Quake shakes Bali in Indonesia
Denpasa: Indonesian authorities say a subsea earthquake shook Bali, Lombok and East Java on Tuesday, causing damage to homes and temples.
23 million out-of-school kids in Pak
Islamabad: Despite generous funding from foreign donors to transform the educational sector in Pakistan and the claims by various governments regarding improvements, there are almost 23 million out-of-school children in the country, the second highest number in the world, a report said.
1 million affected in B’desh floods
Dhaka: More than 1 million people have been affected across Bangladesh due to floods caused by torrential rain in the country that has also led to major rivers flowing above the danger levels, the media reported on Tuesday.
air raids kill 11 in northwest Syria
Syria: Regime air strikes on Tuesday killed 11 civilians in opposition-held northwest Syria, the target of months of bombardment by the Government and its ally Russia, a war monitor said.
9 PAK workers killed in coalmine collapse
Karachi: Nine miners were killed and two others rescued nearly two days after an underground fire trapped them in a coalmine in Pakistan’s resource-rich Balochistan province, officials said on Tuesday.
Brazilian priest shoved off stage by woman
New York: A Brazilian Catholic priest, known across the country for his popular sermons, was seen violently knocked off stage by a woman at a religious event in Sao Paulo in a video that has gone viral over social media.
EU, SL hold informal counter-terrorism talk
Colombo: The European Union (EU) and Sri Lanka held an informal counter-terrorism dialogue where the former presented a support package for the latter focusing on law enforcement, rehabilitation and disengagement, counter-narratives and online radicalisation, the media reported.