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KABUL: Afghan forces on Thursday claimed to have killed six terrorists of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and injured over a dozen in an action in Khost province.  Well-informed sources said Afghan defence forces targeted the hideout of TTP terrorists in Khost province with the IED. As a result TTP commanders namely, Abdul Manan, Alam Khan Mudakhel, Khujeer and three others …

President Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Wednesday that elections will be held on May 14, sticking to his previous plan for the vote with a date just over three months after a devastating earthquake killed more than 45,000 people in Turkiye. “This nation will do what is necessary on May 14, God willing,” Erdogan said in a speech to lawmakers from his ruling …

A passenger train and a cargo train collided head-on in Greece on Tuesday night, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens as the country’s deadliest rail crash in living memory threw entire carriages off the tracks. The death toll was expected to rise further, a fire brigade official said. Sixty-six of those injured were hospitalised, six of whom in …

LONDON: A ‘doomsday’ Arctic seed vault on Norway’s Spitsbergen island is set to receive its most diverse batch of seed donations yet as efforts to secure the world’s food supplies ramp up amid rising climate concerns. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built to protect the world’s food stock from disasters ranging from nuclear war to global warming, will add 19,500 …

TAIPEI: Around a dozen demonstrators stormed a stage where Taipei’s new mayor was speaking on Tuesday, calling him a murderer and demanding he apologises for the bloodshed during a 1947 massacre in Taiwan. Protesters were furious that Mayor Chiang Wan-an was hosting the memorial service because his purported great-grandfather, president Chiang Kai-shek, oversaw the violent suppression nearly eight decades ago. …

VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed on Tuesday it had detected particles of uranium enriched to 83.7 per cent in Iran, just under the 90pc needed to produce an atomic bomb. Asked about the particles found in Iran, the government in Tehran said “unintended fluctuations” during the enrichment process “may have occurred”. In 2015, Iran reached a deal with world powers to …

WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday gave federal agencies 30 days to purge Chinese-owned video-snippet sharing app TikTok from all government-issued devices, setting a deadline to comply with a ban ordered by the US Congress. Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on government agencies within 30 days to “remove and disallow installations” of the …

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray told Fox News. His comments follow a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday that …

WASHINGTON: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) aims to push the government of Pakistan out of Khyber Pakh­tunkhwa and establish Sharia by waging a terrorist campaign against the military and state, a US State Department report warns. According to the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism, the TTP uses the tribal belt along the Afghan­istan-Pakistan border to train and deploy its operatives. TTP …

Indian billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani and actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra were the victims of bomb threats on Tuesday. The threat came a day after Ambani was awarded Z-plus security on the on the orders of the Indian Supreme Court. Mumbai’s Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) received a phone call from an anonymous source after which the the Mumbai Police were informed about the …