Four Israeli soldiers were killed when they were run down by a truck in Jerusalem on Sunday in what police were treating as a deliberate attack, a medic at the scene said. Arie Jaffe, of the United Hatzalah emergency service, said the driver was also killed in the incident in west Jerusalem. The bus driver said they had been on […]
» Read moreAn Islamist extremist accused of being one the masterminds of last year’s deadly siege at a Bangladesh cafe was killed during a pre-dawn raid on Friday in the capital Dhaka, police said. The bodies of Nurul Islam Marzan and another suspected extremist were found after officers raided a property in Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar neighbourhood, a spokesman for the Dhaka Metropolitan […]
» Read morePakistan has released 218 Indian fishermen on Thursday detained in the past 12 months. Senior officials said that this is a goodwill gesture aimed at confidence building measures. This is the second batch of Indian fishermen released by Pakistan in less than two weeks. Pakistan had earlier released 220 Indian fishermen on December 25 last year. The release was marred […]
» Read moreA moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.7 on the richter scale and epicentred in Tripura jolted the country’s northeast Tuesday afternoon, triggering landslides in the hill state and leaving a woman dead and four others injured. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the temblor which occurred at 1439 hrs was in Dhalai district in Tripura at a […]
» Read moreAn attack by members of one crime gang on rival inmates touched off a riot at a prison in the northern state of Amazonas, leaving at least 56 dead, including several who were beheaded or dismembered in the worst bloodshed at a Brazilian prison since 1992. Authorities said the riot that raged from Sunday afternoon into Monday morning grew out […]
» Read moreIn a breakthrough in the long-running fishermen issue between India and Sri Lanka, both sides agreed to release fishermen in each other’s custody on Monday. Following a ministerial meeting, which was attended by Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Radha Mohan Singh and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Amaraweera, Colombo also agreed to “consider” releasing of Indian fishing boats in its custody. […]
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