WASHINGTON : An FBI agent shot and killed a man Wednesday morning in Orlando, Florida, who was being interviewed about his ties to the Boston bombing suspects, according to US media reports.The man, identified as Ibragim Todashev, 26, was from Chechnya, the reports said.CBS News senior ...

Five bombings and clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has cost more than 370 lives so far this month.In Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen and a suicide bombing killed ...

BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Saturday including a police officer, his wife and two children, while gunmen kidnapped up to 10 people, among them police, officials said.The attacks are the latest in a wave of violence that has killed more than 270 people since the beginning of May, ...

KIRKUK - A suicide bomber attacked Shia mourners in north Iraq Thursday, killing 12 people, and 13 died in other violence, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed sectarianism for unrest plaguing the country.The suicide bomber tried to enter Al-Zahraa husseiniyah, a Shia place of ...

LAHORE - One more measles patient died at a Lahore hospital on Thursday, taking the death toll to 51 in the provincial capital. Muhammad Ehsan, eight months, breathed his last at Mayo Hospital. As many as 67 more patients were admitted to various hospitals in Lahore on Thursday. So far 76 children ...

A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 14 people including six NATO personnel and two children in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year.The powerful explosion, which struck at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) in the Shah Shaheed southeastern ...

SHEIKHUPURAThe sole brother of six sisters was brutally tortured to death here on Monday by landlord over a land issue.According to sources, goons of a local influential landlord had been pressurizing the poor man Zafer Iqbal since long time, demanding a route through a plot which was in his ...

KANDAHARA bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said.It was the latest violence since the Taliban launched their annual “spring offensive” on April 27, opening a ...

SHEIKHUPURA - The sole brother of six sisters was brutally tortured to death here on Monday by landlord over a land issue.According to sources, goons of a local influential landlord had been pressurizing the poor man Zafer Iqbal since long time, demanding a route through a plot which was in his ...

MOSCOW  - A 7-year-old Russian boy told investigators he had shot and killed his 4-year-old brother by accident with their grandfather's rifle on Sunday, law enforcement authorities said.The boy said he and his brother had found the gun under a bed in their grandparents' house in the Siberian ...

      KARACHI/QUETTA   The Election 2013 ended under the shadow of bomb blasts, rocket firings and shootings across the country, killing more than 50 people on the polls day. Four bomb blasts occurred in various areas ofKarachiwhile three cracker attacks and exchange of fire ...

A suicide bomber slammed his motorbike into a rangers’ picket here on Saturday, killing two persons and injuring three others.The attack took place on Mangho Pir Road.The injured personnel were shifted to hospital.

DHAKA : Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900.The fire, in an industrial district of Dhaka, ...

  RIYADH: A new SARS-like virus has killed two more people inSaudi Arabia, taking the number of deaths from the coronavirus that the kingdom has announced to seven in one week, the health ministry said. “The health ministry has announced that three infections by the new coronavirus have ...

At least six people were killed and many other wounded when a bomb blast ripped through a PPP rally here on Tuesday.The blast took place at Babagam area of Maidan in Lower Dir.According to police officials, the explosion occurred in a corner meeting of an PPP candidate Zameen Khan from PK-96 ...

RIYADH:  Five Saudis have died of a new SARS-like virus during the past few days and two more are being treated in an intensive care unit, the health ministry said. In a statement cited by the Saudi SPA agency late on Wednesday, the ministry said that all the deaths as well as the infections ...

PULI ALAM - A Taliban bomb killed eight Afghan police Thursday in Logar province outside the capital Kabul, officials said, four days after the insurgents started their annual ‘spring offensive’.The members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force were on a joint patrol with Nato-led ...

In Larkana at least 4 persons were burnt to death and 14 others injured as fire engulfed passenger van after gas cylinder was burst.According to Media Reports, the injured have been shifted to district Headquarter hospital Larkana.

DAMASCUS   (AFP/Reuters) - A bombing in the heart of Damascus killed at least 13 people Tuesday, as Russia banned its civilian planes from Syrian airspace after the crew of one reported coming under threat over the war-hit country.US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, expressed concerns ...

BAGHDADAt least 23 people were killed in Iraq on Monday in a series of car bombs in Shia areas and militant attacks, medics and police sources said, taking the week’s death toll to nearly 200 as sectarian violence intensifies.Clashes have increased as the civil war in Syria puts strain on ...

Peshawar - Ten people, including son and nephew of ex-deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, were killed and 70 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday morning. Security officials said the target was a police mobile van. Qazi Muhammad Ameen ...

BEIRUT A ground-to-ground missile was fired on a town in northern Syria at dawn on Sunday and killed at least four civilians, two of them children, a watchdog reported.Anti-regime activists of the Aleppo Media Centre said the missile, which slammed into a residential area of Tal Rifaat, was a Scud, ...

SAVAR A fire broke out in the rubble of a Bangladesh factory complex Sunday night, killing what the country’s fire chief described as the last remaining survivor from the building’s collapse five days earlier.“The fire broke out as we were cutting a beam to bring out what we ...

A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 45 others when he rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday, police said.Two staff at the Afghan consulate were among those killed in the attack, which police said targeted a top civil servant who heads the city's ...

beijingTwenty-one people, including police officers and social workers, were killed in violent clashes in China's ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, officials said on Wednesday.Gun fights broke out in Barchuk county in the west of the province after police went to search the home of ...

  KIRKUK   A wave of clashes and attacks involving Iraqi security forces, protesters and their supporters on Tuesday left 53 people dead and prompted two Sunni ministers to quit, sending tensions soaring. The unrest, which also included the kidnapping of a soldier by armed protesters, was ...

At least five persons were killed and seven others injured when a US drone struck a compound in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) here in Wana on Wednesday.According to details, an unmanned US spy plane fired two missiles at a residential compound located in village Sararogha of Babar Kot in SWA.As a ...

At least four people including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Balochistan chapter’s President Sanaullah Zehri’s son, brother and nephew were killed in a blast near the leader’s convoy in Khuzdar district of the province, officials said on Tuesday.According to Lavi’s ...

Dozens of attacks across Iraq on Monday, including a brazen car bombing en route to Baghdad airport, killed at least 24 people just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew.The violence, which struck during morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead of the polls, also ...

Four children died after they suffered from measles in Lahore’s Mayo Hospital here on Saturday.According to hospital sources, four children who belonged to Baghbanpura, Ravi Road and Malipura localities of Lahore succumbed to measles in Mayo Hospital. The victims included Amanullah, Imran, ...