Sweden, Finland must hand over 130 ‘terrorists’, says Erdogan

Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 “terrorists” to Turkiye before the Turkish parliament will approve their bids to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. The two Nordic states applied last year to join Nato following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but their bids must be مزید پڑھیں

Ukraine interior minister among 16 dead in helicopter crash

Sixteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister and other senior officials were killed when a helicopter crashed outside Kyiv in the town of Brovary, the national police chief said. According to international media reports, the governor of the Kyiv region said earlier on Wednesday that a helicopter crashed near a nursery and a residential building. Two مزید پڑھیں

Chinese city-dwellers head to hometowns as holidays raise Covid stakes

Passengers laden with luggage flocked to rail stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday, heading to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holidays that health experts fear could intensify a raging Covid-19 outbreak in areas less equipped to handle it. After three years of strict anti-virus controls, China abruptly abandoned its “zero Covid” مزید پڑھیں

UN chief condemns deadly attack at DR Congo church

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned a deadly attack at a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a statement, spokesman of UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said Guterres has expressed his deepest condolences to the bereaved families and the people and government of the DRC. Antonio Guterres reiterated that the مزید پڑھیں

Search resumes for four people missing in Nepal after deadly air crash

Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. According to the latest report, the black box of the ill-fated plane has been found. Rescuers had recovered 68 bodies out of the 72 people onboard the ATR 72 aircraft operated مزید پڑھیں

Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada shot dead in Kabul

Gunmen shot dead former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home. According to international media reports, Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the US-backed government that was overthrown by the Taliban in August 2021. “Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, مزید پڑھیں