Pakistani officials say flash floods overnight have killed 30 people in northern Pakistan, near the Afghan border. Maghfirat Shah, the mayor of Chitral district, says heavy monsoon rains and flash floods overnight washed away a mosque and several houses in Arsun, an area of Chitral. A spokesman for the disaster management authority, Yousuf Zia, says search crews have recovered the […]
» Read moreAuthorities say that three days of heavy rain in southern China have left 50 people dead and 12 missing. The civil affairs department in central Hubei province said on Sunday that torrential rains caused the deaths of 27 people and left 12 missing since Thursday. Nearly 400,000 people have been evacuated or are in need of aid in the province. […]
» Read moreArmed militants killed 20 civilians after taking them hostage in a Bangladesh cafe overnight and many of the victims were hacked to death, an Army spokesman said on Saturday. “We’ve recovered 20 bodies. Most them had been brutally hacked to death with sharp weapons,” Army spokesman Brigadier-General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury told reporters, without giving the nationality of the victims. The […]
» Read moreTaliban militants launched a twin suicide attack on Thursday, targeting a convoy of buses carrying Afghan police cadets outside of the capital and killing 37 people, mostly policemen, and wounding 40, an Afghan official said. The attack took place in Paghman district, some 20 kilometers west of Kabul, according to Mousa Rahmati, the district governor of Paghman.
» Read moreRodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as President of the Philippines, with some hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he will undercut one of Asia’s liveliest democracies amid threats to kill criminals en masse. The 71-year-old former prosecutor and longtime mayor of southern Davao city won a resounding victory in May’s elections in his first […]
» Read moreSuicide attackers killed dozens and wounded more than 140 at Istanbul’s busy Ataturk Airport , as Turkish officials blamed Tuesday’s massacre at the international terminal on three suspected Islamic State group militants. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 36 were dead as well as the threesuicide bombers. Justice minister Bekir Bozdag said 147 were wounded. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier […]
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