Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) KABUL – Afghan forces raided a hideout of the IS in Police District 8 of Afghanistan capital Kabul, killing several insurgents, chief spokesman of the Taliban-run caretaker administration Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday. Since the […]
An undated handout photo received from the New Zealand Police on Feb 8, 2023 shows some of the 3.2 tonnes of cocaine recovered adrift in the Pacific in an historic drugs bust estimated to be worth around $300m. (PHOTO / AFP) SYDNEY – New Zealand authorities said on Wednesday they had recovered 3.2 tonnes of […]
Women light candles during a prayer ceremony for victims of the Jan 30, 2023 suicide bombing inside a mosque, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Feb 1, 2023. Pakistani police have identified the suicide bomber. (PHOTO / AP) ISLAMABAD – The suicide bomber who killed more than 100 people at a mosque in a police compound in […]
Plain-clothed policemen and laborers remove debris beside a damaged mosque following January's 30 suicide blast inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Police investigating a suicide bombing that killed more than 100 people at a Pakistan mosque said on Tuesday that several people had been arrested, […]
Security personnel and rescue workers prepare to search for the blast victims in the debris of a damaged mosque inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on Jan 30, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Distraught relatives thronged hospitals in Pakistan's Peshawar on Tuesday to look for their kin a day after a suicide bombing […]
Security personnel and rescue workers prepare to search for the blast victims in the debris of a damaged mosque inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on Jan 30, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Monday's suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, that left dozens of people […]
Security officials inspect the site of a mosque blast inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on Jan 30, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar killed at least 32 people on Monday, the latest attack targeting police in this northwestern city where Islamist militants remain […]
Photo taken on Jan 25, 2023 shows roof tops are covered with snow in Nagano. (PHOTO / AFP) TOKYO — Rescuers in Japan could discern no vital signs on Monday in two foreign men, as yet unidentified, after they were swept up in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in the central prefecture of Nagano, police […]
The message US President Joe Biden expressed in his latest remarks on the death of Tyre Nichols on Friday after a conversation with the mother of the 29-year-old African American, who died on Jan 10, three days after five Memphis Police Department officers beat him during a traffic stop, is unequivocally clear: "I can only […]
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, in Kabul on Jan 15, 2023. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) KABUL – A former female member of Afghanistan's parliament has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said. Mursal Nabizada and her guard were shot […]
This photo taken on Oct 30, 2022 shows the site of a stampede accident in Itaewon, a district of Seoul, South Korea. (PHOTO / NEWSIS VIA XINHUA) SEOUL – South Korea's police on Friday said a lack of preparations and an inadequate response were the main causes of the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul last […]
SYDNEY – Australian police arrested a woman on Thursday on charges of entering and remaining in areas of Syria controlled by Islamic State, just over two months after the government repatriated 17 relatives of dead or jailed members of the group from Syria. Federal and New South Wales state police from the Joint Counter Terrorism […]
Firefighters spray water onto the site of a fire at the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet on Dec 29, 2022. (STR / AFP) PHNOM PENH – At least 19 people were killed in a massive fire that engulfed a hotel in northwest Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province, officials said late on Thursday. "In a preliminary […]
Firefighters spray water onto the site of a fire at the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet on Dec 29, 2022. (STR / AFP) PHNOM PENH – At least 10 people were killed and about 30 others suffered injuries in an intense fire inside a hotel and casino in northwest Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province, a […]
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu (center) attends a session to elect the new speaker of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) at its Plenum Hall in Jerusalem on Dec 13, 2022. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) JERUSALEM – Senior Israeli military officials and veterans have voiced concerns over possible control over key posts by the ultra-nationalist partners in […]
This undated handout photo released by the Australian Federal Police on April 5, 2017 shows planks of wood at a warehouse in the Victorian state suburb of Nunawading, east of Melbourne, where crystal methamphetamine was hidden in 70 boxes of floorboards. (HANDOUT / AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE / AFP) WELLINGTON – Australian Federal Police (AFP) said […]
Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu (center) attends a session to elect the new speaker of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) at its Plenum Hall in Jerusalem on Dec 13, 2022. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday he had secured a deal to form a new government after […]
Jordanian security forces deploy their armoured vehicles in the southern city of Maan, some 220 kms south of the capital Amman, on Dec 16, 2022 hours after a senior police officer was shot dead in riots during a strike against rising fuel prices in the area. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI / AFP) AMMAN — Jordan's Public Security […]
A general view of the Parliament House building during a session in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on May 23, 2018. (AMIR QURESHI / AFP) ISLAMABAD- Pakistan would raise the issue of Indian-supported terrorism activities in the country at the United Nations as well as at the international level, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has said. […]
SYDNEY — Six people, including two police officers, were killed in a gunfight at a remote property in Australia's Queensland state, authorities said on Tuesday, after police visited a home there to investigate a missing-person report. When four officers arrived about 4:30 pm on Monday at the property in Wieambilla, about 300 kilometers northwest of […]
Officers guard a road block on a street leading to a police station where an explosion went off in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Dec 7, 2022. (AHMAD FAUZAN / AP) BANDUNG, Indonesia – A suspected Islamist militant, angered by Indonesia's new criminal code, killed one other person and wounded at least 10 in a suicide […]
Officers guard a road block on a street leading to a police station where an explosion went off in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Dec 7, 2022. (AHMAD FAUZAN / AP) JAKARTA – Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday that two people were killed and several others wounded when a suspected Islamic militant carrying a knife blew […]
Pakistani security officials inspect a damaged truck at the site of suicide bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Nov 30, 2022. (ARSHAD BUTT / AP) QUETTA, Pakistan – A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a police escort for a polio vaccination team in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding more than […]
A woman, who is suspected of killing two children in New Zealand, sits on a car as she leaves Ulsan Jungbu police station in Ulsan, South Korea on Sept 15, 2022, for the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. (BAE BYUNG-SOO / NEWSIS VIA AP) SEOUL – South Korea has extradited to New Zealand a woman […]
Funeral workers prepare to remove the body of a crime suspect after he was killed in gunbattles late Aug 17, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. Philippine police killed drug and crime suspects in the overnight gunbattles in the capital. President Rodrigo Duterte expressed his satisfaction with the new spike in drug killings and reassured law enforcers […]
Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her release from police custody, in Tehran, Oct 27, 2022. (MIDDLE EAST IMAGES / AP) TEHRAN – Iran said on Tuesday that 40 foreign nationals had been arrested for involvement in the recent unrest in the country over the death of an Iranian woman after her […]
Security and ambulances at the scene after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue on Nov 13, 2022. (FRANCISCO SECO / AP) ANKARA — Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed to launch a ground operation "soon" in northern Syria against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). READ MORE: Türkiye president wants continued high-level […]
Police officials stand near a partly damaged car, after a car bomb exploded outside a police accommodation in Narathiwat town, southern Thailand, on Nov 22, 2022. (MADAREE THOLALA / AFP) BANGKOK – At least one person was killed when a car bomb exploded inside a police compound in southern Thailand on Tuesday, a police official said. "It […]
In this picture taken on on Nov 4, 2022, Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan addresses the media representatives at a hospital in Lahore, a day after an assassination attempt on him. (ARIF ALI / AFP) ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police on Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into a failed assassination attempt on former prime minister […]
A woman walks before the Opera House while it rains in Sydney on Oct 6, 2022. (MUHAMMAD FAROOQ / AFP) SYDNEY – Police of the Australian state of Victoria said on Saturday that a 71-year-old man was found dead in floodwaters in the backyard of his house at Rochester, a rural town in northern Victoria. […]