STRASBOURG, France : Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school. The police also released photographs of the ...

SITTWE, Myanmar : Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered to evacuate Wednesday as a cyclone bore down on coastal areas home to flood-prone refugee camps for victims of sectarian unrest. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at ...

DHAKA: Schools and businesses were closed on Wednesday as a nationwide strike called byBangladesh’s opposition over the killings of Islamists in a police crackdown brought large parts of the country to a halt. Security was tight in the capitalDhakawith thousands of policemen on ...

BAKU : The Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday approved a prisoner amnesty proposed by the country’s glamorous and powerful first lady that will likely see thousands of convicts released. The move — put forward by Mehriban Aliyeva, the influential wife of strongman President Ilham Aliyev ...

MOSCOW: Thousands of protestors on Monday filled a square in centralMoscowto denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin one year into his new Kremlin term, as the opposition seeks to recover the momentum of their challenge to his rule. Organisers said tens of thousands attended the rally, which ...

washington - The admission made by an official human rights body of Indian-occupied Kashmir's "government" in August last year about the existence of over two thousand unmarked graves has been featured in a U.S. report on human rights.The report, titled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices ...

LAHORE – Minhaj Welfare Foundation organised a mass marriage ceremony on Sunday where a total of 24 couples including four Christians got married. The 24 brides were given Rs 150,000 each and dowry. About 1,800 people participated in the ceremony.

CAIRO (AFP) - Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Cairo on Friday as the opposition piled pressure on President Mohamed Mursi after a panel rushed through a draft constitution seen as undermining basic freedoms.“Down with the constitutional assembly,” vast crowds armed with ...

KARACHI - The Mass Transit System in the metropolis would be completed in three phases, said Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan on Friday.Talking to the participants of the management courses at the Governor House here, he said that the Mass Transit System includes mono rail, rapid bus transit ...

GENEVA, Nov 14, 2012  - Armed groups in DR Congo's war-torn east province slaughtered more than 200 people including scores of children between April and September, hacking some to death and burning others alive, the UN said Wednesday."At least 264 civilians, including 83 children, were ...

Mohammad AlrumaihiI performed the Haj this season. Naturally, millions of Muslims were there and one got to meet different kinds of people, especially from other Arab countries — Yemenis, Egyptians, among others. It happened that the week of the Haj was preceded by a great Sunday in Kuwait, ...

KARACHI - Jammat-e-Islami Karachi chief Muhammad Hussain Mehanti said the mass murder of Muslims in Burma has exposed the cruel behavior of the international community.He expressed grave concern over the fresh spree of the bloodbath and violence against the Muslims in Burma.  In a statement ...

LAHORE – Khushi Foundation organised a collective marriages ceremony of 100 couples at Aiwan-e-Iqbal organised by Khushi Foundation on Thursday.Punjab Minister for Education Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman was the chief guest on the occasion. He said those persons, who dedicate their lives and ...

AROUND 135 bungee jumpers leapt from a bridge at the same time in front of a roaring crowd.Onlookers screamed and cheered at the mass bungee jump from a railway bridge in Russia.A video uploaded to YouTube shows the mass bungee and then jumpers swinging together above the river belowThe first ...

DUBAI  - Thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets of Shiite villages around the capital on Friday to demand reforms, with some calling for the ouster of the Sunni-ruled regime, witnesses said.Muslim clerics, women, and elderly people, responding to calls from the opposition, set off from 10 ...

JAKARTA  - Thousands of Indonesians protested across the country Wednesday against a proposed fuel hike, with violence which broke out in one city injuring a policeman, police said.Around 4,000 workers protested “peacefully” in front of the state palace in the capital, Jakarta ...

HASILPUR - The long dry spell has forced the inhabitants of Cholistan to migrate to greener pastures for survival as the dried ponds of water have become a big threat to their life as well as their cattle heads. They have started shifting with their livestock towards areas which could cater to ...

MULTAN - The Punjab government has sought proposals from the district government for launching an Istanbul-like mass transit system in Multan. Sources disclosed that a high level committee is also formed on the pattern of Lahore’s Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency and DCO ...

MANAMA  - Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated outside the capital Manama on Friday to demand urgent political reforms, a year after the Gulf Arab state crushed an uprising, witnesses said.The protestors began marching along a highway near Manama in response to a call from leading ...

BENGHAZI, Libya- A Libyan committee on missing persons said on Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of 163 people who were killed in the 2011 conflict that toppled the regime of Moamer Gaddafi.“The discovery of 163 bodies out of 400 missing from the regions of eastern Libya is an ...

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) has expressed concern over allegations of "enforced disappearance and the existence of mass graves" in Indian Held Kashmir."The Working Group remains concerned about allegations of a widespread practice of enforced ...

BEIRUT  - Syria on Monday rebuffed as a “conspiracy” an Arab League call for President Bashar al-Assad to step down in favour of a unity government to calm a 10-month-old revolt in which thousands of Syrians have been killed.Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour criticised the ...

COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka has lifted a moratorium on killing stray dogs as the government attempts to cut down on the 2,000 people that are hospitalised every day after being bitten, a media report said Saturday.Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told the Swarnavahini television network that the ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Tens of thousands of weeping North Koreans bade farewell Wednesday to longtime leader Kim Jong-Il as his young son and successor walked beside his father's coffin through a snowbound Pyongyang.Kim Jong-Un was at the forefront of the three-hour procession, in what analysts said was an ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Sunday came to terms with its second mass opposition rally within a month which was even bigger and more sharply critical of strongman Vladimir Putin than the first such protest two weeks ago.Organisers said 120,000 people attended the extraordinary rally in central Moscow ...

MOSCOW  - Russia's opposition is to stage new nationwide demonstrations Saturday expected to attract tens of thousands of people to protest alleged rigging in this month's parliamentary elections.Incensed by claims of wholesale violations in the December 4 parliamentary polls that handed a ...

LAHORE Pakistan Defense Council has appealed to the masses to participate in the conference at Minar-e-Pakistan on December 18 irrespective of their political affiliations for the cause of national defense and security. Addressing a press conference at Jamaat-e-Islami Lahore office on Monday, the ...

ISLAMABAD - Disappointed by the government indifference to their demands the leadership of Suba Hazara Tehreek (SHT) after detailed consultation at the forum of the Supreme Council of the Tehreek decided to go for mass mobilisation campaign for securing status of province for Hazara ...

AHMEDABAD (AFP) - Nearly 140 greater flamingos were killed in a wildlife sanctuary in western India when they were startled and flew into a string of high tension power lines, a forest official said Friday. Tens of thousands of flamingos turn the flat, warm marshes of the Khadir region of Gujarat ...

MONROVIA (AFP) - Liberia's main opposition called Sunday for a mass rally for the funerals of victims of pre-poll violence amid demands that a presidential election won by incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf be re-run. The Congress for Democratic Change said it would stage the rally on Monday or ...