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The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released on Tuesday (April 2, 2024) by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of the European Union.
At least 29 people died after a fire broke out at a nightclub located in a 16-storey building in Turkey's capital city Istanbul, media reports said.
Cairo: Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi took the constitutional oath on Tuesday as president of Egypt for a third consecutive term in office, serving until 2030, the state-run Nile TV reported.
Istanbul/IBNS: At least 29 people were killed as fire broke out at a 16-storey residential building that housed a nightclub in Istanbul on Tuesday, media reports said.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Central Punjab general secretary Hammad Azhar has indicated that the party leaders, workers and supporters will participate in street protests in the upcoming days following Ramadan to highlight high electricity bills and other public matters.
The Hindu community and traders in Dera Murad Jamali in Pakistan recently protested to demand the immediate recovery of the abducted Hindu girl Priya Kumari.
Hundreds of teachers, along with members of staff of the Balochistan University, demonstrated and staged a sit-in outside the Balochistan Assembly, demanding salaries, media reports said.
The World Uyghur Congress recently pointed out that Uyghur families are facing possible forceful deportation from Pakistan to China or Afghanistan after Ramadan.
A child died and two others were injured in a shooting incident in a shooting incident in Finland's Vantaa city on Tuesday (April 2, 2024).
Armed men threw a hand grenade close to the office of an intelligence agency in Pakistan's Kharan town on Monday, media reports said.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has blamed Israel for carrying out an airstrike which damaged the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus on Monday.
Washington: Authorities in the US city of Baltimore are working to open a temporary alternative route for commercial vessels following the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Key Bridge Response 2024 Unified Command said.
Authorities in Pakistan's Karachi city have banned the use of drone cameras for two months in the District South of the port city following the attack on Chinese nationals last week.
Pakistan witnessed 432 violence-linked fatalities and 370 injuries among civilians security personnel, and outlaws, during the first half of the year.
At least two security personnel were killed and four others hurt after a bomb disposal squad of the Pakistani Army was targeted in Ankara Dam area on Sunday, media reports said.
A poll released by a civil society campaign organisation indicates that the ruling Conservative Party might face defeat in the general polls likely to be held later this year.
Two of the three people detained in Russia's Muslim-majority Dagestan Republic suspected of plotting to commit terrorist crimes are of Central Asian origin, a local law enforcement source told Sputnik on Monday.
At least nine children died after an unexploded ordnance left over from past wars went off in east Afghanistan's Ghazni province, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Monday.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday (April 1, 2024) said it has withdrawn its troops from Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital, two weeks after it was raided.
Jerusalem/UNI: A knife-wielding Palestinian teenager stabbed and seriously wounded three people in a shopping mall in Israel on Sunday before he was shot dead by police officers, said the Israeli police in a statement.
Police have rounded up 50 suspected miscreants after they attacked an outlet of the American fast food chain KFC in Mirpur region of Pakistan recently.
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a hernia surgery on Sunday after it was diagnosed during a routine checkup.
Bodies of eight Chinese migrants were found on a beach in south Mexico after the boat in which they were travelling capsized, media reports said on Sunday.
A petroleum company employee died after a roadside blast occurred in Pakistan's Harnai district in Balochistan on Saturday.
Firefighters fought for hours to bring the fire that broke out at an army ammunition depot near the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday evening under control, officials said on Sunday.
A Presbyterian Church in Gujar Khan city of Pakistan was gutted just hours after the Friday service, media reports said.
Oklahoma/IBNS/UNI: In another major water accident in the US within a week, a barge has hit a bridge in Oklahoma, the state's Highway Patrol said.
Cairo/IBNS/UNI: The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and France opposed any Israeli operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and called for an immediate ceasefire in the enclave, the Egyptian State Information Service said.
Jakarta/IBNS/UNI: Over 130 families have been evacuated after an explosion at a military ammunition warehouse near the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday evening, an official said on Sunday.
Washington/IBNS/UNI: US President Joe Biden has won North Dakota's Democratic presidential primary, the state party announced Saturday.
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