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This image grab from a UGC video posted on April 20, 2024, shows fire and smoke rising in the central province of Babylon after an alleged bombing overnight on an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups. | Photo Credit: AFP One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel’s war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul on Saturday, his office said. Erdogan has failed to establish a foothold as a mediator…
Imran Khan is facing more than 100 cases and has been lodged at the Adiala Jail (File) Lahore: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party on Saturday alleged that his nephew Hassan Niazi has been “abducted” from military custody and shifted to an undisclosed location to put pressure on him. The development comes days…
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The court adjourned the hearing until April 23 (File) Islamabad: A Pakistan court has accepted requests for a medical examination of the incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi and also directed an endoscopy for the former first lady at a private hospital within two days. Mr Khan, 71, has been…
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File photo of Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu. | Photo Credit: AP Less than a year after his election as President of the Maldives, incumbent Mohamed Muizzu will face his first major political test in Sunday’s parliamentary elections that will determine the extent of his control over parliament or People’s Majlis. In September 2023, Mr. Muizzu,…
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Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police arrested eight suspected militants in recent days believed to be part of a new cell linked to Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaida-linked group, authorities said on April 20. Police conducted raids in Central Sulawesi province between April 16 and April 18, said Agus Nugroho, the provincial police chief, adding that five suspects…
File photo Kyiv: Ukraine launched a wave of drones at Russia in the early hours of Saturday, setting a fuel depot ablaze, officials said, as both sides accused each other of deadly attacks on civilians. The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said cross-border Ukrainian attacks left at least three people dead, while a Russian strike…
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Vivian Balakrishnan said that police reports have been filed (File photo) Singapore: Singapore’s Indian-origin Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and several members of Parliament have received extortion letters containing fake photos of themselves in obscene situations. Balakrishnan said in a Facebook post that several other MPs and himself received letters containing a “fake distasteful image accompanied…
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said on April 20, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an…
A handout picture released by the Russian Defence Ministry shows a demonstration flight of military drones at a training range in the Moscow military district, in Russia, picture released April 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said Saturday, in attacks that…
