At least three were killed and dozens were injured after an elders care center caught fire in Taiwan early Wednesday, said rescuers.
Japan's Fast Retailing Co., owner of the Uniqlo casual-wear brand, said it plans to suspend all business travel to Bangladesh after militants targeting foreigners killed 20 people in the country's capital on Saturday, including seven Japanese.
Relatives of the seven Japanese killed and one injured in a terrorist attack in Dhaka have arrived in the Bangladeshi capital.
India put its border forces on alert Saturday in eastern and northeastern states bordering Bangladesh, after gunmen attacked a Dhaka restaurant.
Gunmen killed 20 foreigners by slitting throats soon after they stormed a Spanish restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, a spokesman of the Bangladesh Army said on Saturday.
The situation in Afghanistan seems different as militants have intensified activities since the beginning of the holy month.
No Chinese national has been found among the victims of the Florida nightclub mass shooting so far, the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston said Sunday.
Fifty people were killed and 53 others wounded early Sunday in a shooting spree at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which became the worst mass shooting incident in the U.S. history.
A U.S. journalist and his Afghan translator, were killed as militants attacked an Afghan army convoy in the southern Helmand province on Sunday, an Afghan military official confirmed early Monday.
Massive rain and windstorms on Wednesday evening hit Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore and some other parts of the country, killing at least 15 persons as walls and roofs collapsed while billboards and trees were uprooted. As many as 75 persons were also injured in the windstorm.
A total of 99 militants had been killed and 60 others wounded within the last 24 hours across Afghanistan, the country's Defense Ministry said on Thursday morning.
A suicide car bomber crashed into a gate outside a hotel frequented by lawmakers in the centre of the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday and the attack was followed by gunfire, killing 15 people, police said.
A fire at one of India’s largest military ammunition depots on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and injured scores more, officials said, as footage showed flames lighting up the night sky.
Afghan government forces have increased pressure on anti-government militants since the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as armed insurgents have been killed across the militancy-plagued country over the past week.
A total of 20 people were killed and 47 injured on Tuesday in two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, as Islamic State (IS) group claims the deadly suicide attack, security sources and IS online statement said.
About 29 militants were killed in two separate airstrikes in northern Afghanistan on Monday, authorities said.
Five policemen were killed and 14 others wounded on Saturday in three suicide bomb attacks by Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
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