Islamabad, Apr 17 : Heavy rains and lightning caused havoc in different areas of Pakistan causing 71 deaths and injuries to 67 others since Saturday, an official told Xinhua Wednesday. An official from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was the worst-hit region where 32 people lost their lives...
Washington, Apr 17 : The White House on Tuesday announced the decision to impose new sanctions on Iran with measures including punishing the Islamic Republic’s missile and drone program. “In the coming days, the United States will impose new sanctions targeting Iran, including its missile and drone program as well as new sanctions against entities...
Gaza, Apr 16: Israel is seeking a ceasefire agreement with Hamas to secure the release of its hostages before resuming military operations in the Gaza Strip, Ezzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, said on Monday. In a statement sent to Xinhua, al-Rishq said that Israel wanted “a temporary agreement to release its prisoners,...
United Nations, Apr 15: Israel has the legal right to respond to Iran’s recent attack on the Jewish state since it “crossed every red line,” Israeli Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said. This attack crossed every red line, and Israel reserves the legal right to retaliate… Following such a massive and direct...
Ankara, Apr 15: US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns held a phone call with Turkish National Intelligence Organisation Director Ibrahim Kalin and asked him to act as a mediator in the conflict between Israel and Iran, Turkish media reported. Kalin and Burns also exchanged views on Gaza ceasefire negotiations, the TRT Haber broadcaster reported...
Washington, Apr 15 : The Israeli government was ready to immediately counterattack Iran but decided to postpone the operation after a call from US President Joe Biden, Israeli media reported. The majority of members of the Israeli war cabinet were in favour of not delaying the operation, but the situation was changed both by Biden’s...
United Nations, April 14 : The world is potentially facing a new acute crisis in the Middle East, the fate of which depends on the next steps of the parties involved, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said. “Now we potentially have a new acute crisis in the Middle East. Everything...
Tehran, April 14: Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations said the country’s military action against Israel was based on Article 51 of the UN Charter regarding the legitimate right to self-defense and in response to the deadly Israeli attack against the Iranian consulate in Syria, the official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday. The...
Tehran, Apr 14: Tehran has assured Ankara that it will not carry out new strikes on Israel if there is no response from the Jewish state, a Turkish diplomatic source told Sputnik. Earlier in the day, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian, during which the former...
Jerusalem, April 14: Iran has fired 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, including from Iraq and Yemen, The New York Times reported, citing two Israeli officials. On Saturday night, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a massive drone and missile attack on Israel in response to Israel’s airstrike on...
Tel Aviv, April 14: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran’s massive drone and missile attack had been repelled, and promised victory through joint efforts. “We intercepted, we stopped, together we will win,” Netanyahu said on X. On Saturday night, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a massive drone and missile attack on...
Tehran, April 14: Iran has pledged to carry out an immediate strike with redoubled force if Israel responds to the attack launched against the Jewish state on Saturday night, the Tasnim news agency reported. On Saturday night, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched drone and missile strikes on Israel in response to Israel’s airstrike on...
Tel Aviv, April 14 : More than a hundred drones launched by Iran have already been intercepted outside Israel’s airspace, Israeli radio Galatz reported, citing a security source. The report added that the military of the United States and the United Kingdom intercepted the drones. UNI
Islamabad, Apr 13: Three children were killed and one other was injured in a landmine blast in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, officials said. The incident happened in the tribal district of North Waziristan where the children stepped on the landmine while playing, and three out of them were killed right at the...
Moscow, April 11: The Russian armed forces have launched a massive strike on Ukraine’s fuel and energy facilities in response to attempts by Kiev to damage the Russian oil and gas industry and energy facilities, the Russian Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday. “In response to the attempts of the Kiev regime to cause damage...
Tokyo, April 11 : A pure gold bowl priced at about 10 million yen (about 65,000 U.S. dollars) was stolen from a Tokyo department store on Thursday, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item, local media reported. A store staff member noticed that the bowl was missing from its display around...
Jakarta, Apr 11: Seven people were reportedly killed with 15 others injured in a bus crash on a highway in the Indonesian province of Central Java on Thursday morning, police said. The bus carrying 34 people slid into a ditch on the Batang-Semarang highway near the regency of Kendal, said the provincial police spokesperson Stefanus...
Tehran, Apr 11 : Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, on Wednesday exchanged views on the latest developments in bilateral ties and the situation in Gaza. During a phone call, they also discussed other regional developments and exchanged greetings of the Eid al-Fitr, which...
Gaza, Apr 11 : Three sons of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, along with his three grandchildren, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City Wednesday. Hamas’ media office reported that the sons were killed by a strike on their car while they were driving in Al-Shati refugee camp west...
Jakarta, Apr 9 : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 hit Indonesia’s eastern province of West Papua on Tuesday, but did not trigger a tsunami warning, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. The agency initially reported the quake’s magnitude to be 6.1 before revising it. The earthquake occurred at 07:02 a.m. Jakarta...
Kiev, Apr 8 : Ukraine on Sunday denied the accusation of Kiev’s involvement in drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). “Ukraine is not involved in any armed provocations on the territory of the ZNPP,” Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence, was quoted as saying by the press service of the...