Saturday
Caracas: A new assembly loyal to President Nicolas Maduro fired Venezuela's attorney general, a vociferous critic, in its first working session today, bolstering criticism it is acting to create a "dictatorship. "
Saturday
Caracas: A new assembly loyal to President Nicolas Maduro fired Venezuela's attorney general, a vociferous critic, in its first working session today, bolstering criticism it is acting to create a "dictatorship."
United Nations: The UN Security Council on unanimously backed a US-drafted resolution that significantly strengthened sanctions on North Korea, with a ban on exports aimed at depriving Pyongyang of USD 1 billion in annual revenue.
Tehran: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said that his administration and country will show a "unified" response to a breach of the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
Sunday
Warri: Twelve worshippers were shot dead at a church in southeast Nigeria today, with authorities suggesting the bloodshed was due to a local feud.
Manila: China today scored a diplomatic coup in its campaign to weaken regional resistance against its sweeping claims to the South China Sea when Southeast Asian nations issued a diluted statement on the dispute and agreed to Beijing's terms on talks.
Jerusalem: Israel today said it plans to ban Qatar's flagship Al-Jazeera news network from operating in the country, joining regional Arab states that shut down the broadcaster amid allegations that it incites to violence.
Monday
Lahore: An explosive device tonight went off inside a truck parked on the route former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif is to take on Wednesday for a public rally in Lahore, injuring at least 35 people, officials said.
Islamabad: Pakistan's banned militant outfit Jamaat-ud- Dawa today launched a political party, days after authorities extended its chief and Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed's "house arrest" for two months fearing threat to public order.
London: British Prime Minister Theresa May's office today denied weekend media claims that the UK government was reconciled to paying the European Union nearly 40 billion euros as part of a so-called Brexit divorce bill.
Tuesday
Beirut: US-led coalition raids on Raqa in northern Syria have killed 29 civilians over the past 24 hours as American- backed forces battle the Islamic Stategroup, a monitor said today.
Nairobi: Vote counting was underway in Kenya today night after elections dominated by a close battle between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga, which has raised fears of violence in east Africa's most vibrant democracy.
Bedminster (US): President Donald Trump today laid down the gauntlet to nuclear-armed North Korea, warning Pyongyang that if it continues to threaten the United States, it will be struck with "fire and fury."
Wednesday
Washington: Defence Secretary Jim Mattis today warned North Korea to "stand down" from pursuing nuclear weapons and cease considering actions that would lead to the "end of its regime", after Pyongyang threatened missile strikes against US strategic military installations in Guam.
Islamabad: Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif today began a defiant roadshow from Islamabad to his ruling party's stronghold, Lahore, in a bid to project his political strength ahead of the crucial general elections next year.
Washington: Donald Trump was sending a strong message to North Korea in a language "that Kim Jong-Un would understand", US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said today as he defended the president's "fire and fury" warning to Pyongyang over its nuclear threat.
Thursday
Washington: Pakistan has built a "hardened, secure, underground" complex in a remote mountainous region in the restive Balochistan province that could serve as a storage site for nuclear warheads, an American thinktank said today.
Dubai: At least 56 people have drowned over the past 24 hours, and dozens remain missing, after human traffickers forced 300 African migrants off two Yemen-bound boats and into the sea.
Beijing: Rescuers in China today intensified their search for residents missing in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake which struck a mountainous region in China's southwest Sichuan province, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 400.
Friday
Cairo: At least 41 people were killed and nearly 180 others injured today after two trains collided near Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, officials said.
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif today termed his disqualification from premiership as a "joke" and exuded confidence that he will be elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the fourth time.
Kathmandu: Nepal has benefited tremendously from its "historic" ties with India and it seeks to further strengthen its bilateral relations with New Delhi, the Himalayan nation's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said today.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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