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Melbourne, Jan. 1 (UNI) Two men have been hospitalized with serious injuries following a late-night New Year’s Eve stabbing in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. The police force in the state of Victoria said in a statement on Thursday that emergency services were called around 11:45 p.m. local time on Wednesday after a group of up to…
Damascus, Jan 1 (UNI) One person was killed, and several members of Syria’s internal security forces were wounded on Wednesday after a suicide bomber targeted a police patrol in the Bab al-Faraj area of northern Syria’s Aleppo city, according to several state media reports. SANA news agency reported that the attacker detonated himself near a…
Dhaka/New Delhi, Dec 31 (UNI) India and Bangladesh will look forward to script a new chapter in bilateral ties, following the visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Dhaka for the funeral of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia, the Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Riaz Hamidullah has said. Hamidullah, who was summoned back…
Helsinki, Dec 31 (UNI) A total of 16 people were injured after a bus crashed into the facade of a building in Liljeholmen, a district in southern Stockholm, on Tuesday afternoon, local authorities said. Region Stockholm said seven people were taken to hospital, including two who were seriously injured, while nine others sought care at…
Ottawa, Dec 31 (UNI) One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting early Tuesday at Big Island Lake Cree Nation in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, local media reported. According to the report, Saskatchewan police were informed of a shooting about 392 kilometers northwest of the city of Saskatoon. A dangerous…
Lima, Dec 31 (UNI) A head-on train crash on the rail line leading to Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu on Tuesday killed one person and injured at least 30 others, local authorities said. The crash occurred near Qoriwayrachina in the southern Cusco region, where two tourist trains collided, according to police. The victim…
Beijing, Dec 31 (UNI/SPUTNIK) Russia and China actively expanded trade and economic cooperation in 2025, while mutual visa-free travel facilitated people-to-people exchanges, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. “Russia and China actively expanded trade and economic cooperation, and major cooperation projects are steadily moving forward,” Putin said in his New Year’s message to Chinese…
Jerusalem/Ramallah, Dec. 31 (UNI) A Palestinian man was shot dead in his car by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli military and Palestinian sources said. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that three people were critically wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle near the village of Einabus in…
Shantanu Mukharji A prominent figure in Bangladesh’s politics for more than forty years, Begum Khaleda Zia rose from an ordinary housewife’s life to become the country’s first woman Prime Minister and one of the most influential leaders in South Asia’s post-independence history. Her political career was moulded by military rule, mass movements, electoral politics and…
Dhaka, Dec 30 (UNI) The funeral of Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s former prime minister, is likely to be held at Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on Wednesday. “Khaleda Zia’s namaz-e-janaza may be held on Manik Mia Avenue in the capital tomorrow, Wednesday,” BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed said as reported by Prothom Alo….
