The peace march was also aimed at drawing the attention of all women in the country to use their influential abilities at home to convince their sons and husbands to eschew acts that could lead to violence. Speaking to the women after the march, Mrs Victoria Asuliwono said women have the ability to help ensure […]

“The anti-terrorist military operations destroyed five hideouts of the militants and also defused ten explosive devices that were planted to target security men,” Military Spokesman Mohamed Samir said in the statement. Since the beginning of November, similar raids in the northern part of the peninsula left 26 militants dead while the security forces ruined nearly […]

A man injured in a bomb blast at a shrine, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Hub town, southwest Pakistan, on Nov. 12, 2016. The death toll of a suicide bomb attack on a shrine in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Saturday night has risen to 52, said an official on Sunday. [Xinhua]  The […]

Chinese splurged more than 120 billion yuan (17.6 billion U.S. dollars) online on leading online market place Alibaba in the annual buying spree, with about 82 percent of all transaction made on mobile terminals, rising from about 70 percent last year. The country’s second largest e-commerce giant, JD.com, saw about 85 percent of all its […]

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in charge of probe into the Choi case was quoted as saying that it had delivered to the presidential office its request to investigate President Park on Tuesday or Wednesday. Face-to-face investigation would be preferable in principle, the prosecution said, but it depends on consultations with Park’s office. If […]

More than 12,400 polling stations across Bulgaria and 325 abroad are available for the 6.834 million eligible voters. Radev, a recently retired commander of the Bulgarian Air Force, led in the first round last Sunday with 25.44 percent of the valid votes. He faces Tsetska Tsacheva, the ruling center-right GERB party candidate and current speaker […]

The secretary-general, in a statement issued here Saturday night by his spokesman, extended “his heartfelt condolences” to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Pakistan, and wished a speedy recovery to the injured. “The secretary-general hopes the Pakistani authorities will be able to swiftly bring the perpetrators of this depraved […]