‘Imran expected to make full recovery soon’
lahore: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan is expected to make a full recovery despite fracturing three vertebrae and a rib in a dramatic fall at a political rally, doctors treating him said on Wednesday.
Indian-origin Mayor racially abused in SA
Johannesburg: An Indian-origin South African Mayor has accused a Government official of racially abusing him and asking him to “go back to India”, an incident dubbed as unwarranted backlash over the controversial Gupta wedding. Newcastle Mayor Afzul Rehman has accused a Transport Department official of unlawfully, intentionally and seriously abusing him, local media reported.
Search for survivors of Italy shipping mishap on
Genoa (Italy): Rescue workers were searching for survivors at the port of Genoa on Wednesday, after a container ship smashed into a control tower in a night-time accident that left three dead and revived painful memories in Italy of a deadly cruise ship disaster last year. Around 14 people were in the tower when it was knocked over, plunging some into the cold water and trapping others in a lift which toppled into the sea, media reports said.
33 arrested for $50mn Belgium diamond heist
Brussels: Police in Belgium, France and Switzerland have arrested 33 people and recovered “a large quantity” of diamonds and cash in a joint probe into a spectacular $50-million diamond heist at Brussels airport.
Attacks kill 11 people in Iraq
Kirkuk: Suicide bombers killed four people in north Iraq on Wednesday, while seven more people, among them a gunmen, died in other violence, officials said. One suicide bomber driving an explosives-rigged car targeted security forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, known as peshmerga, near the northern city of Kirkuk, killing a peshmerga and wounding 12, police and a medical official said.