Following Israel’s total blockade of Gaza in response to a surprise onslaught by Hamas, a humanitarian crisis is rapidly developing in Gaza, where stranded civilians are experiencing a shortage of basic necessities and the death toll from the fighting has surpassed 2,000. Since the full closure of the besieged region was imposed, the Gaza Strip […]
According to the UN human rights chief, Israel’s comprehensive blockade of the Gaza Strip, which deprives Palestinians basic necessities for living, is prohibited by international law. Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, urged all parties to defuse the “explosive powder keg situation,” saying that people’s dignity and lives must be respected. #Israel […]
Fears of a ground invasion of the beleaguered area have been raised as the Israeli military gathered almost 100,000 reserve soldiers close to the Gaza Strip in an effort to retake control of a desert near the troubled border. As the death toll rose past 1,100 after the third day of fighting, an Israeli military […]
The death toll could rise given reports of landslides and people trapped beneath collapsed structures after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that rocked western Afghanistan on Saturday killed 14 people and injured 78 others. According to the USGS, the epicenter of the earthquake was located 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the northwest of Herat, the major […]
The Indian prime minister and the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, which is now the site of multiple ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup matches, were threatened with bombings in an email that the Mumbai police received on Thursday night. The email warned the authorities that if the Indian government does not pay 5 billion Indian […]
Following a massive attack on Israel launched by Hamas on Saturday that resulted in an unexpected influx of Palestinians into numerous Israeli communities and a heavy barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, the death toll has risen to 22 from six Israelis while dozens have been injured. Immediately after Israel’s military announced that […]
On Friday, Karachi police detained a guy for groping and harassing a woman in the Samanabad neighborhood of Karachi. The event was captured on CCTV, which shows a man going down a lane before grabbing a female bystander. On social media, users were outraged by the footage and demanded the suspect’s quick arrest. District Central […]
Five years after the passing of Sridevi, one of Bollywood’s most recognizable stars, Bollywood filmmaker Boney Kapoor has spoken out about the tragedy. Kapoor said he was certain that Sridevi had drowned to death after looking at investigative files and “certain other evidence” in an interview with The New Indian on Monday. “They also found […]
Sarfraz Bugti, the interim interior minister, claimed on Saturday that Pakistan has been the target of terrorist attacks carried out by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), an intelligence agency of India. Two suicide bombings that occurred on Friday in the regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan shook the nation and left numerous people injured. […]
According to early Wednesday reports, a fire that started at a wedding in the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh resulted in at least 100 fatalities and more than 150 injuries. An AFP photographer observed ambulances arrive at the major hospital in the largely Christian town east of Mosul with their sirens blasting and hundreds of […]
