Brother of Taliban leader killed in pak
Karachi: A brother of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah was among five people killed when a powerful bomb ripped through a mosque inside a seminary during Friday prayers in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province, Taliban sources said.
Ebola spreads to 3rd province in Congo
Kinshasa (Congo): Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has spread to a new province, with two cases, including one death, confirmed in South Kivu, according to the Government Health Ministry. Two new patients tested positive in the Mwenga area of South
Kivu, adding to North Kivu and Ituri provinces where there are confirmed cases of the disease, according to the Health Ministry.
17 Chinese, Ukrainian seamen kidnapped
Yaounde: Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said on Friday.
July 2019 hottest month on record
Washington: July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded globally, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Tennessee executed in electric chair
Nashville: Tennessee executed its third inmate in the electric chair since November, killing a man on Thursday who maintained that he didn’t stab a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986.