US: 20 hurt as city ramp collapses in Texas
Houston: More than 20 teenagers were injured after a ramp collapsed on Thursday at a beachside city in south central U.S. state Texas, authorities said.
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Fire triggered by explosion of charger fan in Narayanganj leaves five hurt
Dhaka: At least five people were injured after a fire was caused by the explosion of a charger fan in Narayanganj's Fatullah region on Friday.
Admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for ISIL victims in Iraq
New York: Competent courts, admissible and reliable evidence, and an appropriate legal framework are needed to ensure that ISIL extremist militants can be prosecuted for the atrocities they committed during their reign of terror in Iraq, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.
Paris: Nursery students stabbed while playing in park
Paris: A man on Thursday stabbed people with a knife in a park in the city of Annecy, southeast France, injuring several of them, including nursery children, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed.
Classified documents case: Donald Trump indicted
Former US President Donald Trump has been charged for his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House, media reports said.
David Johnston claims to be unbiased despite enlisting help from Liberal, NDP
Ottawa/IBNS: Canada’s special rapporteur on foreign interference, David Johnston, insisted that he is unbiased even though he has enlisted the help of experts with links to the Liberals and NDP.
Seven, including 6 children, injured in mass stabbing attack in France
Paris (France): Seven people, six of them children, sustained gruesome injuries in a mass stabbing attack in the town of Annecy in the French Alps on Thursday, security sources told AFP.
US Treasury sanctions China- and Mexico-based enablers of counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pill production
Washington: The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 17 individuals and entities involved in the international proliferation of equipment used to produce illicit drugs.
Pakistan: Christian person sentenced to death under blasphemy laws
A Pakistani court has sentenced to death a Christian person on charges of blasphemy.
Pakistan: Three terrorists killed in Swat
Swat: At least three terrorists, including two in-custody militants, were killed during an alleged shootout in Banjot area of Pakistan's Swat city on Tuesday.
Two policemen killed in NW Pakistan's firing attack
Islamabad/UNI: Two policemen were killed, and a passerby was injured due to gunfire by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's northwest Swat district on Thursday, police said.
Mine blast kills one in Afghanistan's Ghazni
At least one person was killed as a mine left over from past wars went off in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday, a district police officer Mohammad Nasir said on Thursday.
Bangladesh: Secondary schools to remain closed due to heatwave
Dhaka/UNI: The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education announced that the classes of all secondary schools in Bangladesh will remain closed on Thursday, due to the heatwave.
Türkiye President Erdogan discusses Ukrainian crisis with Putin
Ankara/UNI: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a phone talk with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and discussed the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Passenger van overturns in central Afghanistan, injuring 14
Bamyan: At least 14 commuters sustained injuries on Wednesday after a passenger van turned turtle in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province, a statement of the provincial police released here said.
Somali forces gun down 20 al-Shabab militants
Mogadishu: The Somali National Army killed 20 al-Shabab militants during an operation Wednesday in the country's southern region of Lower Shabelle.
Four killed, 10 injured in highway crash in N Egypt
Cairo: At least four women were killed and ten others wounded when a pickup crashed into an agricultural tractor on a highway in Egypt's Nile Delta Province of Gharbia on Wednesday.
Canada’s housing market witnesses largest affordability improvement in four years: National Bank
Toronto/IBNS: Canada’s housing market has witnessed the largest improvement in affordability in nearly four years in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report from economists at the National Bank of Canada.
ByteDance helped China spy on Hong Kong activists using TikTok data, accuses former employee
ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing platform TikTok, allowed the Chinese government access to the data of Hong Kong civil rights activists and protesters, enabling it to track and monitor them, a former employee has alleged.
Canada: Manitoba announces free entry to provincial parks, free family fishing this weekend
Winnipeg/IBNS: During this year’s Family Fishing Weekend from June 9-11, Manitoba families have been allowed free access to provincial parks as well as free family fishing, Natural Resources and Northern Development Minister Greg Nesbitt has announced in a news release.
Chinese apps creating trouble for Pakistan's financially-crippled population
China-based loan apps are creating troubles and adding more miseries to the life of the already financially cripped population of Pakistan, media reports said.
Geneva: Imran Khan's supporters demonstrate outside UN office
A large number of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan's protesters assembled outside the UN office in Geneva on Monday and demonstrated against rights violations in the country.
Pakistan: Bishops protest after killing at Catholic School
Pakistan's Catholic Bishops have said they have a limit to their patience after the horrific attack on Sangota Public School on May 17 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat District.
Terrorism: Norway puts Pakistan under its 'scanner'
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has listed Pakistan, a nation currently experiencing a financial crisis, as one of the countries that pose a significant threat to Norway, media reports said.
World Food Safety Day: ‘Nobody should die from eating food’
New York: Every day, some 1.6 million people worldwide fall ill from eating contaminated food, which kills 420,000 people each year, two UN agencies said on Tuesday.
Human rights for all, still ‘work in progress’ warns Türk
New York: The full realization of human rights for all is a “work in progress”, and the world must now adapt and update its thinking to respond to current “dramatic rollbacks”, the UN human rights chief said on Tuesday, marking the 30th anniversary of both his office and the global agreement that created it.
Student visa or separatist sanctuary? A look into Canada’s immigration dilemma
News of Edmonton-based student Karamjit Kaur’s stayed deportation has caused a stir, bringing several pertinent questions to the fore. One of these is the troubling misuse of Canada’s immigration laws under the banner of the Khalistan movement. How can authorities permit such exploitation of Canada’s legal structures?
UN Security Council to welcome five new non-permanent members
New York: Five countries have been elected as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council following a vote in the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Ukraine: Seven people missing in Kherson region after destruction of Kakhovka dam
Kherson: Seven people are considered missing in the Kherson Region after the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) and subsequent flooding, Vladimir Leontyev, the Russia-appointed mayor of the city of Nova Kakhovka, said on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Enforced Disappearances now hits Punjab
The issue of forced disappearance, which was quite common in Balochistan, is slowly gaining pace in Punjab region of Pakistan, media reports said.