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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 […]

Exceptional conditions with gusts of wind that reached record speeds of up to 120 km per hour (75mph) were at least partly to blame for the devastation inflicted by the fires in Attica, a leading Greek scientist said. Manolis Pleionis,the head of the National Observatory of Athens said that “the high wind gust speeds certainly created […]

The Islamic State terrorist group publishes pictures of what it says are remains of Syrian jet shot down by Israel on June 24, 2018 (Screenshot courtesy of Walla) The Islamic State terrorist group on Wednesday published pictures it said showed the remains of a Syrian jet shot down by Israel a day earlier. Israel on Tuesday said […]

Officials of the South and North exchange lists of surviving separated families, at the truce village of Panmunjeom on Wednesday. / Courtesy of Unification Ministry South and North Korea exchanged lists of surviving separated families Wednesday, at the truce village of Panmunjeom, ahead of scheduled reunions next month. Through the Red Cross, the South delivered […]

The killed pilot is Colonel Omran Merei from the coastal city of Safita in the Tartous governorate, northwest of Syria. (Supplied) A photo of the Syrian pilot- who died in the Israeli shooting of his fighter jet that crossed into the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday-  surfaced online. The killed pilot is Colonel Omran Merei […]

  QUETTA: At least 31 people were martyred and dozens more wounded in a suicide attack near a polling station provincial capital of Balochistan, officials said, as people voted in  elections on Wednesday. “(The bomber) was trying to enter the polling station. When police tried to stop him he blew himself up,” a local administration […]

The total number of dead in the destructive fires east of Athens has risen to 76. Greece Fire Service’s announced 74 fatalities late afternoon on Tuesday. A few hours later another two bodies were discovered in the seaside town of Mati. The injured are 188, including 23 children. There is also an unspecified number of missing. All […]

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu talks at a press conference during a visit in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, in the city of Lefkoşa, July 24, 2018. (REUTERS Photo) Turkey opposes sanctions on Iran and is not obliged to abide by sanctions imposed by the U.S., the U.K. or any other country, Foreign Minister Mevlüt […]

FILE PHOTO A Sukhoi Su-22 Syrian army plane / Sputnik Israel has fired interceptor missiles at a Syrian Sukhoi warplane, the IDF said in a statement, adding that the aircraft had penetrated Israeli-controlled airspace. “Two Patriot missiles were launched at a Sukhoi fighter plane. The plane was under [Israeli] surveillance, it penetrated about two kilometers […]

Hibo is now a FGM campaigner and lives in London (Picture: Alexander Crawley for Metro.co.uk)  When I read the story of the 10-year-old girl who bled to death in Somalia after female genitalia mutilation (FGM) – not only bled to death but she also caught tetanus – I cannot imagine the pain she was going […]