Paris, July 28 (IANS) Three people were injured in a knife attack in Paris, and a male suspect was arrested. The attack occurred at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday (local time) in northwestern Paris, where a man armed with two kitchen knives attacked passersby on the street. The victims received medical treatment, with two of them in critical condition, reports Xinhua news agency, citing French media reports.The suspect was apprehended at the scene by an off-duty police officer. He had provided “onl…
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Moscow, July 26 (IANS) Russian forces carried out overnight strikes on defence enterprises in Kyiv, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday.The Ministry said in a statement on its official Telegram Channel that Russia launched a group strike with high-precision ground- and air-based weapons, which hit enterprises of the defence industry of Ukraine in the city of Kyiv.”Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision ground- and air-based weap…
Islamabad, July 26 (IANS) Pakistan’s monsoon death toll has risen to 97 after 11 more people were killed and 25 others injured in rain-related incidents, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.Eastern Punjab province remained the worst-hit during the latest reporting period, recording seven deaths and 20 injuries. Southern Sindh reported two deaths and two injuries, while northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and northern Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) region each…
Tehran, July 26 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi called on the EU to take “decisive” action against Ukraine’s targeting of an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea.He made the remarks on Saturday in a phone call with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, in which the two sides discussed the latest regional developments, according to a statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.Araghchi condemned the Ukrainian attack, urging the EU, UN Security Council, and international com…
Berlin, July 26 (IANS) One person was killed and 17 others were injured, including several with life-threatening injuries, after a car drove into a crowd at a large Pride celebration in central Berlin on Saturday evening, a police spokesperson said.The incident occurred during the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade, Berlin’s largest Pride celebration. Police said on social media platform X that shortly before 10 p.m. local time (2000 GMT), the driver of a white vehicle drove into the crowd, Xin…
Guangzhou, July 25 (IANS) More than 340,000 people had been relocated in south China’s Guangdong Province by 4 pm Saturday as Typhoon Noul approached the coast, the provincial flood, drought and typhoon control authorities said.Typhoon Noul, the 12th typhoon of the year, is expected to make landfall along the coast between Shenzhen and Huilai in Guangdong between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, with an intensity ranging from typhoon to severe typhoon level, Xinhua News Agency reported.China…
Kabul, July 25 (IANS) A total of 14,539 Afghan refugee families, totalling 97,277 individuals, returned to their homeland, Afghanistan, from the neighbouring countries of Pakistan and Iran over the past month, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan government announced on Saturday.The returnees entered Afghanistan through the Islam Qala border in western Herat province, the Torkham crossing point in eastern Nangarhar province, Spin Boldak in southern Kandahar province, Pul-e-Abresham in western Nim…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday stated that the right of navigation through international waterways remains important as per the international law.“When it comes to the passage of commercial shipping or right of navigation, we continue to stress that it’s important that right of navigation be allowed through international waterways as per international law. It is important for global shipping, economic security of the world and the energy security of …
London, July 24 (IANS) A vessel carrying 30 crew members reported coming under attack and issued a distress call near the Strait of Hormuz, according to audio recordings from a public VHF maritime radio channel obtained exclusively by Xinhua from a seafarer on Friday.In one recording, a caller identified by the seafarer as a US military operator repeatedly warned a merchant vessel that it was “non-compliant” for continuing toward Iranian waters.”You are non-compliant by continuing towards Iran. …
Washington, July 24 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that any future damages to ships, cargo or related property will be paid using Iranian funds held under US control.”Please let this statement serve to represent, until further notice, that from this point forth, any and all damages done to Ships, Cargo, or anything related thereto, will be paid for by Iranian Money that the United States has in its possession, and controls,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.”These damages may be very …