In China, a blast at an explosives plant has left 13 people dead and 20 missing, State media said efforts are on to reach out to the missing amidst clean-up efforts.Safety standards are frequently flouted in China, and workplace accidents remain common despite repeated pledges by the gove...
Eighteen armed insurgents were killed and 22 others arrested in joint clearance operations by Afghan and the international forces in various provinces of Afghanistan during the past 24 hours. A press release issued by the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul today said the operations were conducted in...
Reports from Iraq say that more than 20 peoplehave been killed in fresh bomb attacks. Shia mosques were targeted overnight in the central city of Hilla. In the north of the country, two car bombs hit the town of Tuz Khurmato and a cattle market was bombed in Kirkuk. A suicide bomber attacked an arm...