More than 100 die in Lake Victoria ferry disaster
Nairobi, Sep 21 : The death toll in a ferry capsize in Lake Victoria climbed to more than 100 on Friday, as Tanzanian rescue workers pressed on with searches to find scores of more people feared drowned. The MV Nyerere may have been carrying as many as 200 passengers — double the ferry’s capacity — […]
S Korean leader arrives in Pyongyang for summit
Seoul, Sep 18 : South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in Pyongyang Tuesday for his third summit this year with Kim Jong Un as he seeks to reboot stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States. Kim welcomed his visitor at Pyongyang’s international airport — where he supervised missile launches last year as tensions […]
Myanmar army should be removed from politics: UN probe
Yangon, Sep 18 : Myanmar’s powerful army should be removed from politics, UN investigators said Tuesday, as they released the final part of a damning report reiterating calls for top generals to be prosecuted for “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority. A brutal military crackdown last year forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee over the […]
Israeli missiles target Damascus airport: State media
Damascus, Sep 16: An Israeli missile attack targeted the Syrian capital’s airport late Saturday, activating air defences which shot down a number of the projectiles, state news agency SANA reported. “Our air defences responded to an Israeli missile attack on Damascus international airport and shot down a number of hostile missiles,” a military source said, […]
Death toll in Tuesday suicide attack soars to 68: Afghan officials
Jalalabad, Sep 12 : The death toll from a suicide attack on Afghan protesters has soared to 68, officials said Wednesday, as violence flares across the country ahead of elections and a key Islamic holy day. Another 165 were wounded in the blast — one of the deadliest attacks this year — on Tuesday in […]
Australian cartoonist under fire for Serena sketch
Sydney, Sept 11 : An Australian cartoonist has come under withering criticism for portraying tennis superstar Serena Williams using — what Harry Potter author JK Rowling described as — “racist and sexist tropes”. Mark Knight’s caricature, published in Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper on Monday, shows a butch and fat-lipped Williams jumping up and down on her […]
Taliban kill dozens in attacks across north Afghanistan: Officials
Mazar-I-Sharif, Sep 10 : Taliban fighters killed nearly 60 members of Afghanistan’s beleaguered security forces in a spate of attacks across the country’s north, officials said Monday, as diplomatic efforts to end the 17-year war intensify. Heavy fighting overnight in four provinces followed a wave of violence across the war-torn country in recent weeks that […]
7 wounded in Paris knife attack, including British tourists
Paris, Sep 10 : Seven people including two British tourists were wounded in Paris late Sunday by a knife-wielding man, a terrifying attack that bystanders tried to stop by throwing petanque balls at the assailant. Four of the victims were in a critical condition, police said, after the man brandishing a large blade and and iron […]
Russia prepares for biggest war games in its history
Moscow, Sep 10 : Russia on Tuesday will launch the biggest military drills in its history involving 300,000 troops as well as Chinese soldiers, in a move NATO denounced as “exercising large-scale conflict”. The week-long deployment alongside Chinese and Mongolian armies dubbed “Vostok-2018” (East-2018) will start in eastern Siberia on September 11. It comes at […]
Iran Guards confirm missile strikes on Kurd rebels in Iraq
Tehran, Sep 9 : Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards confirmed Sunday they had launched deadly missile strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq the previous day. “The terrorists’ headquarters… was successfully struck by seven surface-to-surface rockets on Saturday by the missile department of the Guards’ aerospace force,” it said on its Sepah News website. The statement […]
