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Arbil, Iraq, Aug 24 (AFP/APP): Three members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, authorities said. “A Turkish army drone struck a PKK vehicle, killing an official and two fighters” of the group — […]

SOUTH KOREA, August 24 (Internews): South Korean Joint Chief of Staff said Thursday that the military detected a North Korean projectile likely a space rocket as Pyongyang earlier indicated Japanese Coast Guards about firing a satellite into space once again. In a statement to reporters, […]

CALIFORNIA, August 24 (Internews): Three people were killed in a shooting on Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar and the shooter also died, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said. The shooting was reported at around 7pm at Cook’s Corner in rural Trabuco Canyon in Orange […]

ISLAMABAD, AUG 24 (ONLINE): Pakistan’s Ambassador to United States Masood Khan has strongly condemned the horrendous incidents of Jaranwala and said that perpetrators of this heinous crime would be brought to justice. Addressing leaders of all faiths and denominations in Washington, he said that entire […]

Moscow, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Russian state-run news agencies on Wednesday said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia’s army in June, was on the list of passengers of a plane that crashed. “The plane that crashed in […]

Afghanistan, Aug. 23 (Xinhua/APP): Three projects were completed in east Afghanistan’s Logar Province to provide locals with access to transportation facilities, said a statement of the provincial police headquarters’ public relations office on Wednesday. According to the statement, the projects with a cost of 24.5 […]

Tokyo, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation would begin […]

Bangkok, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Thailand’s former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was moved from prison to a police hospital on Wednesday, officials said, a day after he was jailed on his return from 15 years in exile. The 74-year-old, twice Thai prime minister and ousted in a […]

Tripoli, Aug 22 (AFP/APP): Russian military officials including Moscow’s deputy defence minister arrived in Libya on Tuesday after receiving an invitation from pro-Moscow military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Haftar, who backs the country’s eastern administration, is close to Russia’s private Wagner mercenary group, whose troops guard […]