GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel conducted air strikes on the central Gaza Strip early Thursday, according to AFP journalists and witnesses, hours after intercepting a rocket fired from the Palestinian
A United Nations (UN) delegation has warned the Taliban that Afghanistan would be further isolated if it isolates its women, Afghanistan-based news agency Khaama Press reported. According to The Khaama
An Iranian couple in their 20s have been given jail sentences totalling 10 years after posting a video of themselves dancing in the street. They were reportedly convicted for promoting
Myanmar democracy activists called for businesses to close nationwide on Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, with the military junta hinting it
The overall number of Covid cases around the world has now crossed 675 million, with a sudden surge of cases in Asia and some other parts of the world. According
Bodies were still being pulled Tuesday from the wreckage of a mosque blast that targeted police officers in northwestern Pakistan, killing over 80 people and wounding 150 more. The attack
A blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan on Monday killed at least 17 worshippers and wounded 80 more, said hospital officials. The incident happened during afternoon
Three years to the day after the World Health Organization sounded the highest level of global alert over Covid-19, it said on Monday that the pandemic remained an international crisis.
Russia accused the Ukrainian military of deliberately striking a hospital in a Russian-held area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday in what it said was a war crime that killed 14
At least 40 people were killed when a bus plunged off a bridge in southwestern Pakistan and burst into flames, a government official said on Sunday. ‘The dead bodies…are beyond