Pakistani Authorities, on Wednesday, said an investigation showed that dust from soybeans was behind more than a dozen deaths in the port city of Karachi, local official said. Local Official, Hassan Sajid, said at least 14 people had so far died and more than 200 hospitalised since Sunday after the toxic gas engulfed the Kemari […]

The British government on Wednesday presented tougher post-Brexit immigration plans, aimed at reducing the flow of “low skills” labour. Home Secretary Priti Patel said that the Conservative government wanted to “encourage people with the right talent.” The envisaged system, due to take effect as of January 2021, would be based on a points-based immigration system […]

Two people have died in Iran after testing positive on Wednesday for the new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in the Islamic republic’s first cases of the disease. State news agency IRNA quoted Kianoush Jahanpour, a ministry spokesman, as saying the virus was detected in two elderly people with immunity problems in the holy city […]

Togo’s election authorities on Wednesday barred a main independent observer group from monitoring an upcoming poll expected to see President Faure Gnassingbe extend his family’s decades-long rule. The West African nation of 8 million holds a presidential ballot on Saturday with Gnassingbe cruising towards a fourth term in office after shrugging off a wave of […]

Chadian soldiers on Wednesday repelled an incursion into a volatile northern gold-mining region from neighbouring Libya, the army said. The rebel group, the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR), acknowledged the deadly fighting, saying its forces had carried out a “strategic pullback”. The clash took place early Wednesday near Kouri Bougoudi, […]