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The labourers were kidnaped from a coal mine in Mach and taken to the nearby hills where they were shot at. PHOTO: FILE At least 11 coal miners were kidnapped and killed in the Machh area of Balochistan on Sunday by unidentified men. Bolan Deputy Commissioner Murad Kasi said that four people injured in the […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec 30, 2020.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Susan Walsh  The US Congress on Friday overrode President Donald Trump’s veto of a defense policy bill, a first by lawmakers since he took office nearly four years ago. The measure, backed on Monday […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the American daily Washington Times should know better than to publish fake news, making a reference to the daily’s distortion of President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about his outgoing American counterpart. “Cowardice in assassinating foreign leaders is a US-Israeli trademark; NOT Iranian,” Khatibzadeh wrote in a tweet […]

  Construction workers take part in the renovation project of Somalia’s National Theatre in Mogadishu, Somalia Feb. 3, 2019. (Reuters File Photo) Four people, including a Turkish national, and several other Turkish laborers were injured after a suicide bomber carried out an attack on a road construction site in Somalia, security sources said Saturday. In […]

Five women were killed when a projectile exploded at a New Year’s Day wedding party in Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeida, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. Yemen has been torn apart by years of civil war; here a fighter loyal to the government battles with Huthi rebel forces in a November 2020 […]

  The year 2020 was undoubtedly dominated by one singularity – COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak killed nearly 1.8 million people, turned countless lives upside down and, perhaps, changed the world forever. However, along with the coronavirus outbreak many other consequential events unfolded this year, and below we listed some of them. 1. COVID-19 reaches Turkey After […]

A C-2 Greyhound, from the “Providers” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 30, launches off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz Dec. 9. Photo by Greg Hall/U.S. Navy Dec. 31 (UPI) — The USS Nimitz has left for its home port following a 10-month deployment, the Pentagon announced Thursday.In a press release from the Department of Defense, Jonathan […]

 Global crude oil markets have lost about a fifth of their value in 2020 as strict coronavirus lockdowns paralyzed much of the global economy, but prices have rebounded strongly from their lows as governments rolled out stimulus. On Thursday, the last trading day of 2020, Brent was down 8 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $51.55 […]

December 31, 2020 (KHARTOUM) – President of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan who is Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces stated that the Sudanese army had been redeployed along the Sudanese side in the border Ethiopia. The Sudanese armed forces “have not and will not cross international borders or attack neighbouring Ethiopia,” al-Burhan stressed in […]

The UK’s daily COVID-19 death toll hit 981 on Wednesday, as the country continued to grapple with a new variant of the virus. This is the country’s highest number of recorded deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test since April. One region of the country has declared a “major incident” due to the pressure on […]