Category: World

Malala Yousafzai is using her honorary Canadian citizenship to call on the country’s leaders to take real action to improve educational opportunities for girls. The teenage Nobel prize winner spoke to the Canadian Parliament after becoming an honorary citizen on Wednesday. She asked lawmakers to make education for girls a top priority when it hosts the G7 summit next year. […]

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the center of Mindanao island in the Philippines on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.0, struck at 5:21 a.m. on Wednesday (2121 GMT on Tuesday). It was very shallow, at a depth of 4 miles (6 km), which would have amplified its effect. Its epicenter was 47 miles […]

At least six people have been killed in battle between government forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, Philippine officials said . The area is far from the extremists’ southern jungle bases and in a region where the U.S. government has warned the gunmen may be conducting kidnappings. Military and police officials said a soldier and […]

Ten people were killed in an explosion at a metro station in St. Petersburg on Monday, the authorities said. The blast happened in a train in between two stations, a source in Russia’s emergency services said. “There was one blast in one site in between [stations] as the train arrived at the Technology Institute station from the Sennaya [loshchad] station,” […]

At least 22 people were killed and 50 others injured on Friday in a suicide blast outside a Shia imambargah at a busy market in Pakistan’s restive northwest tribal region. The bomber driving a car blew himself up near the main gate of the imambargah in the central bazar of Parachinar, Kurram Agency. At least 22 people were killed and […]

A policeman was stabbed, an assailant shot and several people injured today close to Britain’s Houses of Parliament in what police said they were treating as a terrorist incident. Reuters reporters inside the building heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards a Reuters photographer said he saw at least a dozen people injured on Westminster Bridge, next to parliament. His photographs […]