Casualties

TORONTO: A driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians, police said.…

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan: An Afghan airstrike on a religious school on Monday caused multiple casualties, including civilians, Afghan officials and witnesses said. "Several dead and at least 15 wounded", including children, were taken to the…

JAKARTA: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia Wednesday has nearly doubled to 97, the military said, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of scores of shattered buildings. The shallow…

WASHINGTON: The number of casualties from landmines and similar explosive devices soared to a 10-year-high last year as armed conflicts raged across the world, a report found Tuesday. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)…

KARACHI: Goods were million of rupees were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in a factory located here in Karachi, ARY News reported on Sunday.

JIANLI, CHINA: The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze River climbed to 97 on Friday as authorities righted the battered vessel and turned their efforts to recovering bodies still on board amid simmering anger…

DUBAI: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, killing and wounding several people.

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pervez Khattak Monday visited the injured of rainstorm-related incidents at a Peshawar hospital and directed the authorities for providing best medical treatment to them, ARY News reported.

BEIRUT: Nearly 100 fighters on both sides have been killed in a week of fighting in southern Syria between regime forces and rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday.

WASHINGTON: The U.S. military launched an air strike in Somalia on Monday targeting a senior leader of the al Qaeda-aligned al Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said.