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Ottawa, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): Canadian police scoured Saskatchewan and neighboring provinces on Monday in a massive manhunt for two fugitives suspected of carrying out a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded 15. The killings in the James Smith Cree Nation Indigenous community and […]

NEW YORK, Sep 06 (APP):While drawing attention to the huge losses resulting from the deadly floods in Pakistan, Ambassador Munir Akram, the permanent Pakistani representative to the UN, has urged the world community to act in solidarity to combat the worsening effects of climate change […]

Nairobi, Sept 5 (AFP/APP):The UN’s humanitarian chief warned on Monday that drought-ravaged Somalia was on the brink of famine and time was running out to save lives. “Famine is at the door and we are receiving a final warning,” Martin Griffiths, head of the UN’s […]

Washington, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): One person was killed and rescue crews were searching for nine others after a small plane crashed along the coast of the US state of Washington on Sunday, the coast guard said. The US Coast Guard said it received a report […]

Nairobi, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): Raila Amolo Odinga has spent most of his adult life in politics, including eight years in prison as a pro-democracy campaigner, but despite five attempts has never achieved his goal of becoming Kenya’s president. The 77-year-old on Monday lost his fifth […]

NEW YORK, Sep 03 (Online): The United Nations has intensified drive to distribute relief materials to flood-hit people in Pakistan. UN Spokesperson Eri Kaneko in a briefing in New York said that the world body has also deployed 14 mobile clinics to provide health care […]

TEXAS 02 Sep (Online): A Google employee who became a high-profile opponent of the tech giant’s $1 billion artificial intelligence and surveillance contract with the Israeli military announced her resignation. Ariel Koren, a marketing manager with the company, cited what she said is its creation […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 02 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Friday’s attack at a mosque in western Afghanistan that left 18 people dead and 23 injured, according to a UN spokesperson. “The Secretary-General condemns today’s attack and conveys his deep condolences to the families […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 03 (APP):Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack on Guzargah Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan in which many precious lives of innocent people have been lost with several injuries. “The Government and people of Pakistan extend deepest sympathies and sincere condolences to […]

Srinagar, Sept 02 (ONLINE): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian trooper died under mysterious circumstances in Jammu district. According to MEDIA reports, the Indian trooper identified as Anil Kumar died under mysterious circumstances in the Nagrota Military Cantonment area on the outskirts […]