Tag: Mass

Fighters backing Libya's new rulers fought their way Sunday to the gates of Bani Walid and were closing in on Sirte, poised for all-out...

Railway authorities have hinted at shutting down dozens of branch trains, considering them burden on the already cash-strapped service and also to streamline the...

Israel is to free 770 Israeli and Palestinian prisoners, including a founder of the Islamist movement Hamas, due to overcrowding, a prison services spokeswoman...

Anders Behring Breivik wants to tell Norway and the world why he killed at least 93 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage,...

Police on Monday said Taliban had released a video showing policemen being executed by firing squad after being captured in the northwest. A senior police...

A new era of urban transport shall be ushered with the Lahore Mass Transit Project (LMTP), Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said on...

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Friday between the Punjab government and Chinese international company Norinco regarding the Lahore Mass Transit Project. Under...

Thousands of protesters rallied across Egypt on Friday, capping a week of nationwide sit-ins to demand political change as anger grows with the military...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Egypt on Friday to defend the uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, directing their...

The number of bodies recovered from mass graves in this northern Mexican city rose to 241, public security officials said in updating the toll...

Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) is arranging an import of 100,000 tonnes of urea fertiliser to give a blow to the hoarders and to...

Whereas the cash-strapped government is busy the record dollar reserves augmented primarily by the export of wheat, rice, cotton and other commodities, the cynical...

After the killing of the world’s most wanted person, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Ladin, the Sindh government is set to start a mass...

KASUR - People have admired the benevolent act of Sufi Muhammad Anwar who organized mass marriages ceremony of 101 couples in Kasur College Ground.
They were of the view that there were many more deserving people whose daughters were turning old because their parents could not afford dowry for them. Certain such families told Pakistan Today that their daughters were sitting at home awaiting God-sent blessings in the shape of an arrangement for their dowries.
They said they

AMMAN - Syrian security forces opened fire on mourners near a mosque in the flashpoint city of Deraa after a mass funeral for pro-democracy protesters, two witnesses said on Saturday.
Security forces used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse thousands of people who were chanting freedom slogans after assembling near the old Omari mosque in the old quarter of the city, near the border with Jordan, the witnesses said. Dozens of people have been killed in a wave of protests

ABIDJAN - Mass graves have allegedly been found in western Ivory Coast as a picture emerged Saturday of carnage amid fierce post-election battles, which the ICRC said claimed 800 lives in a single day. The government of internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara said numerous mass graves had been found, "especially in Toulepleu, Blolequin and Guiglo, whose authors are none other than the loyal forces, mercenaries and militias of Laurent Gbagbo." The accusation came after

BERLIN - Tens of thousands of Germans took to the streets on Saturday to protest against nuclear power, increasing the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on the eve of a critical state election. Under the banner "Fukushima Means: No More Nuclear Power Stations," marches took place in Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and the capital Berlin, ahead of the vote in wealthy Baden-Wuerttemberg on Sunday, where nuclear energy was set to be a key issue. In Berlin alone, police said the "organisers'