Indonesia volcano at unleashes fresh burst
Tanah Karo: A volcano in western Indonesia that has been spewing clouds of searing gas high into the air let out a new powerful burst on Wednesday. Authorities are closely monitoring Mount Sinabung on Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s main islands, after placing in at the highest alert level last week.
ISIS leaders’ wives pass info to avoid intercepts
Washington: Wives of top Islamic State leaders, including its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, play an important role in passing information to one another and then to their spouses to avoid electronic intercepts, according to a media report.
Africa signs ‘Cape to Cairo’ free trade deal
Sharm El Sheikh: African leaders signed a 26-nation free trade pact to create a common market that would span half the continent from Cairo to Cape Town. The Tripartite Free Trade Area deal, which must still be fine-tuned and ratified, caps five years of talks to set up a framework for preferential tariffs to ease the movement of goods in an area home to 625 million people.
Pak court stalls Mumbai attack trial till June 17
Islamabad: A Pakistani court, holding the trial of seven Mumbai attack case accused, including mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman lakhvi, on Wednesday adjourned the hearing till June 17 as lawyers went on strike.
Pak court rejects plea of death-row ‘teen’
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to set up a commission to determine the age of a man sentenced to death for killing a boy when he was reportedly a minor, clearing the way for his execution which was postponed four times over his age.