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Larkana: Activists of Shia Ulema Council, Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto, Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party and Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan recently demonstrated outside the local press club against spiking inflation and shortage of flour on Friday, media reports said.
Dera Ghazi Khan: A police official and a civilian were killed, and one police official was injured in a drive-by attack by two motorcyclists at the Jhangi police checkpoint in Pakistan recently, media reports said on Sunday.
Islamabad: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif has said it was a matter of shame that his nation needed to beg amid a falling economic state despite being a nuclear powered nation.
Sindh: Pakistan's Sindh High Court on Friday directed the provincial home secretary to inform it under what scheme of law the special commandos of police were assigned to escort the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party leaders under the title of very important persons (VIPs), media reports said on Sunday.
Pokhara: A video has gone viral on the internet which allegedly captured the last moments of the Yet Airlines flight which crashed in Nepal's Pokhara city on Sunday.
Islamabad: Pakistan is witnessing widespread protests from Gilgit-Baltistan in the north to Gwadar port city in the south with people expressing discontent over the regime, media reports said.
Kabul: A new package of 40 million US dollars in cash as humanitarian aid has been delivered to Afghanistan and deposited in one of the commercial banks in Kabul, said a statement from Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the country's central bank, released here on Sunday.
Kiev: Ukraine is considering the possibility of withdrawing from Bakhmut, also known as Artyomovsk, to spare troops and weapons ahead of an anticipated counteroffensive elsewhere on the battlefield, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing the Ukrainian military.
Pokhara: At least 68 people died when a Yeti Airlines plane, which had 72 passengers onboard, crashed upon landing at Pokhara International Airport in Nepal's Kaski district on Sunday.
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban government has said a former woman member of the country's Parliament and one of her security guards have been killed in Kabul city, media reports said on Sunday.
Kabul: Taliban has made it clear easing restrictions on women, including ban from universities and working in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), is not on the list of its priorities, reported Khaama Press.
A reconciliation between Prince Harry and the British Royal family could take place before the coronation of King Charles III later this year, media reports said.
Kathmandu: At least 40 of the 72 people onboard Yeti Airlines operated ATR 72 aircraft have been killed after the aircraft crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara this morning, Reuters reported.
Bloomington (USA): Police in USA’s Bloomington arrested a 56-year-old woman on the charge of stabbing an 18-year-old Asian student on a public bus in the city, AFP reported.
Kathmandu/IBNS: A Kathmandu-bound plane carrying about 72 people onboard crashed in Nepal's Pokhara on Sunday morning, Yeti Airlines said.
Moscow: A total of 36 British citizens, including Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs James Cleverly, have been recently banned from entering Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Tehran: Former Iranian deputy defense minister Alireza Akbari was executed on charges of "espionage against the country," the Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported on Saturday.
Dhaka: At least three pilgrims have died at the Biswa Ijtema grounds in Bangladesh town of Tongi on Saturday, media reports said.
New York: The UN Security Council must be unified in opposing Taliban policies to erode the fundamental human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, the UN’s Special Representative there said on Friday.
Istanbul: An armed assault was carried out on a car on the Golden Horn Bridge in the center of Istanbul, killing one person, Turkish media reported on Saturday.
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, welcomed on Friday the Indonesian President’s statement of regret earlier this week, for serious rights violations dating back to the 1960s.
The Greek authorities faced an appeal on Friday from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, to dismiss the trial of two dozen aid workers who rescued migrants in distress at sea.
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Lotus Tower management has said strict action will be taken against people who vandalized the structure.
Islamabad: At least three police personnel were killed during an exchange of gunfire with terrorists during an overnight assault at a police station in Peshawar city, media reports said on Saturday.
Kabul: Residence of former Afghanistan Minister of Justice Fazal Ahmad Manavi in Rukha district has been set on fire, media reports said on Saturday.
Brasilia: The Attorney General's Office of Brazil has asked the country's Supreme Court to probe former President Jair Bolsonaro as part of an investigation into the incitement and organization of riots that led to the temporary seizure of government buildings in the capital city of Brasilia.
Washington: A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has died in the US state of California after the local police used a Taser on him following a traffic incident, which he presumably had caused, a body-cam footage published by the Los Angeles police showed.
London: More than 70,000 employees at 150 universities in the United Kingdom will go on an 18-day strike over pay and attacks on pensions between February and March, University and College Union (UCU) announced on Thursday.
Krasnoyarsk: One person has been killed, and four others have been poisoned by a mixture of gas emitted by a generator during repair work in the Motyginsky district in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region, a source with the region's emergency services told Sputnik on Friday.
Beijing: Experts believe that China's population shrank last year for the first time in decades, media reports said on Friday.
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