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Series of attacks kill at least 95 in Iraq
BAGHDAD: A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.
The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when Sunni and Shiite militias... |
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Deadly tornado batters US city of Oklahoma
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON: Over 90 people, including 20 children, were killed after a monstrous tornado ripped through the US city of Oklahoma, flattening entire neighbourhoods, crushing two elementary schools and turning the area into a war-zone.
The tornado, over a mile wide, ripped through the area on Monday with winds of up to 320 km/h.
Worst hit was Moore, south of the city, where neighbourhoo... |
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Chinese premier arrives in India for talks
NEW DELHI: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday afternoon on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance.
Li, who brought with him a large Chinese delegation, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday and meet other Indian leaders including from the main opposition BJP party... |
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Vietnam successfully test-flies drones
HANOI: Vietnam on Sunday successfully conducted test flights of six indigenously-made unmanned aerial vehicles, a media report said.
The "made-in-Vietnam" drones flew over the Central Highlands Lam Dong province, Xinhua reported citing the Van Hoa The Thao (Culture and Sports) newspaper.
After three days of tests - May 17-19 - in Da Lat city and Lac Duong district of Lam Dong, six vehicles m... |
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North Korea fires three short-range missiles
SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said.
US and South Korean forces had been on heightened alert for a medium-range ballistic missile test in recent weeks amid tensions triggered by North Korea's nuclear test in February.
"North Korea launched two guided missiles in t... |
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Same-sex marriage legalised in France
PARIS: The gay marriage bill has been legalized in France with the French president Francois Hollande signing the bill into a law.
With the signing of the bill, France has become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage and the first gay marriage is expected to take place within next two weeks, as per a BBC report.
The gay marriage bill was passed by the Parliament last month with the ... |
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Dozens killed in Nigerian military strike against Boko Haram
KADUNA: Dozens of people have been killed in a military strike launched by Nigerian Army since Thursday night in the northern part of the West African country, reported Xinhua citing security sources.
The casualties include three soldiers involved in the Army's unprecedented action against insurgents of the Boko Haram sect, which suffered the heaviest losses since emerging in 2009, the sources ... |
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Bangladesh cleans up after killer cyclone
CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh began cleaning up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes along its coast while breathing a sigh of relief that the damage was not much worse.
Fourteen people are so far known to have died in Bangladesh after Cyclone Mahasen, which has since been downgraded to a tropical depression, lashed southern coastal regions with winds of up to 100 kilometres (62... |
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Kabul suicide bomb on NATO convoy kills 8 civilians
KABUL: A powerful suicide car bomb targeting a NATO military convoy in Kabul killed eight Afghan civilians including two children on Thursday in the first major attack in the capital for more than two months.
Government officials said eight passers-by died in the explosion in the Shah Shaheed residential district in southeast Kabul, while the NATO coalition was unable to give details of any cas... |
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Five seriously injured in Nepal plane crash
KATHMANDU: A small plane carrying 18 passengers skidded off the runway of a high-altitude airport on Thursday and plunged into a river in northwestern Nepal seriously injuring five, a police spokesman said.
The government-run Nepal Airlines Twin Otter aircraft crashed into Kali Gandaki river in the Annapurna mountain range, police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said, adding that all on board were in... |
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