A Sikh man was killed and two other Sikhs were wounded Wednesday when gunmen opened fire at a group of Sikhs in a market in Peshawar in Pakistan, the media said.
The injured were taken to a hospital, Dawn online reported. An estimated 20,000 Sikhs live in Pakistan, mostly in Punjab province.
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended for the day Thursday with no sightings made in the search area in the southern Indian Ocean yet again and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search operation is "the most difficult in human history".
A senior UN official Thursday urged Afghans to use the presidential and provincial council elections two days hence to shape the future of the country through peaceful, democratic means.
No sightings were reported at the conclusion of Wednesday's search operation in the southern Indian Ocean for the “lost” Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 even as a senior Malaysian official said that all passengers on board the jet have been “cleared” in a criminal investigation that is being conducted.
Britain's military headquarters in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan has been disbanded after eight years of frontline operations, the British defence ministry announced Wednesday.
Tsunami waves generated by an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale that hit off the Chile coast Tuesday struck some areas in the north of the country.
NATO foreign ministers have agreed to suspend "all practical civilian and military cooperation" with Russia over its annexation of Crimea, as the Western military alliance saw "no sign" that Russia is pulling its forces back from the border with Ukraine.
