Afghan releases more than 100 Taliban prisoners
May 05, 2020, at 07:53 pm
Kabul/UNI:The Afghan government has released 102 more members of the Taliban as per the agreement between the Islamist group and the US announced National Security Council Spokesman Javid Faisal on Tuesday.
Somalia probes plane crash after 6 killed
May 05, 2020, at 07:23 pm
Mpgadishu/Xinhua: Somali government said Tuesday it has launched investigations after a light aircraft delivering medical supplies crashed in southwest region on Monday, killing all six people onboard.
Over 100 Russian journalists got infected with coronavirus, 3 Died - Journalists Union
May 05, 2020, at 07:16 pm
Moscow/Sputnik- More than 100 Russian journalists contracted the coronavirus disease, while three died since the start of the outbreak, Vladimir Solovyev, the chair of the Russian Union of Journalists, told Sputnik on Tuesday.
US has not shared evidence proving coronavirus originated in Wuhan labs: WHO
May 05, 2020, at 05:26 pm
Geneva/IBNS: World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Program chief said on Monday that it has not received any evidence from US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the novel coronavirus could have originated in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city which first reported the emergence of the deadly virus last year, said media reports.
Covid-19 death toll in Moscow region grows by 16 to 127: Response center
May 05, 2020, at 05:09 pm
MoscowSputnik/UNI: The Moscow Region has registered 16 coronavirus-related fatalities over the past 24 hours, and the overall death toll reached 127 since the start of an outbreak, the local coronavirus response center said on Tuesday.
May 05, 2020, at 04:02 pm
Brussels/IBNS: Stressing on a comprehensive and coordinated effort to develop medicines to deal with COVID-19, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the most massive public health effort in history since it is an interconnected world where “none of us is safe until all of us are safe”.
Bangladesh: 17 JMB members arrested in Dhaka
May 05, 2020, at 03:22 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: Bangladesh police have arrested 17 members of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB from country's capital city Dhaka, media reports said on Tuesday.
May 05, 2020, at 02:50 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Small businessmen in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region have alleged that they are suffering due to discriminatory and unprofessional conduct of the authorities at this time when the country is witnessing COVID-19 outbreak.
Record child displacement figures due to conflict and violence in 2019: UNICEF
May 05, 2020, at 12:16 pm
New York/IBNS: A new UN report finds that some 19 million children were displaced within their own countries due to conflict and violence in 2019, more than in any other year, making them among the most vulnerable to the global spread of COVID-19.
Press freedom critical to countering COVID-19 ‘pandemic of misinformation’: UN chief
May 05, 2020, at 11:44 am
New York/IBNS: Journalists are key to countering the “dangerous outbreak of misinformation” accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday during a virtual dialogue on promoting press freedom amid the global crisis.
Afghanistan: Security forces arrest two Pakistani nationals affiliated with ISIS
May 05, 2020, at 11:08 am
Kabul/IBNS: Afghanistan security forces have arrested two Pakistani nationals who were affiliated with the Islamic State terror group, media reports said on Tuesday.
Ukraine's Tymoshenko declares $5.5Mln as compensation from US for 'Political Repression'
May 04, 2020, at 07:14 pm
Kiev/Sputnik: - Ukraine's former Prime Minister and current leader of Fatherland party Yulia Tymoshenko received some 148 million hryvnia ($5.5 million) from the United States as a compensation for "political repression" she allegedly suffered back in 2011-2014, according to her income declaration published on the country's Unified State Register of Declarations.
Armed men kill 9 Syrian policemen in southern Syria
May 04, 2020, at 07:01 pm
Damascus/Xinhua: Unknown armed men killed nine Syrian policemen in the country's southern province of Daraa on Monday, a war monitor reported.
Car crash kills 5, injures 6 in central Azerbaijan
May 04, 2020, at 06:54 pm
Baku/Xinhua: Five people, including two children, were killed and six others injured in a crash involving two passenger cars in the central Azerbaijani district of Kurdamir on Monday, the country's emergency authorities said.
