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The UN human rights chief has expressed deep regret over the execution of a prisoner in the United States on Thursday night through the country’s first-ever use of nitrogen asphyxiation as a method of implementing the death penalty.
At least two teens were shot dead during a shooting incident in Chicago's Loop area on Friday (January 26, 2024).
Tehran: Pakistan's Ambassador to Iran, Muhammad Mudassir Tipu, left Islamabad on Friday for Iran's capital to resume his diplomatic duties, according to Iran's official news agency, IRNA.
Vancouver/IBNS: Preliminary report released by the BC Coroners Service has confirmed that at least 2,511 people died in British Columbia in 2023 — the largest number of drug-related deaths ever reported to the agency — due to intake of toxic, unregulated drugs.
Jerusalem/IBNS/UNI: Israeli tanks have targeted Al-Amal hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, resulting in several injuries, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said in a statement on Friday.
Adult film actress Jesse Jane and her boyfriend Brett Hasenmueller were found dead at their home in Moore, Oklahoma, media reports said.
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), has announced a plan to release around 54,600 tons of nuclear-contaminated water from the facility into the ocean in fiscal 2024.
Six among a group of approximately 61 heavily disguised people boarding a train in Sydney were arrested and taken to the police station following a police operation on Friday, said the Police Force in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW).
A Spanish court has acquitted an Indian-British man who landed himself in trouble after he joked to friends about blowing up a flight from London Gatwick to Menorca.
Attacks against shipping in the Red Sea by Houthis are devastating for global trade and supply chains, already reeling under the impacts of the war in Ukraine and climate change-linked conditions in the Panama Canal, said the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD, on Thursday.
A British-Indian student is facing trial in Spain after he was accused of causing public disorder by sending a Snapchat message where he joked about blowing up a plane in which he was flying.
Amsterdam: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will decide whether to issue an order for Israel to impose emergency measures in response to South Africa's claims that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is a state-sponsored genocide.
Beijing: Taiwan will never be a country, and no separatist activities seeking "Taiwan independence" or attempts by foreign forces to split China will ever succeed, Chinese Defense Spokesperson Wu Qian said on Thursday.
Houthi authorities in Yemen on Wednesday (January 24, 2024) have ordered UN and other humanitarian staff holding US and UK passports to leave the country within a month.
In just a matter of years, Africa has become the “global epicentre of terrorism”, with groups such as Da’esh, Al-Qaida and their affiliates exploiting local conflicts and fragilities to serve their own ends, the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday, calling for violent extremism to be rooted out.
North Korea on Thursday (January 25, 2024) test-fired a new strategic cruise missile named 'Pulhwasal-3-31'.
Nine people were killed and 75 injured on Wednesday in a direct hit on a training centre turned shelter in southern Gaza run by UNRWA, the UN agency that assists Palestinians, according to initial reports.
A policeman and two labourers were killed during a terrorist attack on Abaa Shaheed police check post in Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan on Tuesday.
New York/UNI: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday the country has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after the downing of a Russian plane carrying captured Ukrainian soldiers.
The Federal Court of Canada has rebuked the Justin Trudeau government over the use of emergency powers to suppress the "freedom convoy" protests in 2022 and called it "unjustified and disproportionate".
Baghdad: Hashd Shaabi, a member of the Iraqi government-backed paramilitary forces, was killed and two others were wounded by U.S. airstrikes near the Iraqi-Syrian border and the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday.
Nanchang: The death toll from a building fire in the city of Xinyu in east China's Jiangxi Province on Wednesday afternoon has risen to 39, local authorities said.
A Russian Il-76 military plane crashed with suspected 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Belgorod Region of Russia on Wednesday (January 24, 2024), media reports said.
A former US school teacher in Arkansas has pleaded guilty to having sex with a high school boy 20 to 30 times, police said on Wednesday (January 24, 2024).
The United States on Wednesday said it conducted strikes on three facilities used by 'Iran-backed' militias in Iraq.
At least six passengers died after a small commuter plane which was carrying them to a remote mine in Canada's far north crashed shortly after takeoff on Tuesday.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has defeated former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and strong contestant Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire Republican primary, multiple U.S. media organisations projected Tuesday night.
Wellington: The New Zealand government decided on Tuesday to send a small defence team to the Middle East to safeguard Red Sea shipping, but the country's opposition party said the deployment will further inflame tensions in the region.
Three people have died in a private helicopter crash in Canada's British Columbia, the Northern Escape Heli Skiing company that owns the aircraft said in a statement provided by the CTV news broadcaster.
Afghan Cultural Association (AKIS) and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) demonstrated outside the Pakistan Embassy in Vienna recently.
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