A car mowed down pedestrians on Flinders Street in the Australian city of Melbourne, and the “extent of injuries” is still unknown, Victoria Police said. The Associated Press, a news agency, said 14 people were injured. One of them, police confirmed, was a pre-school aged boy with head injuries. He and another person were in critical condition. Police said two […]
» Read moreRussia’s transportation minister says flights between Moscow and the Egyptian capital of Cairo are to resume in February after a two-year hiatus. Moscow suspended flights to Egypt after an Islamic State bomb brought down a Russian airliner over Sinai in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board. The attack decimated Egypt’s vital tourism industry. Maxim Sokolov said in comments […]
» Read moreA suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 13 police officers, officials said. Police spokesman Major Mohamed Hussein said the attacker, with explosives strapped to his body, infiltrated the General Kahiye Police Training Academy and struck during a police parade. Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of […]
» Read moreLondon mayor Sadiq Khan will be arriving in Mumbai on Sunday as part of his first official tour to three Indian cities to promote the British capital’s resilience and strengths post-Brexit. Apart from Mumbai, Mr. Khan would be visiting Delhi and Amritsar in India and then fly to Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi in Pakistan on his six-day tour to six […]
» Read morePakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf has called himself the “biggest supporter” of the Lashkar-e- Taiba and its founder Hafiz Saeed and asserted that he backs the terror group’s role in “suppressing” the Indian Army in Kashmir. Musharraf, the 74-year-old retired General who is on self-exile in Dubai, said Mumbai attack mastermind Saeed “is involved in Kashmir” and he supports their […]
» Read moreSenior Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, once seen as a leading contender to the throne, was freed after reaching an “acceptable settlement agreement” with authorities paying more than $1 billion, a Saudi official said on Wednesday. Prince Miteb, who was head of the elite National Guard, was among dozens of Royal family members, Ministers and current and former senior officials […]
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