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.
A man shot dead 12 of his family members and injured three others on Saturday morning in the southeastern Iranian province of Kerman, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's team members on Saturday demanded his body should be handed over to his family amid widespread criticisms by key world leaders against President Vladimir Putin over his death.
Tokyo/UNI: Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to be released on Feb. 18, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Saturday.
Washington DC/ IBNS: US President Joe Biden Friday said he was "not surprised" but "outraged" over the news of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death.
Toronto/IBNS: Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria has announced that the province would ban tolls on all provincial highways, including the recently uploaded Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
A US school teacher was arrested for allegedly giving students an assignment where he asked them to come up with different “ways to kill” one of his students, media reports said.
Russian opposition leader and president Vladimir Putin's critic Alexei Navalny has died at the Arctic prison colony, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will stage a demonstration against alleged rigging in the general polls in Peshawar city of Pakistan on Saturday.
The White House has expressed concerns over the allegations that the recently held national polls in Pakistan were not performed in a free and fair manner.
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has claimed people of his region are fed up with Pakistani occupation and want it to merge with India.
The UK cell of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) recently announced an awareness campaign for the atrocities committed against the Baloch community in Pakistan,media reports said.
An Indian-origin techie has been identified as the suspect behind the killing of his wife and four-year-old twins before turning the gun on himself in the US state of California, police said on Friday.
The White House on Thursday reacted to the recent attacks on Indian students in the US and said there is no excuse for violence based on race.
