Category: World

The roof of a church collapsed on to worshippers in southern Nigeria on Saturday, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, according to a hospital director. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing after the incident, Etete Peters, medical director of the University of Uyo teaching hospital, told the Associated Press. The Reigners Bible Church […]

The death toll from the bombings outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul has risen to 38 people, including 30 police officers, Turkey’s interior minister said on Sunday, adding that Kurdish militants were believed to be responsible. “According to the latest information we have received, 38 of our nation’s children have reached martyrdom after last night’s cruel attack,” Suleyman Soylu told […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday that as many as 200 more American troops are being sent to Syria to help Kurdish and Arab fighters capture the Islamic State group’s key stronghold of Raqqa. The extra troops will include special operations forces and are in addition to 300 U.S. troops already authorised for the effort to recruit, organise, […]

The World Bank has cancelled a $100 million loan to Pakistan for a natural gas efficiency project due to no progress in achieving the development objectives and a lack of interest on the part of the gas distribution company. The project, which was to be carried out by Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) in its distribution areas in Karachi, interior […]

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane, carrying 47 people, crashed on Wednesday on a domestic flight from the mountainous northern city of Chitral to Islamabad, aviation authorities said. Flight PK661 crashed near the town of Havelian in Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the civil aviation authority told AFP. An earlier statement from the airline said the ATR-42 turboprop aircraft […]