India warns Pakistan to stop ‘unprovoked firing
BBC Online :India has warned Pakistan of heavy retaliation if it does not stop “unprovoked firing” in Kashmir.Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said India would make...
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6000 evacuated to relief camps
TNN, Jammu :Nearly 6000 villagers from the border areas in Jammu & Kashmir have been shifted to the relief camps established in Kathua district in...
Imran slams Sharif’s silence over LoC crisis
PTI, Islamabad :Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan has said that the country needs a better leader than Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to respond to the...
19 dead as wedding boat sinks near Bali
Al-Jazeera.com :Nineteen people have been confirmed dead after a boat carrying 49 people, including a groom and his wedding guests, sunk on its way to...
Pressure mounts on HK leader over payout amid crisis
Reuters, Hong Kong :Democratic lawmakers in Hong Kong demanded anti-graft officers investigate a $6.4 million business payout to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday, as...
IS seizes one third of Syrian border town
Reuters, Beirut :Islamic State fighters have seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani despite US-led air strikes targeting them in...
Vietnamese tanker crew freed by pirates
BBC Online :A Vietnamese oil tanker which went missing last week was seized by pirates who stole some of its cargo before releasing its crew,...
Car Bomb Kills 12 in Baghdad
AFP, Baghdad :A car bomb blast on a busy street of Baghdad’s largest Shiite neighbourhood killed at least 12 people, Iraqi police and medical sources...
1 killed in Malaysian night club blast
AP, Malaysia :Malaysian police say one person died and 13 others injured when a hand grenade blew up om Thursday outside a night club at...
Suicide blast takes 42 lives in Yemen
Reuters, Sanaa :A suicide bomber killed at least 42 people on Thursday when he detonated an explosives-laden belt in a district of the Yemeni capital...
Deaths in Kurdish protests across Turkey
Al-Jazeera.com :At least 12 people were killed in demonstrations across Turkey, local media reported, as Kurds demanded the government do more to protect the Syrian-Kurdish...
Canadian Parliament authorizes air strikes against IS
AP, Toronto :Following a request from the US, Canada’s Parliament has voted to authorize airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group in Iraq.Prime Minister...