Shelling at a market in Sennar in southeast Sudan killed 21 people and wounded another 67 on Sunday, a medical source told AFP, blaming paramilitaries for the attack. The Sudan Doctors Network, which was set up after the start of the war in April 2023, reported a similar death count, but said the number of…
A blaze destroyed a dormitory at a Kenyan school on Sunday, police said, the third such incident in just days. A dorm at Njia Boys High School in the central county of Meru caught fire as students were having supper and no casualties were reported, a police statement said. The building housing about 150 students…
The governor of Russia’s southern Belgorod region said on Sunday Ukrainian forces attacked a fuel depot, triggering a series of fires after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of launching overnight attacks on border regions. “The Ukrainian military, aided by lethal drones, attacked a fuel storage site in Volokonovsky district,” Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram,…
Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan gathered in Islamabad on Sunday despite authorities’ attempts to block the protesters’ main routes into the capital, AFP journalists noted. The demonstration, led by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, is the largest in Islamabad since the retired international cricketer was jailed last year on several…
Poland’s longest river, the Vistula, on Sunday hit a record-low water level in the capital because of drought, the national weather agency said. Its level at one Warsaw measuring station fell to 25 centimetres (10 inches), beating the last record by a centimetre, according to the IMGW weather institute. “It’s worse than in 2015 —…
Rejecting the media reports stating that his visit to the US to meet some top leaders, including former US President Barack Obama and US Vice President Kamala Harris, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar clarified on Sunday that the visit was purely personal. “I am travelling to the US along with my family till September…
Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, while interacting with the students at the University of Texas at Dallas in the US, said that one must focus and choose their battles carefully. Talking about whether his perspective changed as compared to the beginning of his career and now, Mr Gandhi said…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday on a two-day visit to attend the first India-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers’ meeting. Mr Jaishankar is in Riyadh on the first leg of his three-nation tour that will also take him to Germany and Switzerland. “Arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…
An Akasa Air passenger has complained that the airline allegedly served expired food packets to passengers onboard a Gorakhpur-Bengaluru flight on Saturday, following which the airline said it is undertaking a detailed probe into the incident. After the passenger took to social media to air the grievance, the airline admitted that a few passengers were…
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Sunday that the Congress is going to be “wiped out” no matter how many alliances it makes for the October 5 Assembly elections. About the ongoing talks between the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to forge a pre-poll alliance for the upcoming elections, CM Saini said…
