Kabul: The explosion took place near the police headquarters in Maiwand district of the province at around 8 p.m. on Sunday, TOLO News quoted the officials as saying. No group, including the Taliban, has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. The development comes as Kandahar has witnessed intensified clashes between Afghan security forces and […]
Joe Biden has clinched enough states to win the 270 electoral votes needed to become president, The Associated Press declared on Saturday, a day after Decision Desk HQ also called the race for Biden. The Democratic candidates victory was cemented after Pennsylvania was called for the two-term former vice president under Barack Obama. Various news […]
Democrat Joe Biden said he was going to win the United States presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him the victor as officials continued to count votes. “The numbers tell us […] it’s a clear and convincing story: We’re going to win […]
TEGUCIGALPA: Storm Eta unleashed torrential rains and catastrophic flooding in Central America, killing eight in the region, turning city streets into waist-high water channels and stranding scores of people. Families waded through flooded streets of the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, while cars sat almost submerged in parts of the central Guatemalan city […]
ROME: Italian officials agreed on Wednesday to impose a night-time curfew, joining a slew of European nations in ramping up restrictions to reverse a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases.Governments in Europe are struggling to get a hold of a pandemic that has now infected more than 11 million on the continent. Wednesday saw Russia announce […]
Tuesday’s presidential elections in the US are expected to be the most contentious in American history. No modern Presidential elections in the US have been held in such circumstances. The 2020 election is taking place bang in the middle of a pandemic, with over 80,000 new cases the highest in recent times, reported on Sunday. As […]
Hundreds of police fanned out across Vienna on Tuesday, searching for perpetrators of attacks that left five people dead in the city’s centre, after what a government minister said was an “Islamist terrorist” incident. In an early morning televised news conference, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer repeated calls for the public to stay off the […]
Gunmen attacked Kabul University’s campus on Monday, killing at least 19 people including students and trading fire with security forces, an Afghan government official and witnesses said. At least 22 others were injured, according to the spokesperson for the Afghan interior ministry. The attackers were targeting students and fired on them as they fled in […]
At least eight people were wounded when gunmen stormed Kabul University on Monday during an Iranian book fair, firing shots and sending students fleeing, Afghan officials and witnesses said. “The enemies of Afghanistan, the enemies of education […] have entered Kabul University,” Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the ministry of interior, told reporters. “The security […]
China is all set to begin the construction of the strategic Sichuan-Tibet Railway between Ya’an in southwest Sichuan province and Linzhi in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh, the official media reported. China Railway announced on Saturday the bidding results for the construction of two tunnels and one bridge, as well as […]