BEIRUT, Feb 11 (AFP): Syrian regime air strikes killed six civilians including two children overnight in Eastern Ghouta after a day of respite from deadly bombardment of the rebel enclave, a monitor said Sunday.Since February 5, President Bashar al-Assad's regime has intensified its bombardment of the besieged region outside Damascus,...
Read moreDUBAI, Feb 11 (AP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has applauded the "vibrant relationship" shared between his country and Gulf Arab nations during a visit to Dubai.Modi made the comments on Sunday at a speech at an invitation-only gala at the Dubai Opera.Modi said: "Today, whether it's the UAE or...
Read moreLAHORE, Feb 11 (Reuters): Pakistani human rights (HR) activist Asma Jahangir has passed away in Lahore at the age of 66.The senior lawyer suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital, where she died.Born in Lahore in 1952, Jahangir is the daughter of Pakistani politician and former West...
Read moreHAITI, Feb 11 (BBC): Charities doing overseas aid work will lose funding if they fail to cooperate over safeguarding issues, warned the international development secretary.Penny Mordaunt said it was "despicable" that sexual exploitation and abuse still existed in the aid sector.Her comments come after Oxfam workers were accused of using...
Read moreTEHRAN, Feb 11 (AFP): Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday called for a "year of unity" after recent protests as Iran celebrated 39 years since the Islamic revolution.Rouhani said conservative officials should not block candidates they dislike from future elections, and that there should be greater trust in the people,...
Read moreJAVA, Feb 11 (BBC): At least 25 people have been killed and another 16 injured as a bus ran off the road and overturned in Indonesia's West Java.The bus was taking 40 tourists to a hot spring near Mount Tangkuban Parahu on Saturday.It appears the bus collided with a motorcycle...
Read moreSRINAGAR, Feb 11 (AFP): The death toll from a militant attack on an army base in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir climbed to 10, police said, as a siege at the compound stretched into a second day.A firefight erupted Saturday when an unknown number of heavily-armed militants stormed the base...
Read moreCAIRO, Feb 11 (AFP): Egypt's army said Sunday it had killed 16 jihadists and detained 34 more in the Sinai Peninsula since launching a major operation against them on Friday.The security sweep in the Sinai, heart of a persistent Islamic State group insurgency, comes as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seeks...
Read moreWoman dies in Beijing Mall knife attackBEIJING, Feb 11: A woman was killed and 12 other people injured after a man carried out a knife attack in a mall in a busy shopping district in the Chinese capital, Beijing, police said on Sunday. Beijing police said in a short statement...
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