Canada to send four combat-ready Leopard tanks to Ukraine
AFP :Canada said Thursday it will join the United States, Germany and other countries in supplying heavy tanks to Ukraine to fight off Russian forces,...
International
One killed in attack on Azerbaijan embassy in Iran
AFP :A man armed with a Kalashnikov shot dead an official in charge of security at Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran on Friday and wounded two...
Democratic senators call for ban on marketing guns to kids
AFP :Outraged Democratic lawmakers called Thursday for a halt to a marketing campaign aimed at children for a semi-automatic rifle called the JR-15.“What are we...
Blast kills at least 50 in north central Nigeria
Reuters :Dozens of cattle herders and bystanders were killed and several injured by a suspected bomb blast in Nigeria’s north central region, a state government...
Power surge crashes Pakistan grid, plunging millions into darkness
Reuters :Pakistan’s generators produced more power than was required on Monday, causing volta ge fluctuations that culminated in a system collapse that plunged 220 million...
Five US police officers charged with beating Black man to death
AFP :US authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern...
California massacres heighten immigrants’ fears of US gun violence
AFP :America was supposed to be a place of safety for Jose Romero when he arrived some two years ago to work on a California...
Norway fund drops China, India firms over Myanmar weapons
AFP :Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, has excluded two companies from China and India for selling weapons to Myanmar, the Norwegian central bank...
Imran Khan’s aide arrested for election criticism
AFP :An aide to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Wednesday for criticizing election officials, police said, the latest case brought against...
California staggered by deadly back-to-back mass shootings
Reuters :Just two days after a gunman killed 11 people at a Los Angeles-area dance studio, seven more victims were shot dead in an agricultural...
Indian university bans screening of BBC series on PM Modi
AFP :A top Indian university has banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during deadly 2002 sectarian riots, after...
Pakistan hit by nationwide power outage
AFP ; A massive power breakdown in Pakistan on Monday affected most of the country’s more than 220 million people, including in the mega cities...