Judge's son shot dead in Egypt
Cairo: Mohamed Mahmoud, 26-year-old son of Cairo appeal court judge Mahmoud El-Sayed, was killed in an armed attack by motorcycle-borne unidentified gunmen in front of their house in Daqahliya Governorate, north east of the capital.
Explosions kill four, wound 6 in Thailand
Thailand: Police say two explosions have killed four people and wounded six others at a municipal office in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south. Police Col. Kampanat Panichprasert said an unknown number of insurgents first opened fire in front of the Makrud Municipality building in Pattani's Kok Pho district.
Pak army deployed for flood relief
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday deployed the army for relief operations as the country grapples with the deadliest floods in its history that have killed nearly 260 people and affected over a million others. One of the main rivers of the country, Chenab, is still in high flood.
‘May have to talk directly with Israel’
Gaza City: Hamas's exiled deputy leader said on Thursday the group could be forced to negotiate directly with Israel, ahead of planned talks in Cairo to consolidate a truce.
5 new polio cases reported in Pakistan
Islamabad: Five new cases of polio were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of those affected this year to 143, a media report said on Thursday. One of the new cases is an infant in a suburb of Quetta, making it first polio case in the provincial capital in 2014 and the second in Balochistan, the Express Tribune reported.
2 Philippine troops killed in clash
Manila: Two Philippines soldiers and an unknown number of guerrillas opposed to the Government's peace deal with the country's largest Muslim rebel group were killed in a clash today, the military said.
3 Russian, American astronauts return
Moscow: Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut returned to Earth on Thursday after spending over six months together aboard the International Space Station, as tensions between two nations soared over the Ukraine crisis.
Book on MAHATMA Gandhi in Russian
Moscow: A book on Mahatma Gandhi's leadership qualities by Indian diplomat Pascal Alan Nazareth has been released in Russian, making it the sixth foreign language edition of the book.