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Vancouver/IBNS: A state of emergency for the unincorporated Stikine region was declared by the province of British Columbia in response to the ongoing wildfire situation and expansion of campfire bans throughout the province.
A report received by Sindh Inspector-General of Police, Ghulam Nabi Memon, has shown widespread supply of drugs in schools and restaurants across the port city has been exposed, media reports said.
Quetta: At least two persons, including a Levies official, were killed and a child was injured when unknown armed men opened fire on the vehicle of a nephew of Pakistani minister Sardar Israr Tareen on Monday night, media reports said.
Beijing: Five people were confirmed dead and two others still missing following a fireworks explosion on early Tuesday in Liling, a county-level city under the administration of Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan Province.
New York: Transfer of crude oil from the dilapidated tanker Safer stranded off the coast of Yemen, is expected to start early next week, a senior United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council on Monday.
Kabul: The Taliban have suspended Swedish activities in Afghanistan starting Tuesday after the controversial Quran burning demonstration in Stockholm, a spokesperson for the Afghan culture committee said.
Kathmandu: At least six people, including five Mexicans, died in a helicopter crash in Nepal on Tuesday.
Peshawar: Pakistan's counter-terrorism department has claimed that the terrorist group Islamic State was behind the recent targeted attacks against religious scholars and members of minority groups in the provincial capital, media reports said.
Wuhan: Two people were killed and seven are missing after a landslide hit a highway construction site in central China's Hubei Province on Saturday, local authorities said on Monday.
A minibus crashed into a ravine in Afghanistan's Takhar on Monday which left at least one person dead and 18 others hurt, media reports said.
Mexico City: At least nine people were killed and one was injured in a fire at a wholesale food distribution center in Toluca, capital of the central State of Mexico, local authorities said Monday.
Toronto/IBNS: The newest Toronto For All Anti-Islamophobia Campaign was officially launched Monday at Nathan Phillips Square with guidance from a Community Advisory Council and the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was re-elected with 87.05 percent of the vote in his favour on Sunday, the country’s Central Election Commission announced Monday citing preliminary results.
Hangu: The police have claimed to have arrested four alleged terrorists, including a notorious commander, during a drug raid on a hideout of a proscribed militant organization in the mountainous areas of Pakistan's Hangu region.
Pakistan's military and civil leaders on Friday joined hands to tackle issues like food insecurity, malnutrition, and soaring import costs.
Popular micro-blogging site Twitter is believed to have bloc­ked access to the government of Pakistan’s official account in Gilgit-Baltistan and chan­ged the region’s location to parts of India, Dawn News reported.
Landi Kotal: Local tribal clerics in Pakistan have taken law into their hands and imposed a ban on playing music and dancing by transgender persons during weddings in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, media reports said on Monday.
Makranl At least three people died as an oil tanker, which was carrying diesel, turned upside down on Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan on Sunday.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has suspended one of its male presenters over the allegation that he had for several years paid a teenager for explicit content and will meet with the police on Monday in order to establish more facts, BBC News said.
Quetta: Unknown attackers shot dead a tribal elder in Pakistan's Quetta city on Saturday, media reports said.
Lianjiang: At least six people died and one person was injured in a knife attack outside a kindergarten in China's Lianjiang city, media reports said.
French authorities have banned the sale, possession, and transport of fireworks over the Bastille Day weekend next week amid fears of renewed riots.
Early presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on Sunday with incumbent President Shavkat Mirziyoyev expected to sweep the polls and return to power for another term.
Sanaa: The Houthi group in Yemen has banned the entry of Swedish imports into the country's north, which is under its control, in protest against the burning of a Quran during a protest in Sweden.
At least six people died and 10 others were hurt as a three-story building located on the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan's Punjab region collapsed due to a gas cylinder explosion on Sunday, media reports said.
Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a report that an indecent image appeared for a brief period of time while Super Mario Bros Movie was screened for children recently.
A man was arrested in Bangladesh's Jhenaidah region on suspicion of murdering his neighbour.
An American couple has claimed they were charged nearly $30,000 for an Uber ride in Costa Rica that should actually have been $55,media reports said.
At least six people died when a Cessna business jet crashed near French Valley Airport in Murrieta, California, on Saturday, media reports said.
At least seven passengers died when a gas cylinder installed in a passenger bus exploded in Sargodha city of Pakistan on Saturday, media reports said.
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