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SUDAN, August 24 (Internews): People trapped in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman say civilians are being deliberately targeted in shelling by the warring parties. A woman who had been helping wounded soldiers was killed along with her three children and […]

PARIS, August 24 (Internews): It wasn’t just your carousell, worldwide baggage handling rates were at their worst in a decade last year. Mishandling rates reached a 10-year-high at the end of 2022 as airports and airline workers scrambled to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 […]

TOKYO, August 24 (Internews): The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean a controversial step, but a milestone in Japan’s battle with the growing radioactive water stockpile. In […]

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 […]