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Heavy gunfire was heard from within the facility for trainee midwives early on Saturday [Parwiz/Reuters] Afghan security forces have battled for hours a group of gunmen who stormed a medical training centre in the eastern city of Jalalabad, in an attack that left at least four civilians wounded, according to officials. A series of explosions […]

A forest fire in Ljusdal. Photo: TT Sweden’s unprecedented drought and devastating wildfires are destroying vital grazing pastureland for indigenous Sami reindeer herders, whose livelihoods are already under attack from mining and logging as global warming changes the face of the Arctic. “Our winter land is burning,” says Jonas Kraik, a 54-year-old herder, whose Sami […]

Image copyrightSPL Skywatchers will be treated to the longest “blood moon” eclipse of the 21st Century on Friday. As it rises, during this total eclipse, Earth’s natural satellite will turn a striking shade of red or ruddy brown. The “totality” period, when light from the Moon is totally obscured, will last for one hour, 43 […]

Abdirisaq Qasim Iman, a journalist working for the London-based Somali Broadcasting Services (SBS) was killed by security checkpoint police near Peace Garden in the city’s Hamar [Twitter] Somalia’s police shot dead a broadcast journalist yesterday, Garowe Online reported. This is the first killing of a journalist in 2018 as the government battles with corruption within its ranks. […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has released provisional results of 260 out of 270 National Assembly (NA) seats that were polled on July 25 across the country. According to the results, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is leading the NA tally with 115 NA seats. Trailing is the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) with 62 and […]

A soldier carries a casket containing the remains of a U.S. soldier who was killed in the Korean War during a ceremony at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeoggi Province, Friday. / Joint Press Corps North Korea returned the remains of 55 U.S. soldiers who died in the North during the 1950-53 Korean War, raising […]

Putin hands Trump World Cup soccer ball at Helsinki summit, 16 Jul, 2018 © Grigory Dukor / Reuters Vladimir Putin gave Donald Trump a football which might have contained a microchip which could also have been a bug – but almost certainly wasn’t. That hasn’t stopped Bloomberg and CNN pulling together one hell of a […]

The IRGC’s Quds Force Commander Ghasem Soleimani in reaction to US President Donald Trump’s recent tweet against Iran said “we are closer to you than you think”, rebuking Trump for threatening Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Major General Ghasem Soleimani made the remarks on Thursday in the city of Hamedan. His remarks […]

Greek authorities express fears over the fate of around 20 tourists that are missing following Monday’s deadly fire in eastern Attica. Sources say that the tourists mainly from Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Poland are missing from their lodgings in the seaside resorts of Mati and Rafina. Authorities are concerned that the tourists, trapped by the […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in partial results of a general election on Thursday, as the party of his jailed chief rival, ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, rejected the count as “blatantly” rigged. With just 30 percent of the total vote counted, the Election Commission of Pakistan had Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party […]