On Saturday, nearly 1,000 protesters attempted to storm into Baghdad's Green Zone, a heavily fortified area with a number of foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government, in reaction to reports of the Quran burning in Denmark.
One was an IDF officer performing reserve military service who was reported to have been lightly injured by shrapnel. He received initial medical treatment on the spot and was taken to a hospital while conscious.
As per the ministry, the journalists were wounded in a Ukrainian artillery strike on Saturday. They were evacuated from the battlefield but RIA correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev died during the journey, it said.
Lahore authorities have restricted citizens from swimming in Ravi River and canals, while also advising children against “playing” on the banks, for a week amid rising water levels and reports of flooding in various nearby villages due to overflowing streams, Dawn reported.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two Naxal cadres, including a woman, in connection with an encounter that took place in 2019 near Tiriya village in Chhattisgarh claiming the lives of six Naxals and one civilian.
Three accused persons have been arrested in the Rs ₹51.50 lakh stolen from a cash van case, said Delhi Police on Tuesday. The robbery happened near Inderlok Metro station in the Sarai Rohilla area of Delhi.
On Friday morning, on specific information, BSF and Punjab Police launched a search operation and recovered the Pakistani drone from the outskirts of Mastgarh village.
Union Minister and Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy was stopped by the Telangana Police at Shamshabad airport on Thursday. He was on his way to Batasingaram village near Hyderabad to inspect the construction of double-bedroom houses for the poor under a state government scheme.
The Gangotri national highway was blocked on Thursday due to a landslide near Purana Thana, Dharasu Bandh, according to the District Disaster Management Officer.