Tag: Deaths

Six more people succumbed to the dengue virus, increasing the official death toll to 111 during the current outbreak. However, independent sources said the...

Dengue fever continued taking its toll as the number of cases reached an alarming level in Punjab on Saturday. Reportedly, two patients Mudassir 20 and...

Drought and famine-blighted Somalia is at a “turning point” as conditions decline with hundreds of thousands more people likely to die in coming months,...

Heavy rains and floods across China have left 57 people dead, dozens of others missing and hundreds injured, while more than a million residents...

At least 26 people were killed and more than 63 others injured in a suicide attack on a funeral attended by leaders of an...

Feeling of grief and sorrow continued to grip Peshawar for the second day on Wednesday over the martyrdom of four school going children in...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that military operations against protest towns have "stopped," a UN spokesman said, amid...

The Sindh government has finally revived the local government system on August 8 by revoking the commissionerate system with the sole purpose of appeasing...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday announced a targeted operation by Rangers in Karachi as Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain gave the...

Pakistan's government on Wednesday launched a campaign to end bloody clashes in the city of Karachi after at least 200 people were killed since...

Indian detectives trawled for leads on Saturday to the triple blasts which rocked the country's financial hub, Mumbai, as the death toll from the...

The first half of this year was the deadliest six months for civilians in Afghanistan since the decade-old war began, the country's U.N. mission...

The Indian state of West Bengal has ordered an investigation into the deaths of 17 newborn babies at a children’s hospital after distraught parents...

NATO has admitted it destroyed a house in Tripoli in which Libyan officials said nine civilians were killed, an incident likely to sow new...

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged a visiting United States (US) delegation on Tuesday to scale back night raids and military operations causing civilian casualties. The call came as he met John Boehner, US House Speaker, who is leading a six-member delegation from the House of Representatives that also visited Pakistan this week.
"The Afghanistan president said the people of Afghanistan highly appreciate the assistance given by the US in past 10 years but they want the

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. human rights chief called on Friday for an independent investigation into the deaths of 34 people at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq after Iraqi security forces moved against it last week.
"It now seems certain that at least 34 people were killed in Camp Ashraf, including seven or more women," U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said. "Most were shot, and some appear to have been crushed to death, presumably by vehicles."
A U.N. spokesman said

DAMASCUS - Syria is launching an immediate probe into the deaths of "civilians and troops" in Daraa and Latakia, two cities that have emerged as the focal points of protests, state media reported Thursday.
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has charged the head of the judges' council with forming a committee to begin an investigation, effective immediately, into the deaths of civilians and troops in the governorates of Daraa and Latakia," read a report on the state-run SANA news