Queen passes away at 96

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, Reuters reports. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” it said in a statement. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return Continue Reading

Imran Khan: Pakistan police charge ex-PM under terrorism act

August 22, 2022

NEWS DESK Pakistan’s police have charged the country’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, under anti-terror laws, BBC reports. Their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide. Mr Khan’s supporters gathered outside his house vowing to “take over” if he was arrested. However, he has now Continue Reading

Greece protests to Serbia, Ukraine over Bangladesh-bound cargo plane crash

July 18, 2022

NEWS DESK Greece has protested to Serbia and Ukraine for not being timely informed about the munitions cargo on board a Ukrainian aircraft which crashed near the northern city of Kavala on Saturday night, Greek diplomatic sources said on Monday, Reuters reports. The Antonov An-12 carrying 11.5 tonnes of defence products made in Serbia, including […]Continue Reading

Cargo plane carrying defence products for Bangladesh crashes in Greece

July 18, 2022

NEWS DESK A Ukrainian cargo plane carrying munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece late on Saturday, Serbian authorities said on Sunday, July 17, 2022, Reuters reports. Drone images from the scene showed debris from the bulking Antonov An-12 aircraft strewn in fields. Greek authorities said there were […]Continue Reading

Ukraine Muslims pray for victory, end of Russian invasion

July 13, 2022

NEWS DESK By the time the Russians invaded, 43-year-old Mufti Said Ismahilov – one of the Muslim spiritual leaders of Ukraine – had already resolved that he would step aside from his religious duties to fight for his country, Al Jazeera reports. At the end of last year, as warnings of an imminent attack grew […]Continue Reading

NASA to showcase Webb space telescope’s first full-colour images

July 12, 2022

NEWS DESK Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-colour images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, Reuters reports. The highly anticipated Jul 12 unveiling of pictures and spectroscopic data […]Continue Reading

Sri Lanka to get new president next week amid political and economic meltdown

July 11, 2022

NEWS DESK Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on July 20, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current president and prime minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown, Reuters reports. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing of the Tamil Tigers […]Continue Reading

Thai police rescue 59 Rohingya refugees abandoned on southern island

June 5, 2022

Thailand had rescued 59 Rohingya refugees, including children, from an island who had been abandoned by people smugglers on an island close to the Malaysian border, police said on Sunday, Reuters reports. The Rohingya – 31 men, 23 women, and five children – were found on Dong island in Satun province, which borders Malaysia, assistant […]Continue Reading

Pakistan says it foiled suspected suicide attack against Chinese nationals

May 16, 2022

Pakistani police arrested a would-be suicide bomber who planned to blow herself up near a convoy of Chinese nationals along the China Pakistan Economic-Corridor (CPEC), a police statement said, Reuters reports. Monday’s arrest came two weeks after a woman suicide bomber blew herself up on a university campus in the southern port city of Karachi, […]Continue Reading

Sri Lanka PM resigns amid protests

May 9, 2022

Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has dominated Sri Lankan politics for nearly 20 years and whose government crushed the Tamil Tigers to bring an end to a long civil war, resigned as prime minister on Monday after intensifying anti-government protests, Reuters reports. In a statement, his office said he was quitting in order to help form an […]Continue Reading