‘Nuclear deal with Iran dangerous’
Jerusalem: Terming the efforts of world powers to strike a nuclear deal with Iran as “dangerous”, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said it was “astonishing” that talks were on even after IAEA found that Tehran was hiding military components of its atomic programme.
Car bomb in PAK kills 8-yr-old boy, hurts 9
Karachi: An eight-year-old boy was killed and nine others were injured on Sunday after a bomb planted in a car exploded in Pakistan’s troubled Baluchistan province. The bomb was planted in the car parked on a market street in Chaman town, close to the Afghan border, and was detonated by a remote control, police said.
385 die of MERS virus in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry says two more people have died after contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS, pushing the total number of deaths from the virus in the kingdom to 385.
Eight killed in boat capsize in China
Beijing: At least eight persons were killed and one went missing when an ‘overloaded’ boat sank in the Zijiang River in China’s central Hunan Province. The accident took place on Saturday when a private boat with 18 people on board sank on the Jiugongqiao section of Zijiang river.
2 Nepalese schoolgirls injured in acid attack
Kathmandu: Two teenage Nepalese schoolgirls suffered serious burn injuries after four masked men hurled acid at them at a tuition centre here.
Kuwait jails Opp leader for insulting ruler
Kuwait City: Kuwait’s appeals court sentenced prominent Opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak to two years in jail on charges of insulting the Gulf State’s ruler, his group said.
Japan calls for return of islets from S Korea
Tokyo:Japan urged South Korea again on Sunday to return disputed islets, one of the issues which have soured ties between the two US allies. Seoul controls the islands in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) which it calls Dokdo.
Girl suicide bomber kills five in Nigeria
Nigeria: A young girl suicide bomber blew herself up and killed five others on Sunday in an attack on a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum, witnesses said. Nineteen others who sustained various degrees of injury were taken to hospital after the blast in Potiskum, Yobe State’s commercial capital, a local vigilante leader told AFP.