Police in Pakistan said a hardline Islamist group had taken six security personnel hostage at its headquarters in Lahore on Sunday after a week of violent clashes following the arrest of the group's leader ... The authorities responded by arresting its leader, prompting supporters to hold protests and sit-ins across Pakistan ... .
Nearly 800 people were killed by police in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro in the past nine months, as raids remain a terrifying routine for favela families – despite a supreme court ruling to halt incursions during the coronavirus pandemic ...Black lives shattered. outrage as boy, 14, is Brazil police's latest victim. Read more ... Photograph ... .
Tehran. Iran has asked Interpol to help arrest a suspect in a sabotage attack on its Natanz nuclear facility which it blames on Israel, a local newspaper reported Sunday ... The broadcaster said the suspect had “fled the country before the incident” and that “legal procedures to arrest and return him to the country are currently underway” ... .
Nasa hopes to score a 21st-centuryWright Brothers moment and make history on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Landmark achievements in science and technology can seem humble by conventional measurements ... .
ZAYTSEVE, Ukraine — On the frontline in Ukraine's east, battle-weary soldiers are sceptical that US sanctions against Moscow and Kiev's appeal for NATO help will deter Russian PresidentVladimir Putin... The separatists, who have carved out two "People's Republics" in eastern Ukraine, are backed by Russia ... Most of them were victims of sniper fire.
MOSCOW (AP) — Activists for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday called for massive protests in the heart of Moscow and St. Petersburg as Navalny’s health reportedly is deteriorating severely while on hunger strike ... We don’t know how long he can hold on.. But it is clear we do not have time.” ... Navalny was arrested on Jan.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police in Bangladesh on Sunday arrested an influential leader of an Islamist group that led violent protests against last month’s visit by India’s prime minister to the Muslim-majority nation, officials said ... In Dhaka, they clashed with police outside the country’s main Baitul MokarramMosque during the visit.
SEOUL, South Korea — The United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before PresidentJoe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. . The agreement was reached by U.S ... We all need to see what happens." ...The U.S ... .
In Paris’s symbolic Place de la République, under the watchful gaze of France’s allegorical figurehead Marianne, the skateboarders are not in the mood to discuss politics. For the young here, as everywhere, life has been paused during a pandemic that has halted studies, jobs, socialising and parties ...Outside Paris it is a different story ... Photograph ... .
Two more top-level directors could be ousted from Boeing’s board of directors next week as family members of the victims of two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets join shareholders to push for further high-level reforms at the aerospace giant. Denver plane engine fire consistent with metal fatigue in fan blade, say investigators. Read more ... He said ... .
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage for a second year, another pandemic has managed to persist for over three decades and has continued to claim thousands of lives a year—the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ... A Deadly Virus ... So far, around 33 million people in total have succumbed to the deadly infection ... Eventually, the host is killed ... .
Myanmar's military announced it had pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the new year holiday. However, it is not clear whether they included pro-democracy activists who were detained in protests after the military coup in February ... He also reduced sentences for others ... .
Iran's state television on Saturday identified a man it said was behind a recent explosion and power outage at its main Natanz nuclear plant. "Reza Karimi, the perpetrator of this sabotage... has been identified" by Iran's intelligence ministry, state TV said ... The card listed his age as 43 ... Lahav Harkov contributed to this report. .
Russia on Sunday expelled 20 Czech diplomats in retaliation for a slew of diplomatic expulsions by Prague and gave the affected Czech diplomats just over 24 hours to leave the country, the RIA news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying ... In an earlier statement on Sunday, the Russian foreign ministry called the Czech announcement “absurd” ... .