Islamabad : Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is suffering from high blood pressure but has been refused permission to see his personal doctor, his party said Monday. Sharif was convicted in his absence overseas on corruption charges and arrested upon his return to...
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Kabul : The death toll from a suicide attack near Kabul international airport has risen to 23, the health ministry said Monday, with an AFP driver among the dead. At least 107 others were wounded in Sunday’s powerful explosion, which happened as scores of people were leaving the airport...
Hanoi : At least 10 people have died after floods spurred by Typhoon rains struck central and northern Vietnam, authorities said Saturday. The southeast Asian country is prone to monsoon storms and floods, which frequently claim hundreds of lives every year.
Typhoon Son Tinh — the third...
New Delhi : Some 78 female inmates of a jail in India’s financial capital have been hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning Friday, sources said. The prisoners of Byculla jail were rushed to the state-run J.J. Hospital when they complained of stomach pain, nausea, vomitting and diarrhea...
Sydney : Thousands of people marched across major Australian cities Saturday calling for an end to Canberra’s offshore detention of asylum-seekers. The government sends anyone who tries to enter the country by sea to camps on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island or on Nauru in the Pacific...
C0l0mbo : Sri Lanka will on Monday begin sittings of a special high court which has been set up to try high-profile bribery and corruption cases including those against members of the former government, local media reported Sunday.
Around 100 state attorneys are to be recruited to the Attorney...
TEHRAN : The United States is increasingly isolated in its move to reimpose sanctions on Tehran after quitting the international nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday, vowing to resist American “plots”.
“The path chosen by the Islamic Republic of Iran is...
Pakistan :Pakistan was in shock Saturday after a suicide blast killed 128 people, shaking confidence in security just as the dramatic arrest of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif ratcheted political tensions higher ahead of nationwide polls. Sharif’s highly-anticipated return from London and...
Islambad, Pakisthan : At least 105 people including a political leader were killed and over 150 others injured when a suicide blast hit a political meeting in Mastung district of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Friday, officials said.
Confirming the death toll, caretaker home...
Tokyo, Japan : The toll in record rains that have devastated parts of Japan rose Thursday to 199, with dozens still missing, a top government spokesman said, AFP reported.Yoshihide Suga said search operations were continuing after the worst weather-related disaster in Japan in over three...
