Bangladesh has announced it would build one of the world’s biggest refugee camps to house all the 800,000-plus Rohingya Muslims who have...
In probably the worst shooting incident in American history, at least 50 people were killed and over 400 others injured in a...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a record fourth term , but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two...
The late Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, has slammed former president Pervez Musharraf for accusing their father...
Rescuers dug Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 230 people in Mexico, as the nation watched...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico , killing at least 139 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust and thousands...
Source: Screenshot of UN’s official site After a prolonged decline, the global hunger appears to be on the rise again. The number...
The Islamic State has claimed the ‘bucket bomb’ attack on a packed underground train at a London station on Friday, injuring at...
British police have said after investigation that they were treating a blast on an underground train at Parsons Green tube station in...
The UN Security Council has expressed concern over violence in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state from where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled...
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