AFP, KIEV: Ukraine yesterday said it had repelled a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threatened to erase a shacky ceasefire and dangerously escalate the 16-month war in its breakaway east. President Petro Poroshenko said about “200 insurgents used tanks to storm” Novolaspa—a…

AFP, NEW DELHI: A stampede outside a temple killed at least 11 pilgrims in eastern India early yesterday after thousands tried to jump a queue that stretched for kilometres during a holy Hindu month, a police officer said. Authorities said devotees who had massed outside overnight had rushed towards…

AFP, KABUL: At least five people were killed yesterday when a Taliban suicide car bomber struck near the entrance of Kabul's international airport, the latest in a wave of lethal bombings in the Afghan capital. The Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the blast, have stepped up attacks amid…

AFP, CAIRO: Egypt yesterday postponed again its verdict in the trial of the brother of the Al-Qaeda chief but sentenced 10 co-defendants to death for forming a “terrorist group”, a court official said. The verdict against Mohamed al-Zawahiri, whose brother Ayman al-Zawahiri heads the global…

AFP, SHANGHAI: The number of people killed by Typhoon Soudelor in China rose to 21 yesterday, authorities said, with five more missing. Four died on Monday as the storm—downgraded to a tropical depression by the China Meteorological Administration—battered the eastern province of Anhui,…

AFP, TRIPOLI: A car bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group has killed nine people and wounded dozens in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Derna, a medical source said. “Nine persons were killed and dozens wounded in a car bomb in Derna city” yesterday night, a medical official…