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In Pakistan’s restive north Waziristan tribal district, two policemen who were escorting an anti-polio vaccination team were killed by unidentified assailants on Tuesday. While on a door-to-door anti-polio vaccination drive in the district bordering Afghanistan, gunmen attacked the team, killing one of its members and two policemen escorting them. The police launched an investigation into the killings. There has been no claim of responsibility for the killings. In recent years, attacks on workers of anti-polio vaccination drives have increased in Pakistan. In March of this year, gunmen shot and killed a female polio worker in northwest Pakistan as she returned…

An explosion caused by a crane malfunction in the Aqaba Port on Monday led to the deaths of 12 people and the injuries of 260 others, including 123 who are currently in hospitals, according to the National Center for Security and Crisis Management (NCSCM) in Jordan. The unfortunate incident is one of the deadliest accidents to strike Jordan in the last few years. The accident happened when the crane tried to place the gas tank on a ship; however, it failed to move the tank all the way and dropped it halfway, causing a major explosion and a leak of poisonous gas.…

Yesterday, the Indian Government sent a shipment containing 3,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan. Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson for the Indian External Affairs Ministry, has said that India’s commitment to providing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people remains steadfast. So far, the government of India has been able to deliver 33,500 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan in partnership with the World Food Programme. Afghanistan has a very dire need for support, with one third of the population hungry and two million children malnourished. Drought, pandemic, and conflict have worsened the food security situation, and hunger will increase so…

After the bodies of 22 young people at a nightclub in South Africa’s southern city of East London were found, police in the city launched an investigation. They ruled out a stampede. The deaths in this coastal town in South Africa, are being investigated by police forensic teams. It has yet to be established what caused the tragedy, which occurred during end-of-year celebrations by teenagers. Authorities said locals raised the alarm at around 4 AM. In a poor neighborhood named Scenery Park, police minister Bheki Cele sought to calm an angry crowd of relatives and residents gathered at the crime…

According to Iranian media reports, an earthquake measuring magnitude 5.6 on the Richter scale hit a southern Iranian province, killing at least one person and injuring more than 30 others. The quake struck 22 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Kish Island in Hormozgan province at around 8 A.M. local time and struck at a depth of 22 kilometers (14 miles), according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. In the nearby UAE, residents also felt the tremors of the earthquake. In the UAE, no damage was reported from the earthquake, according to the official Emirates News Agency WAM. The head of…

As part of its humanitarian assistance to the island nation, India sent a consignment worth 3 billion Srilankan rupees to Colombo. A consignment of 14,700 MT of rice, 250 MT of milk powder, and 38 MT of medicines was donated by the people of India. It is part of a larger delivery of 40,000 MT of rice, 500 MT of milk powder, and medicines by the Tamil Nadu government. The consignment was welcomed by the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, as well as Ministers from the Sri Lankan government, Keheliya Rambukwella and Nalin Fernando. The Indian government…

The Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand’s north island were rattled by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake , although there have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported that the epicenter of the earthquake sat at a depth of ten kilometers beneath the surface of the ocean.   There is a subduction zone between the Kermadec Plate and the Tongan Plate which runs east of the Kermadec Islands and marks the boundary between the Australian and Pacific Plates. The convergent boundary is the point where the denser Pacific Plate subducts or dives beneath the less dense…

Abdelfattah El-Sisi, the Egyptian president, and HH Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the Bahraini king, stressed the importance of improving Egyptian-Bahraini cooperation and coordination. This was said during President El-Sisi’s meeting with King Hamad bin Issa in Sharm El-Sheikh, said the official spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Ambassador Bassam Radi, in a statement. The two leaders also expressed their pleasure at the upcoming summit hosted by Saudi Arabia. This summit will be attended by the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States of America. In the course of the meeting, the two sides discussed…

It has been reported that the Kuwaiti government has handed over to Egypt five pharaonic artifacts that were confiscated by the Kuwaiti customs department at Kuwait’s airport in 2019. National Council for Culture Arts and Literature (NCCAL) head Sultan Al-Duwaish said that these valuable artifacts were smuggled from Al-Uqsur and examined again by experts from Kuwait University, Poland, and Egypt, who concluded that three were original pieces dating back to 1400 BC. Two of them were of questionable origin. Kuwaiti entities, including the foreign ministry, customs department, and NCCAL, all worked with the Egyptian embassy in Kuwait to examine and…

The National Seismic Network of the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) reports that an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 has struck south of Iran at 10:06 UTC today. In a statement released by the National Center for Monitoring, the NCM said that some areas of the country felt the earthquake slightly. There were three earthquakes off Iran’s southern Kish Island, which shook Dubai and other locations in the Arabian Gulf. Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.7 struck the island near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, followed by one of magnitude 5.9.