Gunmen from a suspected criminal gang attacked a village market in northwest Nigeria’s Sokoto state, killing 43 people, the state government said Monday. Heavily armed gangs known locally as bandits have
North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, its latest in a series of tests with analysts saying it could have been a
The overall number of global Covid cases is approaching 241 million even with mass inoculations underway in several countries. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted
Former US president Bill Clinton, 75, was released from a California hospital Sunday after spending five nights in treatment for an infection. Clinton, arm in arm with his wife and
Myanmar will release more than 5,000 people jailed for protesting against a February coup which ousted the civilian government, the country’s junta chief said Monday. A total of 5,636 prisoners
The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that killed at least 41 people
China has launched a second experimental space station, as it looks to have a crewed outpost by 2022. The Tiangong 2 blasted off just after 22:00 local time on Thursday
The total number of Covid-19 or coronavirus deaths exceeded 49 lakhs with the news deaths 6,958 across the globe as of Saturday morning. The overall number of global Covid cases
Vulnerable children and elderly people in North Korea are at risk of starvation, a UN expert has said, reports BBC. The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the country
An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. The blaze broke out