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Reuters :An apartment fire on Thursday in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang killed 10 people and injured nine, state broadcaster CCTV reported, saying an electric socket extension was the cause.The fire started at...
Dawn :In a major statement involving the Liberation War, outgoing Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the country’s surrender during the 1971 war with Bangladesh was not a military but...
Reuters :Summer heatwaves in France, Germany, Spain and Britain led to more than 20,000 “excess” deaths, a report compiling official figures said on Thursday.Temperatures hit nearly 40 degrees Celsius or above from Paris to...
AFP :Libya on Thursday sent more than 200 illegal migrants back across its land borders, in a rare display of cooperation from the country’s divided political institutions. The migrants, dressed in differing tracksuits to...
AFP :Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was set to address an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council Wednesday, as Russian strikes left the country’s energy system in tatters.“Murder of civilians, ruining of civilian infrastructure...
Agency :Turkish strikes on Wednesday targeted Kurdish forces controlling northern Syria’s Al-Hol detention camp, home to over 50,000 people including relatives of suspected jihadists, Kurdish forces and a war monitor said.“Turkish planes targeted the...
Reuters :Pakistan on Thursday named Lieutenant-General Asim Munir as chief of the army, an organization that plays an extraordinarily influential role in the governance of the nuclear-armed nation.Munir, who was also Pakistan’s chief spy,...
Al Jazeera :Tehran, Iran – Iran has increased its enrichment of uranium and use of advanced centrifuges at two nuclear sites in response to a censure resolution passed against it at the global nuclear...
AFP :A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Solomon Islands on Tuesday, with eyewitnesses reporting violent shaking that hurled items to the ground and knocked out power in parts of the capital Honiara.“This was a...
Reuters :Malaysia’s king said on Tuesday he will pick the next prime minister, after the leading two contenders failed to win a majority in last weekend’s election and his proposal for the two to...
Reuters :Three successive heatwaves and Covid-19 are likely to have caused more than 10,000 additional deaths in France during this summer, the health ministry said.A total of 10,420 excess deaths were registered between June...
Deutsche Welle :New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that lawmakers will be asked to vote on lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 following a top-level court decision.The country’s Supreme...