AFP : President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of the French government on Tuesday, but ask Prime Minister Gabriel...
AFP : Eight Pakistani troops were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-packed vehicle into an army enclave, the military said Tuesday, with one local official saying scores of people had been wounded. The attack in the western city of Bannu comes weeks after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a sweeping new campaign to root out militant groups, following a surge in attacks. The army said early Monday that 10 militants had tried to breach an area housing military...
AFP : The death toll from heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan rose to 47 on Tuesday, a local official said,...
Al Jazeera : The body of a rarely seen whale species appears to have washed ashore on a New Zealand...
Reuters : Yemen’s Houthis targeted three vessels, including an oil tanker, in the Red and Mediterranean seas with ballistic missiles,...
AFP : The death toll from a shooting near a Shiite mosque in Oman’s capital has climbed to six, police said Tuesday, adding that the three attackers were also killed. Monday’s shooting “resulted in the death of five individuals, the martyrdom of one policeman, and the death of the three perpetrators,” with at least 28 other people wounded, Omani police said in a statement. At least four Pakistanis were killed and another 30 wounded in the shooting, officials said Tuesday....
Madukhali (Faridpur) Correspondent : Court has given death sentence of a person named Rashed Kabir in the case of killing autovan driver Nayan Sardar in Madhukhali, Faridpur. At the same time, the court sentenced the other accused, Mizanur Khan, to three years’ imprisonment and one month’s imprisonment without paying a fine of Tk 5,000. Additional District and Sessions Judge 2nd Court Judge Shihabul Islam announced the verdict on Sunday (July 14) afternoon. Deputies Rashed Kabir and Mizanur Khan were present...
AFP : Global childhood vaccination levels have stalled, leaving millions more children un- or under-vaccinated than before the pandemic, the UN said Monday, warning of dangerous coverage gaps enabling outbreaks of diseases like measles. In 2023, 84 percent of children, or 108 million, received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP), with the third dose serving as a key marker for global immunisation coverage, according to data published by the UN health and children’s agencies. That...
AFP : US President Joe Biden sought to calm a divided nation on Sunday after his rival Donald Trump survived an assassination bid, saying in a rare Oval Office address that it was time to lower the temperature of America’s hostile politics. “It’s time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do that,” Biden said in a televised address following the attack in which Republican Trump was injured in the ear and a bystander was killed by...
AFP : The death toll from a car bombing at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu that was packed with football fans watching the the Euro 2024 final has risen to nine, security sources said Monday. Witnesses described scenes of panic and chaos after the powerful blast late Sunday, with people scrambling for safety and the main entrance to the cafe destroyed by the blaze. Mohamed Yusuf, an official from the national security agency, said nine civilians were killed and...
Aljazeera : Israeli forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials, medics and rescuers. The latest attack on Sunday struck the United Nations-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 17 people and injuring about 80. Most of the victims were women and children, said Palestinian Civil Defence. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where some...
Reuters : France’s left-wing parties still plan to form a joint government after they emerged as the strongest bloc in parliament in a snap election, but any pact is unlikely to come this week, the head of the Socialist Party (PS) said on Monday. “Nothing will happen before July 18.” Olivier Faure told France 2 television, referring to the date the newly elected National Assembly is due to convene for the first time. The New Popular Front (NPF), a hastily...