Sweden sends special diving vessel to area of pipeline leaks
Copenhagen: Sweden has sent a vessel capable of “advanced diving missions” to the Baltic Sea area where ruptured undersea pipelines leaked natural gas for days, the Swedish navy said Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of sabotaging Russia-built natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea to Germany, a charge vehemently denied […]
174 die as tear gas triggers crush at Indonesia soccer match
Malang (Indonesia): Panic and a chaotic run for exits after police fired tear gas at an Indonesian soccer match to drive away rampaging fans left at least 174 dead, most of whom were trampled upon or suffocated, making it one of the deadliest sports events in the world. Attention immediately focused on the police use […]
Turkey says 23 Kurdish militants killed in Iraq airstrikes
Istanbul: Turkish warplanes “neutralised” 23 Kurdish militants in a raid 140 kilometres (90 miles) inside Iraq, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry usually refers to killed militants as “neutralised.” It said the number of casualties in the mission in the Asos region of northern Iraq, which is controlled by the autonomous Kurdistan […]
Pak Cabinet approves legal action against Imran Khan over leaked ‘foreign conspiracy’ cypher audios: Report
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Cabinet on Sunday formally decided to launch legal action against former premier Imran Khan over his audio leaks in which he could allegedly be heard discussing the controversial US cypher and how to exploit it to portray his ouster in April as a conspiracy, according to a media report. Taking notice of the […]
India abstains, Russia vetoes UNSC resolution on Moscow’s ‘illegal referenda’ in 4 Ukraine regions
United Nations: India, citing the “totality of the evolving situation,” has abstained on a UN Security Council resolution, vetoed by Russia, that would have condemned Moscow’s “illegal referenda” and declared its annexation of four Ukrainian territories as invalid. The 15-nation UN Security Council voted on Friday on the draft resolution tabled by the US and […]
Western push on China, Russia at UN rights body faces test
Geneva: Western countries are leading a rare two-pronged push at the UN’s main human rights body to better scrutinise the human rights records of two big world powers: China, over allegations of abuses during an anti-extremism campaign in western Xinjiang, and Russia, over its government’s crackdown on dissent and protest against the war in Ukraine. […]
19 killed, including 4 elite Guard members, in Iran attack
Dubai: An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported Saturday. The assailants in Friday’s attack hid among worshippers near a mosque in the city of Zahedan and attacked the nearby police station, […]
‘Nasha Mukt J&K’ Campaign
During the month of September this year, the Union Territory (UT) administration launched a campaign again drug trafficking and drug abuse and special awareness camps were held across J&K with a special focus on the youth. This campaign was the need of the day as not a single day passes when the local media doesn’t […]
Suicide bomber strikes Kabul education center, killing 19
Kabul: A suicide bomber struck an education centre in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, including teenagers who were taking practice entry exams for university, a Taliban spokesman said. The morning explosion at the centre took place in Kabul’s Dashti Barchi neighbourhood, an area populated mostly […]
Putin signs treaties annexing Ukrainian regions
Kyiv: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties Friday to annex occupied areas of Ukraine and said he would use “all available means” to protect the territory that Ukrainian and Western officials said Russia was claiming illegitimately and in violation of international law. In a speech preceding the treaty-signing ceremony, Putin urged Ukraine to sit down […]
