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The death toll in the Saturday’s bombings in Peshawar’s Khyber Super Market has risen to 35 while the routine business activities in the locality...

A rush of gastro and heatstroke patients was witnessed in the hospitals as the severe heat spell prolonged in the provincial metropolis. People engaged...

More than 1,500 people have died this year in violence across southern Sudan, the United Nations said, ahead of the region’s independence in July....

The death toll from the late Sunday night’s suicide bombing on an army-run bakery in Nowshera rose to 19 when a teenage girl succumbed...

The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) for the last couple of months has been underperforming at the equity market due to the bank’s soaring...

An E. coli outbreak linked to contaminated cucumbers that has killed 14 people and made more than 300 seriously ill in Germany has spread...

Syrian troops killed three people and wounded several others on Saturday in the border town of Tall Kalakh, a witness said, as the toll...

KARACHI - ILL planned policy announcements made by the federal and provincial governments during the current fiscal year which critics allege are politically-motivated have started taking a toll on ailing national economy. Giving a 50 and 15 percent raise, respectively, in the salaries and pensions of government employees in the center and provinces, the critics opine that the decision that was apparently worker-friendly but 'irrational' if analysed in the context of present cash

SANAA - Protesters kept up the heat on President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday as deaths mounted in the flashpoint city of Taez, even as a dissident general denied aiming to replace the Yemeni leader.
On the regional scene, Yemen recalled its ambassador to Qatar, state news agency Saba announced, after a call from the Gulf state for Saleh to step down stirred anger in Sanaa. And the army shelled a suspected Al-Qaeda refuge in southern Yemen, after the United States expressed

SANAA - Western pressure mounted on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Tuesday to stand down as least 24 people were killed in as many hours and Gulf states sought to mediate a deal with the opposition. A spokesman for Yemen's main opposition coalition, in an initial reaction to an offer by the Gulf Cooperation Council, said Saleh's foes were ready for a conditional mediation.
"We have welcomed (a GCC invitation) and said we will attend, but to discuss a transfer of power

BANGKOK - A total of 47 people were confirmed killed by the flash floods and mudslides in southern Thailand, authority said on Tuesday.
The department of Disaster Pravention and Mitigation said Nakorn Si Thammarat is the most deadly province where 20 people died in floods caused by heavy rains that have pummeled the coastline of the Gulf of Thailand since March 23.
Provinces hit by major flooding are Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Surat Thani, Trang, Chumphon, Songkhla,

DERA GHAZI KHAN - The death toll rose to 50 Monday after two suicide bombers unleashed carnage at a Sufi shrine Dera Ghazi Khan where hundreds had gathered for a religious ceremony, an official said.
The bombers on Sunday struck the shrine of 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, in Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province.
It was the deadliest suicide attack in Pakistan since a mosque bombing killed 68 people on November 5 in the

COTABATO - Hundreds of residents fled a remote Philippine village after 11 men including relatives of a powerful politician died in a clash with Muslim rebels, officials said Monday.
A 500-strong armoured army unit deployed in the deserted village of Tenok on Monday, a day after the clash, to keep about 150 gun-wielding clan members and 130 guerrillas apart, said local military spokesman Colonel Prudencio Asto.
"They would not want to engage our people, who are fully

BANGKOK - The death toll from heavy flooding in southern Thailand has risen to 40, the government said Sunday, with thousands of people forced to live in temporary shelters.
More than a week of heavy rain -- in what is usually one of the hottest months -- has caused floods in 10 of Thailand's 77 provinces, submerging homes, triggering landslides and washing away roads and bridges.
As of Sunday, the death toll stood at 17 in hard-hit Nakhon Si Thammarat province, 10 in Surat

TOKYO - The National Police Agency said on Saturday that the catastrophic earthquake and ensuing tsunami have left 11,800 people dead and 15,540 others unaccounted for in Japan by 10:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).
The search for the missing by Japan and U.S. forces will end on Sunday and the country will shift its focus to a daunting reconstruction effort.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific coastal areas of northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11, triggering

TOKYO - The National Police Agency said the catastrophic earthquake and ensuing tsunami have left 11,578 people dead and 16,451 others unaccounted for in Japan by 10:00 a. m. local time (0100 GMT) Friday.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific coastal areas of northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11, triggering enormous tsunami.
Heavy casualties and extensive damage have been caused by the twin disasters.