Violence-hit school reopened in Peshawar, students return to classrooms
Jan 12, 2015, at 06:08 pm
Peshawar, Jan 12 (IBNS): Attired in green school blazers, Pakistani children on Monday returned to the violence-hit school where Taliban gunmen had killed 150 of their classmates and teachers during a terrorist attack in Peshawar, media reports said.
UNESCO chief joins world leaders for historic anti-terror unity march in Paris
Jan 12, 2015, at 06:32 am
Paris, Jan 11 (IBNS) The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, participated in Sunday's historic march for freedom and solidarity in Paris, held in the wake of the deadly terrorist assault on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, and after three days of subsequent attacks that killed 17 people in the country.
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World leaders, commoners march in Paris against terror attack
Jan 12, 2015, at 06:28 am
Paris, Jan 11 (IBNS): Days after France witnessed three days of deadliest militant attacks beginning with massacre of journalists and cartoonists in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo office killing 17 people so far in sieges, several world leaders, including President Francois Hollande, in a show of solidarity against terrorism marched with more than a million others in Paris on Sunday to send a strong message to the radicals.
Pakistan: 3 suspected militants arrested
Jan 12, 2015, at 05:25 am
Quetta, Jan 11(IBNS) Security forces have arrested three suspected militants, including a suicide bomber, from Pakistan's Quetta city on Sunday., media reports sai
Charlie Hebdo attacks: Paris witnesses massive march for unity
Jan 12, 2015, at 03:22 am
Paris, Jan 11 (IBNS):More than a million people, including top world leaders, participated in a unity march in Paris in a show of solidarity after the country was ravaged by three days of terrorist attacks which killed 17 people.
Jan 12, 2015, at 03:04 am
Karachi, Jan 11 (IBNS) At least 67 people were killed a bus and an oil tanker in Pakistan's Karachi city on Sunday, media reports said.
Pakistan: 57 killed in bus-oil tanker crash
Jan 11, 2015, at 08:28 pm
Karachi, Jan 11 (IBNS): At least 57 people were killed in an accident between a bus and an oil tanker in southern Pakistan on Sunday morning, media reports said.
UN to host new round of talks among Libyan parties with view to ending crisis
Jan 11, 2015, at 06:16 pm
New York, Jan 11 (IBNS) Libyan parties have agreed to hold in Geneva next week a new round of United Nations-facilitated political talks aimed at helping all sides reach “common ground†to end the current political and security crisis, the UN Mission in the strife-torn country announced today.
16 killed in Nigerian market blast
Jan 11, 2015, at 04:59 am
Maiduguri, Jan 10 (IBNS): At least 16 people were killed in a bomb attack in Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, media reports said.
Charlie Hebdo: French police hunt for woman accomplice of slain terrorist
Jan 10, 2015, at 11:22 pm
Paris, Jan 10 (IBNS): Police in France is on a hunt for Hayat Boumeddiene, the 26-year-old partner to slain militant Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunmen shot dead by police after last Wednesday's massacre in a satirical magazine and subsequent mayhem across the city.
Ban calls on Global Compact to help end poverty, transform lives, protect planet
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:52 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) Addressing the United Nations Global Compact board meeting this afternoon, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said everyone held a stake in ending poverty, transforming people’s lives and protecting the planet.
Cuba: UN rights office hopes release of political prisoners paves way for freedoms to flourish
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:50 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) The United Nations human rights office on Fridaywelcomed Cuba’s recent release of political prisoners, hoping this new development will help open the way for an environment where freedom of expression and association flourishes.
UN chief offers condolences to French Government in wake of 'Charlie Hebdo' attack
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:39 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Fridayvisited the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations to offer, on behalf of the Organization, his condolences to the families of the victims of the terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical magazine,Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed.
UN ramps up relief efforts as huge Mid-East snowstorm threatens Syrian refugees
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:37 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) The United Nations refugee agency has been working around the clock this week to help the millions of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people scattered across the Middle East endure a severe winter storm that has swept through much of the region.
New Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria drive more than 7,000 into Chad-UN
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:33 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) The number of Nigerian refugees seeking safety in Chad has almost quadrupled over the past 10 days after attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in northeastern Nigeria uprooted thousands, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
Ban commends success of Sri Lanka presidential election, peaceful transfer of power
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:09 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Fridaycongratulated the people of Sri Lanka on the successful conclusion of the country’s presidential election, and welcomed the constitutional transfer of power.
