Canada: Ottawa woman accuses singer Jacob Hoggard of rape

Feb 26, 2018, at 11:59 pm

Ottawa, Feb 26 (IBNS): Canadian singer Jacob Hoggard has been accused by a woman, who lives in the Canadian capital, of rape, media reports said.

Syria: US-led airstrikes kill 25 civilians

Feb 26, 2018, at 11:27 pm

Damascus, Feb 26 (IBNS): At least 25 civilians were killed as airstrikes by the US-led anti-terror coalition hit  Deir al-Zour  area in Syria, a monitor group reported on Monday.

Lorry-Bus accident in Bangladesh kills 8, injured 30

Feb 26, 2018, at 10:08 pm

Dhaka, Feb 26 (IBNS): A bus crashed into a lorry on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Bangladesh's Sonargaon area which left at least eight people killed on Monday, media reports said.

Canada: Ontario promotes Sikh heritage with new learning resources

Feb 26, 2018, at 07:38 pm

Ottawa, Feb 26 (IBNS): Minister of Education Indira Naidoo-Harris, MPP for Brampton-Springdale and Minister of the Status of Women Harinder Malhi have announced Ontario's new development resources on Sikh history and heritage to familiarise students' understanding of Canada's diverse history and people, media reports said.

Afghanistan : Fourteen militants killed in Helmand and Farah airstrikes

Feb 26, 2018, at 06:42 pm

Kabul, Feb 26 (IBNS) :  At least 14 militants were killed in a series of airstrikes in southern Helmand and western Farah provinces of Afghanistan.

Nigeria: Government widens search for missing school girls

Feb 26, 2018, at 05:35 pm

Abuja, Feb 26 (IBNS): The Nigerian government has widened its search for the missing 110 girls who have been kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last week.

Spain's King Felipe faces protests in Catalonia

Feb 26, 2018, at 05:05 pm

Barcelona, Feb 26 (IBNS): Spain's King Felipe faced protests in his maiden visit to Catalonia since October 2017's failed separation saga.

Ivanka Trump concludes her South Korea visit, calls visit 'wonderful'

Feb 26, 2018, at 03:23 pm

Seoul, Feb 26 (IBNS):  US President Donald Trump's daughter and senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump has concluded her South Korean visit.

Impact of Afghanistan’s fourth consecutive year of war on civilians 'far too high' – UN report

Feb 26, 2018, at 02:28 pm

New York, Feb 26 (JEN): More than 10,000 civilians have lost their lives or suffered injuries during 2017, according to the latest report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documenting the impact of the armed conflict on civilians in Afghanistan.

England: Leicester explosion, fire leaves six people injured

Feb 26, 2018, at 02:27 pm

Leicester, Feb 26 (IBNS): A suspected explosion and subsequent fire left at least six people hurt in England's Leicester on Sunday, media reports said.

Steve Jobs CV up for auction, set to fetch $50,000

Feb 26, 2018, at 12:43 am

Washington, Feb 25 (IBNS): Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' job application, which was written by him 45 years ago, will go up for auction next month.

Former Senator from Kabul killed by gunmen in Afghanistan

Feb 26, 2018, at 12:30 am

Kabul, Feb 25 (IBNS):  Rafiullah Gull Afghan, a former senator from Kabul, was killed as gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in the city on Saturday, media reports said.

North Korea willing to hold talks with U.S?

Feb 25, 2018, at 10:55 pm

Seoul, Feb 25 (IBNS): A ranking North Korean official told South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday that his nation is willing to hold talks with the United States, media reports said.

Motorbike-bomb blast in Afghanistan kills 3

Feb 25, 2018, at 10:30 pm

Kabul, Feb 25 (IBNS): A  motorbike-bomb blast in the Yahyakhel district of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktika province left at least three people killed on Sunday, media reports said.

UN chief condemns Mogadishu attacks, reiterates support in fight against terrorism

Feb 25, 2018, at 03:02 pm

New York, Feb 25 (JEN): Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the 23 February attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia, which claimed the lives of many civilians and injured numerous others.

