WARSAW: More than 2,000 people were evacuated Monday while Polish navy experts removed three World War II bombs from the Baltic Sea bed at the vacation resort of Kolobrzeg, officials said. The…
WARSAW: Polish police say they are evacuating more than 2,000 people after the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb weighing some 250 kilograms (550 pounds). The bomb was discovered in…
BEIRUT: All the residents of two Syrian pro-government villages in the country’s northwest — over 7,000 people — who were besieged by the rebels for three years were evacuated on Thursday to…
LAHORE: Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik is just 11 runs short of 2,000 runs in T20 Internationals. Talking to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) media, the middle-order batsman said he did not know about this…
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignations of two more Chilean bishops, the latest fallout from a sex abuse scandal whose scope and gravity were initially underestimated by the pontiff.…
JERUSALEM: Israel said Thursday it will give final approval to the construction of 2,500 new homes in the occupied West Bank, the first tranche of settlements since the controversial US embassy move…
KINSHASA: An official in Congo says two United Nations peacekeepers have been released after being held by rebels in the country’s southeast. Tanganyika province vice-governor Ali Omar Simukinje told The Associated Press…
MANILA: The Philippines raised the alert at its restive Mayon volcano by one notch early on Sunday, citing signs of rising magma that could lead to hazardous eruptions. Residents were evacuated from…
BEIJING: Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two crew members on an Iranian oil tanker that has been burning since it collided with a freighter last week in the East China Sea, according…
ISLAMABAD: Education and Professional Training Federal Minister, Engineer Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman chaired the 22nd meeting of the National Education Foundation (NEF) Board of Governors here on Wednesday and discussed the vocational schools project and the sustainability…
