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December 24 At least 285 people have been killed in as a Tsunami following a volcanic eruption struck without warning into Indonesia's Sunda Strait on Saturday night, cutting a swathe of destruction and triggering mass panic as it swept inland. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed by the wave, which hit the coast of southern Sumatra and the western tip of Java late night on Saturday following the eruption of a volcano known as the "child" of the legendary Krakatoa, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. The teams engaged in Search and rescue told the Media that 285 have been confirmed dead, hundreds of people injured and reported missing across three regions.buy metformin online noprescriptionrxbuyonline.com/metformin.html no prescription A video posted ...

December 23 At least 168 people have been killed in as a Tsunami following a volcanic eruption struck without warning into Indonesia's Sunda Strait on Saturday night, cutting a swathe of destruction and triggering mass panic as it swept inland. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed by the wave, which hit the coast of southern Sumatra and the western tip of Java late night on Saturday following the eruption of a volcano known as the "child" of the legendary Krakatoa, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. The teams engaged in Search and rescue told the Media that 168 have been confirmed dead, 745 people injured and 30 reported missing across three regions. A video posted on social media showed a wall of water suddenly crashing into an open-air concert by po...

December 22 A bus carrying college students and their teachers back from an educational trip veered off a mountainous road and lunged into a ravine in Nepal, killing 23 people and injuring 14 others. The fatal crash occurred on Friday when the bus was returning from Kapurkot in Salyan district. According to the District Police Office, Dang, there were 37 persons 34 students, two teachers and a diver, on the ill-fated bus, which drove off the road and fell some 700 metres down near Ramri village, about 400 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu. Fourteen persons, including five women, were injured in the incident. The students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had been visiting a farm for their botany project, The Kathmandu Post reported. Poor...

December 18 Six militants including a Taliban judge were killed after Afghan force aircraft attacked a Taliban hideout in Dawlat Abad district of the northern Faryab province on Monday, said an army statement released here Tuesday. "Mullah Rasoul the Taliban shadow judge for Faryab province was killed along with five armed insurgents after fighting aircraft targeted Taliban hideout in Firoza village of Dawlat Abad district on Monday afternoon," the statement asserted. Three more militants were injured in the strikes, the statement continued. Taliban outfit has not made any comment as of yet. (Source: Xinhua) 

December 17 In a continuation of crackdown against indigenous voices, Facebook and Twitter have taken down prominent pages from the Kashmir valley and the voice supporting dissent in Kashmir. The Facebook page of Weekly news Magazine, Free Press Kashmir (FPK), was barred by Facebook from its platform for a period of more than 48 hours, the page was back automatically. Qazi Zaid, one of the founders of FPK said that, "The ban is plainly choking the freedom of press, Facebook and other social media platforms need to give more space to reportage and freedom of expression and speech." Similarly, Facebook also removed a post from the Facebook page of The Kashmiriyat providing a detailed list of Militant killings till November 2018, Facebook said that the post does not follow the com...

December 10 The United States said on Monday that the Kashmir dispute was different from the broader issue of terrorism in South Asia and those two issues should not be confused with each other, reported Dawn. “We are talking about two separate issues here. I want to make a distinction between the Kashmir issue and the broader issue of our concern about extremism in that region,” a State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told a briefing in Washington. Responding to a question by an Indian journalist who tried to link the Kashmir issue with the terrorism practised by Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, Ms Harf said: “I will emphasise that these are two separate issues and our views on both are well-known.” Reiterating the US position of treating Kashmir as a dispute that needs to b...

November 26 The speaker in a women conference in the United Kingdom have said that Kashmiri women are suffering on daily basis and have sought support from all those people who believe in a peaceful world to help bring an end to the atrocities and human rights abuses committed by the forces in  Kashmir. The demand was made at an event titled “Women in Crisis in Conflict Areas with Special Reference to Kashmir” on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The event was organised by Kashmir Women Movement UK and EU at Lord Mayors Council House in Birmingham. Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari was chief guest on occasion. The other participants of the panel included members of British and European Parliament, social activists and Kas...

November 26 Up to 145 pilot whales that were stranded on a remote beach on the southern tip of New Zealand have died, the country's Department of Conservation (DOC) said on Monday. A hiker found the two pods late on Saturday on Stewart Island. Half of the whales were already dead by the time he arrived. The DOC decided to euthanize the remaining whales, DOC manager Ren Leppens said. The remote location and lack of nearby personnel meant successfully refloating the whales was highly unlikely. Mass strandings of pilot whales are rare in New Zealand The DOC did not say what had caused the stranding, but added that sickness, predators or extreme weather could have been factors. In a separate case, 10 pygmy killer whales stranded themselves on a beach in the north of the count...

November 26 The Pakistani police have reportedly arrested over  1200 members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan, including the radical Islamist party's chief who had given a protest call for Sunday against the acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi. Last month, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) disrupted daily life across Pakistan by staging widespread protests following Bibi's acquittal in a blasphemy case by the apex court.buy doxycycline online buywithoutprescriptiononlinerx.com/doxycycline.html no prescription "We have taken into custody more than 1200 TLP leaders and activists including its chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi from Lahore and other parts of the Punjab province," a senior police officer said on Saturday. He said a team comprising government officials and clerics tried...