Saudi Arabia said that the kingdom did not want to see a further escalation of tensions in the region at a “very dangerous moment”, following Friday’s killing by a U.S. drone of Iran’s military commander Qassem Soleimani.

Indonesian country’s disaster agency on Monday warned of more heavy downpours as flooding and landslides hit the nation’s capital and its surrounding areas on New Year’s Day killing 66 people. Incessant rain started on New Year’s Eve, triggering flooding in Jakarta and its satellite cities, home to about 30 million people. In Lebak District, in […]

More than 20 people have been injured at a prestigious Indian university after masked attackers entered the campus in New Delhi and lashed out at students with batons. Amid simmering tensions over the government’s citizenship laws and student fee increases, videos on social media appeared to show the attackers roaming Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in […]

Students in several major Indian cities protested on Monday after students and teachers at Jawaharlal Nehru University were attacked by masked assailants. At least 35 students and some teachers were injured after masked men wielding rods and sticks went on a rampage on the campus and vandalised property on Sunday night. Tensions have been running […]

A mentally ill Chinese woman has reportedly been locked up by a farmer at his home for more than 20 years and forced to have children with him. Her self-proclaimed ‘husband’, 70-year-old Mr Dong, also beats her regularly and even sold two of their children, a neighbour has accused. Mr Dong, who lives in the […]

An Armenian man has been arrested for releasing “false information” on Facebook claiming the country’s prime minister had congratulated Donald Trump for killing Iran’s top general, the security service said Monday. According to Business Standard, “On January 2, the Facebook page ‘Diana Arutyunyan’ published information according to which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan congratulated the United […]

Tens of thousands of Iranians thronged the streets of Tehran on Monday for the funeral of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a U.S. airstrike last week and his daughter said his death would bring a “dark day” for the United States. “Crazy Trump, don’t think that everything is over with my […]

Three people, including a US service member and two civilians, have been killed in an al-Shabab attack on a military base in Kenya’s Lamu County used by US and Kenyan military personnel, the American military said. Two other Department of Defense personnel were wounded in the attack on Camp Simba. Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) said […]

A pastor in Mombasa County stunned faithful when he slit his own throat and died after stabbing his wife several times during a service on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/pWmmLL5S5e — Nation Africa (@NationAfrica) January 5, 2020 A Kenyan preacher stabbed his estranged wife and killed himself at the pulpit on Sunday in a church they co-founded in […]

United States President, Donald Trump has warned Tehran that the U.S. will target 52 Iranian sites if Iran attacks Americans in the wake of the killing of a top Iranian general. “Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 […]