Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said on Saturday. Gangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities across northwestern Nigeria in recent years, while Islamist militants continue to stage attacks in the…
Emine Dzhaparova, Ukraine’s first deputy foreign affairs minister, will be in India on Monday for a four-day official visit. This marks the first high-level visit from Ukraine to India since the Russia-Ukraine war began last year. Dzhaparova’s visit will involve discussions with Sanjay Verma, secretary (West) of the ministry of external affairs (MEA). She also will…
Israel’s defense minister on Saturday extended a closure barring entrance to Israel for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip for the duration of the Jewish holiday of Passover, while police beefed up forces in Jerusalem on the eve of sensitive religious celebrations. The moves come after days of violence across the region…
Chinese researchers in a study suggested wild animals sold at the market were susceptible to Covid-19. Chinese researchers have published an eagerly awaited analysis of the data collected from the Wuhan market in China, which has been at the centre of controversy regarding the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers found genetic material from wild animals in the…
At least four people were killed in a shooting in southern Thailand on Saturday, police said, with local media reporting that officers were still searching for the suspect. The attack started at about 5pm in Khiri Rat Nikhom district in Surat Thani province — roughly 600 km south of the capital Bangkok. “Four people died,” local head…
Karan Johar put up a Hindi poem online addressing several lies and allegations against him. He indicated that he was not phased by the recent talk about him. On Saturday, Karan Johar seemingly responded to a few members of Bollywood who had slammed him after an old video had surfaced showing him ‘admitting’ to try and sabotage…
PM Modi clicked the seflie during his one-day visit to Tamil Nadu’s Chennai where he launched projects worth ₹5,200 crore on Saturday. A special selfie…In Chennai I met Thiru S. Manikandan. He is a proud @BJP4TamilNadu Karyakarta from Erode, serving as a booth president. A person with disability, he runs his own shop and the…
Pakistan-born Oscar-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is set to become the first woman and person of colour to direct a Star Wars film. Studio executives on Friday announced three new Star Wars movies are in the making, with the first slated for release in 2025 Obaid Chinoy will direct a film set 15 years after the end of the last movie, starring…
At least 20 people are missing after a boat attempting to cross Mediterranean sank off Tunisia, according to an official, amid a sharp rise in the number of refugees trying to reach Europe by boat from the North African country. The coastguard rescued 17 others, two of whom are in critical condition, after the boat sank off the…
China has begun three days of mil itary exercises around Taiwan amid anger in Beijing over Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting in California with the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy. China, which claims Taiwan as its own and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve its aims,…
