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A Chinese court on Monday (February 5, 2024) gave a suspended death sentence to Australian writer Yang Hengjun, five years after he was arrested on spying charges.
At least 10 policemen died and six others were injured after terrorists attacked Chaudhvan police station in Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan on Monday.
A bomb blast occurred outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) office in Pakistan's Balochistan region on Sunday.
Myanmar authorities have arrested six suspects for illegal possession of rockets in southern Myanmar's Bago region, official media reported on Sunday.
Pakistani police have registered a case against militants of the outlawed Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) for their alleged involvement in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast close to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in Saddar area of Karachi city.
At least six people were injured in a shooting incident in Denver, police said.
The US Embassy in Pakistan has issued a travel advisory where it advised citizens to remain vigilant since the nation is gearing up for the national polls on February 8.
A US woman from Minnesota was arrested for allegedly having sex with two 15-year-old boys at the same time at a hotel in January, media reports said.
Britain has issued a travel advisory urging people not to visit Afghanistan.
Tokyo: A fire broke out in the vicinity of a Japan Railway (JR) station in Tokyo on Sunday, affecting train services on part of the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line, with 800 passengers evacuated, according to local media reports.
Tokyo: A fire broke out in the vicinity of a Japan Railway (JR) station in Tokyo on Sunday, affecting train services on part of the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line, with 800 passengers evacuated, according to local media reports.
Gaza: Hamas has demanded the release of 3,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during the indirect talks on a fresh pause to fighting in the Gaza Strip, Al Arabiya news channel reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the talks.
Windhoek/IBNS/UNI: Namibian President Hage G. Geingob passed away early Sunday while receiving cancer treatment in a hospital in the capital city of Windhoek, the presidential office announced. He was 82.
Moscow/IBNS/UNI: Twenty bodies were pulled from under the rubble of what used to be a popular bakery in the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Sputnik.
Washington/IBNS: Incumbent US President Joe Biden won the Democratic primary in the US state of South Carolina, the first official nominating contest for the party, on Saturday.
Washington DC/IBNS: The United States and Britain Saturday carried out joint air raids in Yemen as a response to repeated attacks on shipping by Iran-backed Houthi rebels that have disrupted global trade.
Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan and his wife Bushra Khan have been sentenced to a seven-year prison and fined by a court on Saturday, which ruled that their marriage in 2018 violated the law, media reports said, citing his party.
The Interior Ministry in Balochistan has imposed Section 144 in Quetta for the next two days ahead of the national polls in Pakistan.
At least three persons were injured in a stabbing attack at Gare de Lyon railway station in southeastern Paris on Saturday.
Pakistan's Counter Terrorism Department on Saturday arrested five suspected terrorists while conducting different intelligence-based operations across the Punjab, media reports said.
The United States on Friday (February 2, 2024) conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against 85 targets linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups, officials confirmed.
Istanbul: Turkish authorities have formally arrested 25 individuals in relation to the recent church attack in Istanbul, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc announced on Friday.
The United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) in solidarity with the Joint Awami Action Committee (AAC) will hold protest in front of the Pakistan High Commission in London on Saturday to counter ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ observed by Pakistan.
At least 24 terrorists were killed by law enforcement personnel while conducting "firefights and sanitisation/clearance operations" which lasted for three days in Mach and Kolpur in Balochistan, media reports said.
One single-engine plane crashed into a mobile home park late Thursday in the US state of Florida with multiple homes catching fire and casualties feared, according to media reports.
Security forces have rescued a child from a group of kidnappers in the northern Jawzjan province and arrested three kidnappers, the state-run news agency Bakhtar reported on Friday.
Suspected radicals recently at least 80 Ahmadi graves in Daska city of Pakistan, just days before the country votes in the national polls.
South Korea on Friday claimed warring neighbour North Korea fired several cruise missiles off the west coast, media reports said.
At least one person died after 10 bomb and grenade attacks rocked different areas of Balochistan on Thursday, media reports said.
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