Muddy water spilled onto streets and into homes on in a new round of unusually heavy rains that has killed at least a dozen people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital Lima. The intense rains and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima, a desert city […]
» Read moreFour suspected militants from a banned Islamist group were killed during a police raid on a building in southeastern Bangladesh. Senior police official Shafiqul Islam said on Thursday that they had completed an overnight operation after cordoning off the building where the suspects used to stay in Sitakunda in Chittagong district. Bangladesh has experienced a surge in attacks by suspected […]
» Read moreA strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale today hit the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. According to National Centre for Seismology, a unit of Ministry of Earth Sciences, the quake, whose epicentre was in the Nicobar islands region, occurred at 8:21 am at a depth of 10 km. However, it was not so powerful as to merit a tsunami […]
» Read moreA bus speeding away from the scene of a hit-and-run accident plowed into dozens of street musicians in the Haitian city of Gonaives on Sunday, killing a total of 34 people, officials said. Fifteen people also were injured in the incident in Gonaives, a city of some 300,000 people located about 150 km northwest of the capital Port-au-Prince. “First, the […]
» Read morePakistan is set to conduct its first national census in 19 years which will begin on Wednesday with the assistance of over 200,000 troops. Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor and Minister of State for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb addressed a joint conference about preparation for the sixth census, which will be conducted in two phases and will be completed on […]
» Read moreTwo men shot dead two people and seriously injured a third today at a cafe in Basel, north-west Switzerland, police said. “Two men came into Cafe 56” around 8.15 pm local time “and fired several rounds of shots,” police said in a statement, without providing information on a possible motive. “Two customers were killed. Another is in a critical condition.” […]
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