as Nepal’s Prime Minister for a second time. The 61-year-old leader promised to lead the nation toward economic development and work as a bridge between communities following deadly protests over a divisive new Constitution.
Twenty-two people are feared killed as the two state transport buses in which they were travelling were washed away when a bridge linking Mahad and Poladpur on the Mumbai-Goa highway in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in Konkan collapsed in heavy rain in the early hours of Wednesday. Those feared killed include 18 passengers, two drivers and Read More
As work in the Gulf dries up, remittances from migrant workers are slipping, depriving developing nations of revenue…
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