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Sana’a, Jan 12 (UNI) The United States and the United Kingdom will pay a “high price” for their airstrikes, Hussein al-Ezzi, the deputy foreign minister of the movement, said Friday. “Our country has been subjected to a massive aggressive attack carried out by American and British ships, submarines and warplanes. Undoubtedly, America and Britain will…
Kabul, Jan 11 (UNI) An earthquake jolted Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and adjoining areas on Thursday, with no immediate reports of casualties. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences earlier reported an earthquake struck the Hindu Kush Region in the Central Asian country at 0920 GMT and has revised the intensity of the earthquake from a…
Islamabad, Jan 11 (UNI) An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude rocked several cities in Pakistan on Thursday, the country’s National Seismic Monitoring Center said. According to the center, the epicenter of the quake was located in the Hindu Kush region in neighboring Afghanistan with a depth of 213 km. The earthquake was felt in several parts…
Mexico City, Jan 11 (UNI) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has thrown his support behind a case brought by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last month which accuses Israel of committing genocide with its military operation in the Gaza Strip, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said. “In light of the…
Dhaka, Jan 11 (UNI) A 37-member new cabinet of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was announced on Wednesday night. Cabinet Secretary Mahbub Hossain told a press conference that the cabinet included Prime Minister Hasina, 25 cabinet ministers and 11 ministers of state. According to the cabinet secretary, Hasina has inducted 14 new faces into her…
Jerusalem, Jan 11 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel “has no intention” of maintaining the occupation of Gaza or displacing civilians. Netanyahu made the remarks a day before the opening of hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague regarding the alleged genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza…
Islamabad, Jan 11 (UNI) Two soldiers and two terrorists were killed in a military operation in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani military, said on Wednesday night in a statement that a fire exchange took place between security forces and terrorists in…
Gaza, Jan 11 (UNI) At least 40 people were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house adjacent to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, the media office of Hamas said in a statement. The statement added that a journalist named Ahmed Badir was killed in the attack, calling on…
Dhaka, Jan 11 (UNI) Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday appointed ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party leader Sheikh Hasina as the new prime minister of the South Asian country. This is Hasina’s fourth consecutive term as the country’s prime minister. The president also invited her to form a new government as her party has…
Baghdad, Jan 11 (UNI) Three Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in an airstrike in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday. Based on intelligence reports, Iraqi aircraft carried out an airstrike on IS hideouts in the rugged area of Wadi al-Shay southwest of the namesake provincial capital Kirkuk, some 250…
