Sanaa, Mar 16 (UNI) At least nine people were killed and nine others wounded in the U.S. airstrikes on Houthi sites in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday night, said the Houthi-run Health Ministry. “The number of victims killed by the U.S. aggression reached to nine and nine others were wounded,” the ministry said in…
Beirut/Jerusalem, Mar 9 (UNI) One person was killed and another critically injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media and sources. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that Israel carried out a drone strike on a vehicle in Kherbet Selm, located in the central sector of the border region…
Kathmandu, Feb. 28 (UNI) A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit central Nepal on Friday morning, leaving one person injured and several houses damaged, a local official said. The tremor hit at 2:51 local time, with the epicenter in Sindhupalchok district of Bagmati Province, said Ganesh Nepali, assistant chief district officer. And the jolt was felt in Kathmandu,…
Istanbul, Feb 27 (UNI) Talks between U.S. and Russian delegations on bilateral issues concluded in Istanbul on Thursday, according to Xinhua reporters on the scene. The meeting, held at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul and conducted behind closed doors, lasted over six hours. The Russian delegation departed the premises at 4:20 p.m. local time…
Gaza, Feb. 27 (UNI) Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Wednesday night to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a source with Hamas told Xinhua. Al-Qassam Brigades handed over the bodies to the ICRC team, and the team will deliver them to the…
Gaza, Feb. 27 (UNI) Israeli authorities on Thursday began releasing more than 600 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, according to Palestinian sources. Palestinian sources told Xinhua that buses carrying the prisoners departed from Ofer Prison in the central West Bank, heading toward a reception…
Beijing, Feb 24 (UNI) Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group will invest more than 380 billion yuan (about $53 billion) in building cloud and hardware infrastructure for artificial intelligence, the Xinhua news agency reports. Chinese publication Penpai noted that these investments were a record volume of investments by Chinese private enterprises in the creation of cloud…
Islamabad, Feb 17 (UNI) Eleven people were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Sunday, local media and police said. One of the accidents occurred in the Multan district in a traffic pile-up involving a passenger van, a car, and a motorbike, resulting in six deaths…
Bamkao, Feb. 16 (UNI) At least 48 people, most of them women, were killed on Saturday when an “illegally operated gold mining site” collapsed in western Mali, according to consistent eyewitness accounts from the area. The tragedy occurred in Bilalkoto, a village in the commune of Dabia, located in the Kenieba district of the Kayes…
Islamabad, (UNI) At least 11 people were killed and six others injured on Friday in a bomb blast near a vehicle in Harnai district of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, media reports said. Deputy Commissioner of Harnai Hazrat Wali told Xinhua that a roadside bomb blast hit a vehicle carrying labourers in the Shahrag area of…