Pakistani media rights watchdog report highlights worrying climate of press freedom in country
May 04, 2020, at 05:32 pm
Islamabad: At least 91 cases, including seven murders of journalists and a blogger, attacks and other violations, against media and its practitioners have been documented in Pakistan over the course of one year – between May 2019 and April 2020 – signifying a worryingly escalating climate of intimidation and harassment that is adversely affecting the freedom of expression.
Doctor dies in Karachi after not getting ventilator facility for COVID-19 treatment
May 04, 2020, at 04:56 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: A doctor in Pakistan, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died in Karachi city of the country after he could not get a ventilator for his treatment, media reports said.
Afghan military detains senior IS member in eastern Nangarhar province
May 04, 2020, at 04:28 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: The Afghan National Army captured a senior member of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) in the eastern Nangarhar province, the governor’s office said on Monday in a statement.
COVID-19 cases top 10,000 in Bangladesh
May 04, 2020, at 03:59 pm
Dhaka/UINI: Bangladesh on Monday reported a record daily jump of 688 new COVID-19 cases, taking its total to over 10,000.
Four dead, 1 injured in Philippine clashes between gov't military, terrorist groups
May 04, 2020, at 03:56 pm
Manila/Xinhua/UNI: Two soldiers and two suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists had been killed in two separate clashes in the southern Philippines, the military reported on Monday.
May 04, 2020, at 02:53 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: The TIME magazine has named the arrest of CEO, owner and editor-in-chief of Pakistan's Jang Media Group, Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman, in its list of 10 'Most Urgent' cases of threats to Press Freedom in the age of Coronavirus.
Pakistan expects locust migration at end of May
May 04, 2020, at 01:31 pm
Islamabad/Xinhua/UNI: The Pakistani government has said that a locust migration will start from southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province and some other countries at the end of May.
Afghanistan: Bomb blast injures 4 power workers in Kabul
May 04, 2020, at 01:28 pm
Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: Four Afghan high-voltage electricity workers were injured in a bomb attack near a power pylon in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday, authorities said.
COVID-19 positive Bangladeshi doctor dies
May 04, 2020, at 01:26 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: A Bangladeshi doctor, who had tested positive for COVID-19, has died, media reports said on Monday.
Pakistan calls for reduction in violence in Afghanistan
May 04, 2020, at 01:24 pm
Islamabad/Xinhua/UNI: Pakistan underlined the need for reduction in violence in Afghanistan which is a key to take the peace process forward.
CIF appeals to Canada PM to include International students in the CESB prog
May 04, 2020, at 12:52 pm
Toronto/IBNS: An appeal was made by Canada India Foundation (CIF) in a letter addressed to Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to include international students in the Canada Emergency Student Benefits (CESB) program announced on 22 April, media reports said.
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France, Britain to trial COVID-19 tracing apps next week
May 04, 2020, at 12:48 pm
Paris/Xinhua/UNI: France will test its "StopCOVID" contact tracing app in the week of May 11 when the country starts to ease lockdown measures, Minister for Digital Affairs Cedric O said on Sunday.
Canada to Fund Promising Research of Coronavirus Drug - Trudeau
May 04, 2020, at 11:01 am
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Sunday that his government would give a Vancouver pharma company an equivalent of $125 million to support research of a potential coronavirus cure.
Is Pakistan using COVID-19 situation to eliminate Baloch, Pashtun leaders?
May 03, 2020, at 11:25 pm
Islamabad: At a time when the world is combating the COVID-19 outbreak, Pakistan seems to be using the situation to eliminate prominent Baloch and Pashtun people if the deaths of Sajid Hussain and Arif Wazir are any indication.
COVID-19: Bangladesh reports 665 new cases, two death in 24-hour
May 03, 2020, at 10:21 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh on Sunday reported a record 665 new cases of coronavirus, raising the total number of such cases to 9,445.
Taliban kill 3 soldiers in attack on checkpoints in Eastern Afghanistan
May 03, 2020, at 09:13 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: Three Afghan soldiers were killed and five others injured in a gunfight with Taliban militants in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, a spokesman for the governor said on Sunday.