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TEHRAN, Iran – January 29 (ONLINE) Iran’s defence ministry has reported several drone attacks on a military plant in the country’s central city of Isfahan. The attacks were “unsuccessful” and there were no casualties, the ministry said in a statement early on Sunday. “One of […]

Tehran, Jan 29 (AFP/APP):A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran overnight, killing at least three people and injuring more than 800 in the region near the border with Turkey, state officials and media said Sunday. Panicked residents fled their homes as buildings collapsed and rubble crushed […]

London, Jan 29 (AFP/APP): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday fired Conservative party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi after an inquiry into Zahawi’s tax affairs found a “serious breach” of ministerial rules, the government said. “As a result, I have informed you of my decision to […]

New Delhi, Jan 28 (AFP/APP): Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises around 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of the capital New Delhi, police at the crash site told AFP. “We have located the wreckage of […]

ISLAMABAD 28 Jan (Online): The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday condemned “in the strongest terms” the act of desecration of the Holy Quran by Danish politician Rasmus Paludan a day before, according to an official statement. Having strongly condemned recent such incidents in Sweden and […]

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, Jan 27 (AFP/APP): Israel and Palestinian freedom fighters in the Gaza Strip traded missile fire Friday, raising fears of a further escalation after one the deadliest army raids in the occupied West Bank in years. Israel said in response to the […]

ISTANBUL, Jan 27 (AA/APP): South Korea said on Friday that it will seek to “normalize” relations with the North through “direct and indirect” contacts. “While the South will sternly counter North Korea’s provocations through cooperation based on the strong Seoul-Washington alliance, the government will also […]

Madrid, Jan 25 (AFP/APP): Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of being behind a recent letter bombing campaign that targeted the prime minister and the Ukrainian embassy, the interior ministry said Wednesday. A 74-year-old Spanish citizen was arrested in Miranda de Ebro in northern […]

Washington, Jan 24 (AFP/APP):The first secret documents turned up in Joe Biden’s former private office and home back in November, but it was January before the White House publicly admitted the embarrassing discovery — under pressure from a steady drip of media revelations. Since then, […]

KATHMANDU 15 JAN (Online): At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said, in the small Himalayan country’s worst crash in nearly five years. Hundreds of rescue workers continued to scour […]