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Armenia says three dead in border clashes with Azerbaijan

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Yerevan, Jan 12 (AFP/APP):Armenia said Wednesday that the number of its soldiers killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan had risen to three, in the most serious outbreak of fighting between the ex-Soviet adversaries in months. Azerbaijan previously said one of its soldiers died in the […]

UK PM faces new ‘lockdown party’ hangover

Posted on January 12, 2022 by News Desk

London, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday faced a furious backlash over new claims of a breach of coronavirus restrictions by his team on top of a slew of recent scandals. London’s Metropolitan Police said they were in contact with the Cabinet […]

UK police review 1969 Murdoch-linked kidnap murder

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

London, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):London police said Tuesday they were reviewing new information in the 1969 kidnap-murder of Muriel McKay, who was mistaken for media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s wife, and whose body had never been found. The Metropolitan Police said McKay’s family had contacted them with […]

UN’s Guterres ‘saddened’ by reports of deadly strike in Tigray: spokesman

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

New York, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):UN chief Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned” over reports of a deadly airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, his spokesman said Monday, in the international body’s first comment on an attack which rebels said left 56 people dead. The Tigray People’s Liberation […]

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

North Korea-January 11 (Online): North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile from land towards the East Sea on Tuesday. In a statement, South Korea’s military said it detected a suspected ballistic missile. The launch was also reported by Japan’s coast guard saying the North had […]

UN chief expresses sympathies with Murree tragedy victims

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (APP):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday expressed his condolences on the death of 23 people after a deadly snowstorm trapped them in their vehicles as tens of thousands of tourists thronged Pakistan’s hill station of Murree. “As in any incident and tragic […]

11 crew held on ship hijacked by Yemen rebels: UAE

Posted on January 11, 2022 by News Desk

United Nations, United States, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):A ship hijacked by Yemeni rebels in the Red Sea has 11 crew on board from five countries, the United Arab Emirates told the United Nations Security Council president on Monday. Seven of the crew are Indian and the […]

Teen arrested in Sweden after two injured in school knife attack

Posted on January 11, 2022 by News Desk

Stockholm, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):A teenage boy was arrested in southern Sweden on Monday after wounding a student and a teacher with a knife, police said, with media reporting the suspect had links to a similar attack in August. Police were alerted to the school in […]

Malaysian villager killed in tiger attack

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Kuala Lumpur, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):An indigenous Malaysian villager has been killed in a tiger attack, with government rangers shooting dead the critically endangered creature after it also charged them, authorities said. The 59-year-old victim, Anek Along, was attacked Friday near the town of Gua Musang […]

Kazakh leader says unrest was ‘attempted coup d’etat’

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Monday characterised days of historic unrest in his Central Asian country as a coup attempt and vowed his security services would never shoot peaceful protesters. “Armed militants who were waiting in the wings joined the protests. […]

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Armenia says three dead in border clashes with Azerbaijan

UK PM faces new ‘lockdown party’ hangover

UK police review 1969 Murdoch-linked kidnap murder

UN’s Guterres ‘saddened’ by reports of deadly strike in Tigray: spokesman

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile

UN chief expresses sympathies with Murree tragedy victims

11 crew held on ship hijacked by Yemen rebels: UAE

Teen arrested in Sweden after two injured in school knife attack

Malaysian villager killed in tiger attack

Kazakh leader says unrest was ‘attempted coup d’etat’

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