Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, the reigning Chicago Marathon champion, won his third consecutive men’s crown on Saturday at the World Cross Country Championships. The 25-year-old completed the hat-trick over 10 kilometers in a winning time of 28min 18sec with Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi 18sec back in a third consecutive runner-up finish, with Kenya’s Daniel Ebenyo third in […]
Pakistan has urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the wider international community to unite in rejecting any actions that undermine Somalia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The call was made by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar while addressing the 22nd Extraordinary Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah […]
Iran warned President Donald Trump on Sunday that any attack by the United States would trigger Tehran’s retaliation against Israel and American military bases in the region, as tensions escalate over Washington’s increasingly vocal support for anti-government protests sweeping the Islamic Republic. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf told lawmakers that Israel and regional US military […]
At least six people, including a newly married couple, were killed on Sunday when a gas cylinder exploded at a house in Islamabad’s G-7/2 sector where a wedding ceremony was under way, officials said. The blast occurred while guests were present at the house, according to Additional Deputy Commissioner General Sahibzada Yousaf. He said the […]
Hard hat-wearing rescue workers and backhoes dug through rubble in search of survivors on Saturday in the shadow of a mountain of garbage that buried dozens of landfill employees in the central Philippines, killing at least six. About 50 sanitation workers were buried when refuse toppled onto them Thursday from what a city councillor estimated […]
Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country’s southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave blanketed the state of Victoria this week, with hot winds fanning some of the most dangerous fire weather seen since the Black Summer bushfires of […]
Greenland’s political parties issued a rare united rebuke to Washington after US President Donald Trump again suggested using force to seize the mineral-rich Danish autonomous territory, triggering alarm in Europe and highlighting a broader, increasingly muscular US posture across multiple regions. The leaders of all five parties in Greenland’s parliament said they rejected rule by […]
Four miners in northern Afghanistan were suffocated to death by fumes this week while digging for gemstones, a local official told AFP on Saturday. “The incident occurred in Khash District of Badakhshan province where four workers at a mine died”, Ehsanullah Kamgar, the spokesman for Badakhshan’s police told AFP, adding the deaths occurred on Friday. […]
North Korea accused the South on Saturday of flying another drone over its territory this month for the purpose of spying, a claim that Seoul denied. The North Korean military tracked a drone “moving northwards” over the South Korean border county of Ganghwa in early January before shooting it down near the North Korean city […]
Pakistan’s plan to fully deregulate its sugar sector after nearly eight decades of state control has entered a decisive phase, with the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMA) cautioning that market freedom without strong oversight could deepen long-standing problems instead of resolving them. In a detailed policy report, ICMA has proposed a […]