At least 20 others were wounded, says senior government official A bomb targeting a polio protection team in northwestern Pakistan Monday killed at least five police officers, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a senior government official…
Israel’s attacks have killed at least 22,722 people in the territory, most of them women and children Bereaved Palestinians on Saturday reburied bodies exhumed from a cemetery in Gaza City, where the Israeli army has been leading a ground offensive since late October, an AFP video showed. The footage from the cemetery in Al Tuffah…
Washington, DC: The Houthis launched an unmanned surface drone in the Red Sea, targeting commercial shipping lanes. This marks the first instance of the Houthis using such a weapon since the onset of their attacks on merchant vessels in the wake of the Gaza war, as reported by CNN. The US Navy commander in the region…
Japanese investigators on Wednesday probed a near-catastrophic collision at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport between a coast guard plane and a passenger jet that airline executives have said was given permission to land. Five people on the coast guard aircraft died, but all 379 passengers and crew escaped to safety down emergency slides minutes before the Japan…
Washington DC: Hours after the US helicopters sank three Houthi boats in the Red Sea, the White House issued a statement saying that it is not seeking a ‘wider conflict’ in the Middle East, CNN reported. Notably, the US helicopters sinking the Houthi boats and killing its crew, marked the first instance when the US killed…
7 deaths reported, 3 from Kerala, 2 from Karnataka and 1 each from Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu India on Saturday recorded 743 fresh Covid-19 infections, the highest single-day rise in 225 days, while the number of active cases stood at 3,997, the Union health ministry said. Seven new fatalities — three from Kerala, two from…
Vatry: A Nicaragua-bound plane carrying 303 Indian passengers will be allowed to leave on Monday, after being detained in France over human trafficking suspicions. The Airbus A340 was carrying 303 passengers from the United Arab Emirates, when it stopped on Thursday at the Vatry airport in eastern France to refuel. It was detained after an anonymous…
Alvaro Obregon: A caravan of thousands of migrants traveled through Mexico en route to the US border on Sunday, stopping in the southern Mexican town of Alvaro Obregon to spend Christmas Eve. The caravan is estimated to comprise some 6,000 people, including families and young children. It is believed to be the largest since June 2022….
New Delhi: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and the detection of a subvariant JN.1, India SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) chief Dr NK Arora said that no additional dose of vaccine is needed against the subvariant at present. Speaking to ANI about the current situation in the country, Dr Arora said, “I would say…
Islamabad : The Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and ex-Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cypher case, Dawn reported. The court directed the PTI leaders to submit surety bonds of Pakistan Rupee (PKR) 1 million each. The three-member bench, headed by Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and including…
