A six-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said. According to international media reports, no students were injured in the shooting on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher – a woman in her 30s مزید پڑھیں

Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of Mexican drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman in the northern state of Sinaloa, Defence Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday. Mexican security forces on Thursday captured Guzman, a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. مزید پڑھیں

With China days away from dropping border controls that have effectively shut it off from the rest of the world for three years, countries are lining up to impose curbs on travellers from China to contain its raging COVID-19 outbreak. From Sunday, Jan. 8, China will drop a requirement for inbound travellers to quarantine, the مزید پڑھیں

The interim Afghan Taliban government has signed a 25-year contract with a Chinese company for the extraction of oil from Afghanistan’s Amu River basin and to develop an oil reserve in the country’s north. According to international media reports, the first major foreign investment deal since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021 was مزید پڑھیں

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered a 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine to run during Orthodox Christmas, a move that war-battered Kyiv swiftly branded as “hypocrisy”. Putin’s directive to his troops was announced days after Moscow suffered its deadliest reported loss of the invasion, and following 11 months of brutal combat. Both nations celebrate Orthodox مزید پڑھیں

Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday that a network of Daesh militants involved in the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul has been killed in an operation. On December 2, the embassy in Kabul came under attack with Chargé d’Affaires (CdA) to Afghanistan Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani targeted. Nizamani was unscathed but his guard مزید پڑھیں

At least 35 people have been confirmed dead and several others wounded in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a town in central Somalia. According to international media reports, a senior police official told reporters on Wednesday that the death toll rose sharply from the 15 reported earlier in the day. Security official Abdullahi Adan said that مزید پڑھیں

The United Arab Emirates and China have called for a UN Security Council meeting after Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in a widely denounced move. According to international media reports, the Council is expected to convene on Thursday. Ben-Gvir’s actions drew fierce condemnation across the world, with Egypt, مزید پڑھیں

The US State Department spokesperson Ned Price has said that Pakistan has a right to defend itself from terrorism. The spokesperson while briefing the newsmen in Washington on Tuesday, said that we’re aware of the recent statement by the Pakistani National Security Committee. The Pakistani people have suffered tremendously from terrorist attacks, he said. Price مزید پڑھیں

The United States is not discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea, US President Joe Biden has said, appearing to contradict remarks by his South Korean counterpart, President Yoon Suk-yeol, that Washington and Seoul were in talks on exercises involving US nuclear assets. According to international media reports, the South Korean president said in a مزید پڑھیں