One militant was killed and six people were injured on Tuesday during a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, police said. The incident took place when security forces launched a search operation in Parraypora village after getting information about holed-up militants. The militants opened fire leading to the gunfight, the police said. The injured […]
The Lahore High Court has allowed private channels to show Indian movies as per their terms of agreements with Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). The court on Monday granted permission in the light of Pemra’s 2002 ordinance that television channels were allowed to run Indian films, The News International reported. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali […]
Michael Flynn’s position as US President Donald Trumps national security adviser appeared to be “fluid”, after the White House said that the president was “evaluating the situation”, the media reported. Reports have surfaced that the Justice Department warned the Trump administration last month that Flynn misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador […]
At least 30 houses and some 50 other buildings were destroyed by bushfires over the weekend in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state, authorities said on Tuesday. The most serious damage was in the Sir Ivan reserve, where the fire destroyed 23 houses, including five in the town of Uarbry, located some 380 km northwest […]
International law is not prepared to deal with cyberattacks even as the interconnected world faces threats on a scale never seen before, India has told the Security Council. The world body is not ready to act on an anti-terrorism treaty dealing with cyber terrorism and even the Security Council’s decisions that impose binding duties on […]
At least 13 people were killed and 100 others injured after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Philippines’ Surigao city, officials said on Saturday. Surigao Governor Sol Matugas said the quake struck late Friday night, 14 km northwest of the city, Xinhua news agency reported. The government disaster agency in Manila has yet to issue official […]
Anis Amri, the Berlin Christmas market attacker, was a “ladies man” before he became radicalised inside an Italian prison, a woman at whose house he stayed has claimed. The 22-year-old Italian woman, named only as Jessica, spoke out for the first time about Amri in an interview with Germany’s Bild daily. Amri killed 12 people […]
A US Federal Elections Commission (FEC) official called on President Donald Trump to give proof of voter fraud, after he reportedly made claims in a meeting with senators, the media reported. Trump reportedly blamed voter fraud for why both he and former Senator Kelly Ayotte lost in New Hampshire in November during the meeting on […]
Hillary Clinton trolled US President Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected his bid to reinstate a temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the media reported. Her tweet simply read, “3-0”, a reference to the unanimous decision by the three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San […]
A federal appeals panel unanimously rejected US President Donald Trump’s bid to reinstate his temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the media reported. The ruling late Thursday from a three-judge panel meant that citizens of the seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Somalia — will continue to be able to […]