Mali: UN Mission condemns attack that wounded seven peacekeepers
Jan 10, 2015, at 05:58 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) The United Nations Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has condemned the attack on its peacekeepers near the Kidal airstrip this morning, when one of its vehicles struck an explosive device.
Senior UN envoy meets with Libyan stakeholders, warns 'time running out' to resolve crisis
Jan 10, 2015, at 05:46 pm
New York, Jan 9 (IBNS) The top United Nations official in Libya, in discussions with the strife-torn North African nation’s leaders and stakeholders, has warned that time may be running out to put an end to the political and security crisis, stressing that it is extremely important to "freeze fire" so that political dialogue can begin.
UN rights chief urges more global attention to 'wanton' violence in Yemen
Jan 10, 2015, at 05:41 pm
New York, Jan 10 (IBNS) The top United Nations human rights official appealed on Fridayfor more international attention to be focused on Yemen and the plight of Yemenis as deepening insecurity and “utterly intolerable†violence in the country continue to wreak a terrible toll on civilians.
Former Pak Air Force officer who made assassination attempt on Musharraf executed
Jan 10, 2015, at 05:34 pm
Islamabad, Jan 10 (IBNS): A former Pakistan Air Force chief technician Khalid Mehmood, convicted for an assassination attempt on former president Pervez Musharraf, was executed, a media report said on Saturday.
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Paris attack suspects killed as crisis ends with four hostages' deaths
Jan 10, 2015, at 07:50 am
Paris, Jan 9 (IBNS): The double hostage crisis in France came to an end on Friday as police gunned down the three hostage takers, including the two brothers suspected of a massacre in the magazine office of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, in separate incidents, but four hostages also lost their lives in the standoff while a fifth hostage could be saved from their clutches. officials said.
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Imran Khan condemns Rawalpindi blast
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:58 am
Rawalpindi, Jan 9 (IBNS): Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan on Friday condemned the blast in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city which killed seven people and left 17 others injured.
Jan 10, 2015, at 06:31 am
Rawalpindi, Jan 9 (IBNS): At least seven people were killed in a blast in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city on Friday, media reports said.
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Pakistan: 5 killed Rawalpindi blast
Jan 10, 2015, at 04:28 am
Rawalpindi, Jan 9 (IBNS)A blast in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city killed at least five people and injured 17 others on Friday, media reports said.
UN probe says South Sudan attacks 'nadir' of conflict marked by abuses, rights violations
Jan 10, 2015, at 04:16 am
New York, Jan 9 (IBNS) The Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) issued a report on Friday saying there are reasonable grounds to believe that at least 353 civilians were murdered and another 250 wounded in attacks in the capitals of Unity state and Jonglei state between 15 April and 17 April last year.
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France: Double hostage crisis ends, gunmen killed
Jan 10, 2015, at 04:10 am
Paris, Jan 9 (IBNS): The double hostage crisis in France came to an end on Friday as the three hostage takers, including the two brothers suspected to be involved in the Charlie Hebdo shootings, have been killed by security forces, media reports said.
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Police launch assault where Charlie Hebdo attack suspects are holed up
Jan 10, 2015, at 03:37 am
Paris, Jan 9 (IBNS): Gunshots and explosions were heard at the printworks warehouse north of France capital Paris where two suspects of the Charlie Hebdo shootings are holding a hostage, media reports said on Friday.
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France witnesses double hostage crisis
Jan 10, 2015, at 03:11 am
Paris, Jan 9 (IBNS): France is facing another crisis situation with double hostage crisis shaking the peace of the country on Friday with the police cornering the two Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects in Dammartin-en-Goele town while another gunman taking hostages at a Kosher supermarket in Paris.
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Fresh shooting in Paris market, two killed: Reports
Jan 10, 2015, at 12:58 am
Paris, Jan 9 (IBNS): Fresh firing took place at Kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday killing at least two people, media reports said.
Police close on terrorist borthers in France
Jan 09, 2015, at 10:17 pm
Paris, Jan 9 (IBNS) Police on Friday were close on the two suspects of the Charlie Hebdo massacre as a joint force cordoned off Dammartin-en-Goele, a small town in the northeast of Paris and a military helicopter landed near a wathehouse where theywere thought to be holed up.