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A plainclothes police officer (L) surveys the site of an attack at the Pakistan Stocks Exchange entrance in Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility in a post on Twitter but Reuters was not able to verify the authenticity of the claim and spokesmen for the group were not available for comment. “We […]

President Donald Trump’s criticism of NFL protests doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Evan Vucci, AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump denied Sunday that he knew about an intelligence report that concluded Russia had paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill American troops serving in Afghanistan. Facing strong criticism from Democrats, Trump said on […]

More than 500,000 people worldwide are now known to have succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. The number of confirmed infections has meanwhile crossed the 10 million threshold.  The US remains the most bereaved country with 125,804 fatalities. It also accounts for a quarter of all cases worldwide. It is […]

People gather during a demonstration called “Justice for Shukri Abdi” at Whitehall in London, Britain, June 27, 2020. REUTERS Thousands joined protests across England to mark a year since the death of a 12-year-old Somali refugee girl who drowned in a river in the north of the country. Shukri Yahye-Abdi, who came to Britain in […]

US President Donald Trump is seen flanked by top White House coronavirus task force officials Deborah Birx (L) and Anthony Fauci (R), on May 15, 2020 MANDEL NGAN AFP/File  President Donald Trump faced mounting bipartisan pressure Sunday to set an example by wearing a face mask, as his health secretary warned the “window is closing” to […]

People walk at a market in Leh, the joint capital of the union territory of India’s Ladakh, June 27, 2020. (AFP Photo)  India registered its biggest surge in coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with 19,906 new patients Sunday, the Health Ministry said. The tally of cases has now reached 528,859 in the country. […]

Test kits sit on a table at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site on June 26, 2020, in Houston, Texas.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/David J. Phillip The US reported its highest one-day increase in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday as authorities across Europe urged people to respect bans on public gatherings following a string of illegal […]

Russia has been accused by the U.S. of providing small arms to the Taliban.Reuters US intelligence has concluded that a Russian unit offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill troops of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Friday. The purported bounties gave incentives to the guerrillas to target US forces, just […]

Ethiopia says the mega-dam is essential for its development, but Egypt and Sudan worry about access to vital water supplies from the Nile EDUARDO SOTERAS AFP/File Ethiopia says the mega-dam is essential for its development, but Egypt and Sudan worry about access to vital water supplies from the Nile EDUARDO SOTERAS AFP/File Ethiopia said Saturday it was […]

Test kits sit on a table at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site on June 26, 2020, in Houston, Texas. –   Copyright  AP Photo/David J. Philli The US reported its highest one-day increase in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday as authorities across Europe urged people to respect bans on public gatherings following a string of […]