Six rockets target Baghdad airport
BSS :Six rockets were fired on Friday at the Iraqi capital’s airport, causing damage, but no casualties, security sources said, the latest in a string...
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7 illegal Indians in US released from Border Patrol custody
BSS :Seven Indian nationals, who entered the US illegally and were arrested near the US/Canada border last week, have been released from Border Patrol’s custody...
After days of deadlock, Italy speeds up presidential vote
BSS :Italian political leaders agreed on Friday to paralyse Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government.Four rounds of voting in parliament since Monday have failed to produce...
Dozens of people missing after boat capsizes off Florida: US Coast Guard
BSS : The US Coast Guard launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a...
Military coups ‘unacceptable’: UN Chief
BSS : United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday after the putsch in Burkina Faso, military coups are ‘unacceptable,’ calling on West African armies...
Sri Lanka to pay $200m compensation for failed organic farm drive
Al Jazeera : Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the...
Taliban diktat sparks debate about women’s attire
Al Jazeera : Many Afghan women in the capital Kabul have protested against a poster campaign launched by the Taliban, encouraging women to wear a...
Internet services return to Yemen
BSS : Internet services returned to Yemen on Tuesday after a four-day outage caused by deadly coalition air strikes that marked a dramatic uptick in...
Seven injured in US F-35 incident in South China Sea
BSS : Seven US sailors were injured Monday in a Navy F-35C fighter “landing mishap” on an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, the...
Heavy snowfall in Turkey forces Istanbul Airport to shut
Al Jazeera : Europe’s busiest airport shut down in Istanbul while schools and vaccination centres closed in Athens as a rare snowstorm blanketed swathes of...
Earthquake in China, No casualty
BSS :A 5.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the city of Delingha in northwest China’s Qinghai Province at 10:21 a.m. on Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China...
IS-Kurds battle after Syria prison attack kills over 120
BSS :At least 120 people have been killed in Syria including seven civilians as battles between US-backed Kurdish forces and Islamic State group fighters raged...