Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in a military operation in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Pakistani military said on Wednesday. An exchange of fire occurred between security forces and terrorists in the Hilal Khel area of the Bajaur district of the province, said a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army’s media […]
Over two million tourists have visited the Philippines since February, raking in over $1.76 billion in revenue, Philippine Tourism Secretary, Christina Frasco, said on Tuesday. The Department of Tourism (DOT) said 2,025,421 visitors arrived in the Philippines as of Nov. 14. DOT data showed that 1,487,343 or 73.43 per cent of the total tourist arrivals […]
India registered 474 new daily COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the Federal Health Ministry said. The cases reported marked a decrease in comparison to the daily caseload of Monday’s 547. The ministry has issued conflicting reports about the number of active cases in the country. According to data released by the government, the active caseload stands […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has deregistered 17 political parties following their failure to comply with laws governing political parties in the country. The EC announced the decision in a statement on Monday, saying the certificates of the affected parties have been cancelled since Nov. 1. It explained that none of the 17 political […]
The perpetrator of Sunday’s deadly bomb attack which killed six people and injured 81 others here has been arrested by police, said Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu early Monday. “`The person who carried out the attack and left the bomb was detained by the teams of our Istanbul Police Department,” the state-run Anadolu agency quoted […]
Six coal miners were kidnapped by terrorists on Sunday night in the Bolan district of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, the Police said in a statement on Monday. According to the provincial police, unknown armed terrorists abducted the miners late in the night from the Mach coal mine area in the district and took them away […]
Britain and France, on Monday, signed an agreement aimed at fighting against illegal migration via the English Channel, which has long been a point of friction between the two countries. Britain will commit 72.2 million euros (about 74.3 million U.S. dollars) in 2022-2023 following the deal signed by British Home Secretary Suella Braverman and her […]
A passenger plane slipped off the runway while landing in Pakistan’s northern Peshawar city on Monday, a spokesperson for the country’s civil aviation authority said. The flight from Pakistan International Airlines was coming from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, when the accident took place at Bacha Khan International Airport, Saifullah Khan, the spokesperson, told Xinhua. He said […]
The fertility rate of Filipino women in the Philippines has continued to decline since the 1970s, according to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data. The results of the 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey released, on Sunday, showed that the total fertility rate (TFR) of Filipino women aged 15 to 49 declined from 2.7 children per […]
Uganda’s Ministry of Health says Ebola has spread to the eastern part of the country beyond the epicentre in the central region. Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health, tweeted on Sunday that a confirmed fatal case, who is a 45-year-old male, has been reported in the Jinja district of eastern Uganda. The confirmed fatal case died […]