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At least 25 people were killed and 10 others injured as a landslide struck a village in the Norgaram district of east Afghanistan's Nuristan province on Sunday, district Governor Qari Habibullah Sabir said on Monday.
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) and California-based EpiSci company are developing a software tool to detect hypersonic missiles in low Earth orbit using satellite data, media reported.
The stationhouse master (SHO) of the Haroonabad City Police Station in Pakistan has been suspended from service while four other police officials were booked on charges of keeping a person in illegal custody and torturing him.
Rights activists on Sunday demonstrated against the murder of activist Hidayat Lohar outside the local press club in Pakistan's Hyderabad city, media reports said.
Ameer Balaj Tipu, a prominent figure in Lahore's underworld and owner of a goods transport network, was shot dead in a wedding ceremony in Pakistan's Lahore city on Sunday.
An ambush in Papua New Guinea's remote Highlands region, which is witnessing a major escalation of tribal fighting, has left at least 64 people dead, media reports said on Monday.
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has said it detected seven Chinese military aircraft, five naval vessels, and one balloon around the country between Friday and Saturday, media reports said.
Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia on Sunday wrote her first social media post ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin's critic and the country's key opposition leader died in prison, an incident which triggered widespread criticism of the government.
A Pakistani citizen, who recently came from abroad, fell victim to a robbery outside his house in Karachi city recently.
A four-party alliance on Sunday protested against alleged rigging in the recently held national polls by blocking roads in Balochistan, media reports said.
Unknown men shot dead a man in Pakistan's Karachi city on Saturday.
A security personnel and nine other terrorists were killed in two different intelligence-based operations in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region on Saturday.
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has sent back five people who arrived in Shapuree Dwip from Myanmar on Saturday.
Rights group OVD-Info on Saturday claimed more than 400 people were detained by Russian authorities for paying tributes to President Vladimir Putin's key opponent Alexei Navalny across various cities in the country.
A case has been filed against Madrasa managing committee chairman in Mongla region of Bangladesh for allegedly raping two children.
Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned home after he was released from prison on parole on Saturday, ending his six-month detention.
Unknown attackers stabbed to death a Rohingya man at Ukhia’s Jamtoli camp in Bangladesh's Cox’s Bazar region on Saturday, media reports said.
At least two minor siblings died due to an unknown virus at Chuniapara village in Bangladesh's Rajshahi area after eating Boroi (jujube), media reports said.
Marco Troper, 19, son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead inside the dormitory of the University of California, Berkeley, media reports said.
Washington/IBNS/UNI: Four anti-ship missiles were fired from areas controlled by the Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, in Yemen, with at least three of them targeting Danish merchant ship MT Pollux in the Red Sea, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday.
Manila/IBNS/UNI: The death toll from a landslide in the southern Philippine province of Davao de Oro has reached 98, media reports said on Saturday, citing local authorities.
A senior Pakistani bureaucrat has alleged that the results of the February 8 general elections were “manipulated” under his watch.
A mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)'s Kotli region has been vandalised by a group of 50 persons recently.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead human rights activist Hidayat Lohar in Sindh region of Pakistan, media reports said.
Workers and supporters of various political parties are continuing their protest in Balochistan over alleged rigging charges in the February 8 general polls.
The Pakistani Supreme Court has scheduled for hearing a petition which seeks a declaration of the February 8 general polls in the country as null and void.
Afghan women fear arrest, harassment and further punishment whenever a new Taliban decree is announced, according to a new multi-agency UN report issued on Friday based on an extensive survey of women across the country.
A Taliban top leader has said his administration will never recognize the Durand Line as its official border with Pakistan.
One firefighter died and several were hospitalised following a gas explosion in Sterling, US, on Friday evening, local media reported.
Two were killed in a shooting at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) on Friday.
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