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13 dead in Pakistan road crash

AFP :At least 13 people were killed when a passenger van and a bus collided and caught fire in Pakistan’s central Punjab province on Monday, police said.The vehicles were consumed by flames when a...

China gave corona vaccine to Kim

Reuters :China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a US analyst said on Tuesday, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources.Harry Kazianis, a North Korea...

Destruction of the Amazon rainforest rose to 11,088sq km (2.7 million acres) in 2020.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surges to 12-year high

Al Jazeera News :Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to a 12-year high in 2020, official government data showed on Monday, with destruction soaring since President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weakened environmental enforcement.In...

Family members of inmates react outside the prison, following unrest at Mahara Prison, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka on Monday.

8 killed in Sri Lanka prison riot

Reuters, Colombo :At least eight prisoners were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes with guards at a Sri Lankan prison, officials said on Monday, as authorities tried to quell a protest over...

Mourners attend the funeral of 43 farm workers in Zabarmari, about 20km from Maiduguri, Nigeria, after they were killed by Boko Haram fighters.

110 civilians killed in Nigeria massacre

Al Jazeera News :A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 110 people, the United Nations has said, raising tolls initially indicating 43 and then at least 70 dead.The killings took...

The diplomatic spat adds to already tense relations between the two Balkan states.

Montenegro and Serbia expel each other’s ambassadors

Al Jazeera News :Montenegro and Serbia have expelled one another’s ambassadors in tit-for-tat moves, just before the planned inauguration of a new, pro-Serb government in Podgorica.The diplomatic spat began on Saturday when Montenegro declared...