Eight people died while 20 others injured as roof collapsed at a wedding ceremony on Wednesday in Pakistan’s northwest Kurram Tribal District, local media reported. According to the reports, the roof collapsed at the wedding ceremony in Pewar area of Parachinar Region of Kurram, a tribal district in the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The […]

Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), on Wednesday approved the extension of an emergency decree for 45 days to stem the spread of COVID-19.   The extension will span through the New Year festival and an international badminton tournament, CCSA spokesman, Taweesin Visanuyothin confirmed.   Taweesin also said that the CCSA had also approved […]

Iran’s launch of next-generation uranium enrichment equipment last week amounts to blackmail, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday. Tehran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif, said earlier that there was a realistic chance of mending the 2015 fraying nuclear accord under the upcoming U.S. presidency of Joe Biden. However, his conciliatory message came as the International […]

Protests erupted in northern Brazil’s Amapa state over a two-week power outage that has unleashed chaos in the region, officials and residents said Wednesday. Protesters blocked roads overnight with piles of burning tires and rubbish in the state capital, Macapa, and the city of Santana, police said in a statement. The latest unrest in the […]

Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, five years earlier than previously planned, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. This is part of what Johnson is casting as a “green revolution” to cut emissions to net zero by 2050. Johnson, who is grappling with Europe’s most […]