Six people died in the disaster and 280 others were injured in Thursday’s explosion in a Nairobi residential area. Kenyan police on Tuesday said they had arrested the main suspect in a deadly gas blast that triggered a huge fireball in a densely populated area of Nairobi last week. Six…
Ankara says the ‘terrorist act’ was carried out by the leftist armed group DHKP-C. The Turkish police have killed two people who allegedly attacked a court in Istanbul in what authorities labelled a “terrorist act”. The incident on Tuesday morning also saw six people injured, including three police officers, officials…
Jailed former leader the latest to face prosecution under Thailand’s strict laws protecting monarchy against criticism. Thai police have charged former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with insulting the monarchy over comments he made almost a decade ago. Officials said on Tuesday that the complaint concerns a 2015 interview that Thaksin…
Here’s how things stand on Tuesday, February 6, 2024: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza At least 27,478 people have been killed and 66,835 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. A convoy of trucks waiting to bring food into the Gaza Strip was hit by Israeli fire on Monday,…
NewsFeed A Jewish activist group in the US staged a protest inside Pennsylvania’s state capitol building calling for an end to genocide in Gaza and for the state to stop investing in Israeli companies. More than 100 people were reportedly arrested. Published On 6 Feb 20246 Feb 2024 Check out…
Dakar, Senegal – Plateau, the downtown Dakar neighbourhood that is home to the country’s National Assembly, was tense but quiet on Monday morning. Inside parliament, the assembly was anything but. Lawmakers were debating on President Macky Sall’s announcement to postpone general elections – originally scheduled for February 25 – for…
NewsFeed Families in Syrian towns devastated by last year’s earthquake are still choosing to sleep in tents outside, one year on. They fear that another quake could strike at any moment and that they could be crushed in their sleep. The Turkey-Syria earthquakes struck the region on February 6, 2023,…
Bob Beckwith was working in the smouldering ruins of the World Trade Center when George W Bush visited the site. A retired New York City firefighter who rose to fame after being photographed next to then-President George W Bush in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks has died…
Varanasi/Bengaluru, India – A festive atmosphere engulfed Varanasi, one of Hinduism’s holiest cities situated on the banks of the river Ganga. It was the week Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the new temple to the Hindu deity Ram where the 16th century Babri Masjid once stood in the city of…
Pakistani voters head to the polls on Thursday amid a deep-seated economic crisis. Inflation is hovering at 30 percent, close to 40 percent of people live below the poverty line, and the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio has climbed to 72 percent. Pakistan’s new government will have to contend with…
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