Asia-Pacific countries pledge women, girl’s empowerment at high-level UN forum

Feb 25, 2018, at 02:59 pm

New York, Feb 25 (JEN): At a high-level United Nations regional consultation in Bangkok, senior government representatives from Asia and the Pacific committed to empower rural women and girls, to lift their standard of living and combat structural barriers impacting their human rights.

Canada: Patrick Brown sends libel notice to CTV News

Feb 25, 2018, at 05:19 am

Toronto, Feb 24 (IBNS): Resigned Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown has sent a libel notice to Bell Media, a parent firm of CTV News, for allegedly reporting a false sexual harassment case against him, media reports said.

Taliban attack leave 20 ANA soldiers killed

Feb 24, 2018, at 11:39 pm

Kabul, Feb 24 (IBNS): Taliban attacked military base in Afghanistan, killing at least 20 Afghan National Army soldiers on Saturday, media reports said.

Suicide blast in Kabul leaves 3 killed, 6 injured

Feb 24, 2018, at 11:17 pm

Kabul, Feb 24 (IBNS): At least three people were killed as a suicide blast rocked  Shash Darak area of Afghanistan's Kabul city on Saturday, media reports said.

Afghanistan: At least one dead in Kabul suicide attack

Feb 24, 2018, at 04:34 pm

Kabul, Feb 24 (IBNS): At least one person has died in a suicide bombing incident which rocked Afghanistan's Kabul city on Saturday, local media reports said.

Somalia: Two blasts in Mogadishu kills 18

Feb 24, 2018, at 03:20 pm

Mogadishu, Feb 24 (IBNS): Two blasts rocked Somalian capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 18 people, media reports said.

‘We can achieve peace, stability, prosperity in the Sahel,’ UN chief tells Brussels conference

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:59 pm

New York, Feb 24 (JEN): The United Nations and its partners met in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday to strengthen support for a group of five nations in Africa’s troubled Sahel region which are facing pressing challenges including extreme poverty, food and nutrition crises and violent extremism.

More Canadians smoking pot compared to 1985: Statistics Canada

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:56 pm

Ottawa, Feb 24 (IBNS): Consumption of Cannabis has more than doubled among Canadians who are 15 and older, a new Statistics Canada report said.

UN migration agency reports rise in displacement in northern Mali

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:55 pm

New York, Feb 24 (JEN): A resurgence of communal violence and armed conflict in recent weeks has led to an increase in the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Mali, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Friday.

Canada: A document released from LAC unveils history of Canada's First Nations sick children

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:53 pm

Ottawa, Feb 24 (IBNS): Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) move to finally release a 98-year-old document on Ottawa's treatment of sick First Nations children has unveiled a part of Canada's history that has been hidden in the darkness of locked archives, media reports said.

UN chief inks pact to better coordinate counter-terrorism support to Governments

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:41 pm

New York, Feb 24 (JEN): Secretary-General António Guterres has signed a United Nations systemwide agreement to improve the coordination and coherence of the Organization’s activities to help Member States implement the UN’s counter-terrorism strategy.

Ethiopia: UN welcomes steps towards governance reforms and increased political participation

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:38 pm

New York, Feb 24 (JEN): The United Nations on Friday took note of the recent decision by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, to resign, to ‘allow further political reforms to take place in the country aimed at widening democratic space,’ and welcomed the Government’s expressed intention to follow through with governance reforms.

Uruguay: Helping the UN to keep the peace around the globe for nearly 70 years

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:33 pm

New York, Feb 24 (IBNS): Uruguay is one of over 120 countries working with the United Nations to help keep the peace around the globe. Whether military, police or civilian personnel, they share a common purpose: the protection of vulnerable communities and the provision of support to countries struggling to move from conflict to peace.

Rights violations in South Sudan may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, concludes UN panel

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:28 pm

Fresh threats loom over 720,000 Rohingya children ‘cast adrift, trapped in limbo’ – UNICEF

Feb 24, 2018, at 02:23 pm

New York, Feb 24 (JEN): Rohingya children are facing threats either from severe weather approaching Bangladesh where hundreds of thousands are sheltered in squalid, overcrowded refugee camps, or by ongoing violence in their Myanmar homeland,  the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, calling urgently for scaled-up assistance ahead of the region’s storm season and to address the root causes of the crisis.