The Dera Darya Khan bridge, connecting Punjab with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, remained closed on Wednesday after a suicide attack at the nearby inter-provincial checkpost in the Dajal area of Punjab’s Bhakkar a day earlier, causing severe disruption to traffic and the transport of essential goods. At 6:45pm yesterday, a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a checkpost just off […]
Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners. Police said retired Major General Suresh Sallay was taken into custody at dawn in a suburb of the capital, Colombo, in the most high-profile arrest in the long-running […]
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Israel on Wednesday for a two-day visit that both countries have cast as a chance to deepen relations, as regional concerns mount over the risk of military conflict between the United States and Iran. Modi, a Hindu nationalist, became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel in 2017, […]
The traditional “hundred-bird dress” festival was held on Tuesday in Gandong Township of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Liuzhou City, located in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. People from various ethnic groups donned festive attire to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Women wore traditional Miao costumes adorned with silver headdresses, while men performed on […]