Category: World

The overnight attack on a police training academy in Pakistan’s restive Quetta city has left over 60 cadets besides three militants dead, with 118 injured, making it one of the deadliest strikes in the country this year. The attack on the Police Training College on Saryab Road in the Balochistan province capital began at around 11.10pm last night, triggering an […]

At least seven people were killed and 94 others injured when a powerful explosion destroyed a prefabricated house and damaged nearby buildings in China on Monday. 24The explosion occurred at 2 p.m. at Xinmin Town, Fugu County, in Shaanxi Province.

Russia’s aviation agency says 19 people have died after a helicopter carrying oil workers crashed in Siberia. The Federal Air Transport Agency says in its statement Saturday that 16 of the 19 passengers on board and all three crew members died in Friday’s crash in northern Russia. The Mi-8 helicopter was traveling from Vankor to Staryi Urengoi in the Yamalo-Nenets […]

Pakistan has struck a major deal with the Nigerian air force to sell 10 indigenously-made advanced trainer aircraft. Nigerian Air Vice Marshal Iya Ahmed Abdullahi and Chairman of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Air Marshal Arshad Malik signed the contract on Friday in this regard in Abuja,” PAF spokesman Air Commodore Syed Mohammad Ali said. The contract includes operational training and […]

A strong 6.2 magnitude-earthquake hit western Japan Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami risk. The quake, at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), struck shortly after 2:00 pm (0500 GMT) in Tottori prefecture. Initially, the USGS had pegged the quake’s magnitude at 6.6 before downgrading it. Public broadcaster NHK quoted local officials as […]

A Pakistani anti-terror court directed police on Friday to arrest cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahirul Qadri by November 17 in connection with an attack on the Pakistan Television headquarters during a political protest in 2014.