UNI

Johannesburg: At least 20 people have been killed and 43 more have been injured in a fire that engulfed a multi-story building in South Africa's capital, Johannesburg, the News24 portal reported Thursday.The official account for the city of Johannesburg...

Kuala Lampur: Malaysia celebrated the 66th anniversary of its independence with parades, fireworks and large scale gatherings on Thursday under the theme of unifying ties between its diverse groups.Shortly after midnight Wednesday, thousands of Malaysians marked the occasion through...

Kabul: A total of 75 Afghan inmates imprisoned in Pakistan have been set free and returned to their homeland Afghanistan through the Torkham border on Tuesday, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Wednesday.So far, Pakistan has handed over...

Tokyo: Japan will use tools within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to respond to the seafood import ban imposed on it by China over the release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP), Japanese Chief Cabinet...

Taluqan: Three miners have been killed after they were trapped underground in a collapsed mine in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, an official said on Wednesday.Several miners were working in a tunnel of a gold mine in Rastaq district on...

Kampala: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned 200 prisoners on health and humanitarian grounds, prisons authorities said here.Frank Baine, spokesperson of the Uganda Prisons Service, told Xinhua by telephone on Tuesday that those pardoned were all Ugandans.He also said...

Chengdu: Four people were confirmed dead and 48 others missing, after rainstorms hit Jinyang County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Aug. 21, local authorities said Wednesday.Yuan Gang, deputy director of the provincial public security...

Addis Ababa: Clashes in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region have killed at least 183 people since July, a United Nations (UN) official said on Tuesday.Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said...

Moscow: Il-76 military transport planes caught fire in the Russian city of Pskov, where a Ukrainian drone attack took place earlier in the day, the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said Wednesday."On August 29 at...

Islamabad: Two policemen have been killed and three others injured in an attack in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.The policemen were on a routine patrolling duty in Lakki Marwat district of the province on Monday when they...