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A suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad killed at least 31 people on Friday, local authorities said, with a police source saying more than 130 were wounded, reports AFP. City officials said “31 people were killed in the blast” at the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque in the Tarlai area on the outskirts of Islamabad. A ...

AAP leader Lucky Oberoi was shot dead in Punjab’s Jalandhar on Friday morning while he was leaving the Model Town gurdwara after offering prayers. He was admitted to a private hospital but succumbed to gunshot injuries, police told HT. Two unidentified men riding a motorcycle reached the location and fired 8-10 shots using two highly sophisticated weapons. Visuals after the ...

Japan votes in snap elections Sunday with polls pointing to a resounding win for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s conservatives after a honeymoon start for the country’s first woman leader. But having angered China and rattled markets in her three months so far, it is unclear what a more confident and secure Takaichi will mean for the region or Asia’s number ...

The Trump administration is withdrawing some 700 federal immigration enforcement agents from Minnesota, although about 2,000 agents will stay in place, White House border czar Tom Homan announced on Wednesday, a number the state’s Democratic leaders say is still too high. In an unprecedented surge, US President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed immigration enforcement agents in and around ...

President Donald Trump signed a spending bill on Tuesday ending the four-day partial government shutdown sparked by Democratic opposition to funding for the federal agency carrying out his sweeping immigration crackdown. The legislation landed on Trump’s desk at the White House after it was passed by a narrow 217-214 margin in the Republican-controlled House earlier in the day. Twenty-one Democrats ...

Iranian authorities have arrested over 50,000 people as part of their crackdown on protests, an NGO said on Tuesday, adding that fresh detentions were ongoing. Rights groups have accused Iran’s security forces of killing thousands of people in a crackdown on protests that peaked on January 8 and 9 and have since subsided. But police have also been rounding up ...

A renowned Venezuelan human rights activist was freed Sunday after more than four years in a notorious Caracas prison, saying he endured 1,675 days behind bars that were “too much pain for a human being.” “The message remains the same: four years and seven months in prison did not silence the truth. The truth set me free,” Javier Tarazona told ...

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to “under no circumstances” get involved with protests in Democratic-led cities unless they ask for federal help or federal property is threatened. The announcement follows weeks of unrest and protests sparked by a large deployment of Border Patrol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Iran’s army on Thursday added 1,000 drones to its combat regiments as its chief vowed a “crushing response” to any attack, state television reported, as US President Donald Trump weighs targeted strikes to inspire “renewed protests.” The US has already moved a strike force into regional waters. “In accordance with the threats we are facing, maintaining and enhancing strategic advantages ...

A plane crash in northeast Colombia on Wednesday killed all 15 people on board, including a local lawmaker, state-run airline Satena said. The Beechcraft 1900 twin-engined turboprop plane took off before noon from Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela, for a short flight to the town of Ocana, Satena said. Air traffic control lost contact with the plane 12 minutes ...