At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in an explosion at a bus terminal in the Pakistani city of Multan, officials say. Officials say the explosion happened when a motorcycle hit a motorised rickshaw at…
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Egyptian security forces kill Mexican tourists by mistake
Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, during an anti-terror operation, the interior ministry says. The tourists were travelling in four vehicles that entered a restricted zone in the Wahat area of the Western Desert,…
Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque sees Israeli-Palestinian clashes
Israeli police clashed with Palestinian youths after entering the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem. Police say they entered the site “to prevent riots”. They were reported to have used tear gas and stun grenades, and were attacked with rocks…
India restaurant blast in Madhya Pradesh kills 89
At least 89 people have been killed in a powerful explosion that tore through a restaurant in Petlawad in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, officials say. It was packed with workers and schoolchildren eating breakfast.
Mantra for 9/11 : Fourteen years later, improbable world
By Tom Engelhardt Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of…
Where would they go?
In mega city Dhaka, traffic jam is a serious problem acting as retardation to our economic activities. In addition, blocking of footpaths by small businessmen is causing deceleration to our everyday movement. The law enforcers off and on conduct drives…
IS claims to mint gold coins to drive US to financial ruin
By Gillian Mohney The self-styled Islamic State (IS) claims it is now minting its own gold coins and other currency, according to a lengthy propaganda video released Saturday by the militant group. Entitled “The Rise of the Khilafah and the…
Yazidi leaders for proof ‘Jewish Schindler’ saved 128 women, children from IS
By Rachel Browne A group of Yazidi spiritual and political leaders, activists, and aid workers are demanding an inquiry into the work of a Montreal man who claims to have rescued 128 Yazidi and Christian women and children enslaved by…
U.S. vs. Iraq: 25 years and counting
By Mickey Z. On July 25, 1990, Saddam Hussein entertained a guest at the Presidential Palace in Baghdad: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. Glaspie told the Iraqi president: ‘I have direct instructions from President (George H.W.) Bush to improve…
Not forgotten: Son of an abductee in N. Korea fights on
S. Korean has sacrificed family, career and health to free his father, victim of a 1969 plane hijacking My hometown, southern sea, I can see the blue water / How can I forget the calm sea in the village /…
Japan PM Abe to deliver closely watched WW2 statement
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver a much-anticipated statement on Friday marking 70 years since his country’s World War Two surrender. Its content will be closely watched by Japan’s neighbours, who are concerned he may water down past apologies…
Night operation against the IS: The battle for Rojava
The northeastern city of Hasakah is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Syria. Its population of Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and Christians was until recently politically divided between equal zones of Kurdish and Assad regime control. Immediately following…
Defining and regulating the weaponisation of space – Analysis
By David C. DeFrieze | Space is a contested, congested, and competitive domain. Each year the international community relies ever more on space-based technology for defense, civil, and commercial purposes. Accordingly, the weaponization of space has increasingly become an issue…
S. Korea to install anti-N. Korea loudspeakers in propaganda warfare
Broadcast was ceased in 2004, to be reinstated following mine incident from last week South Korean Ministry of Defense has announced plans to use propaganda loudspeakers near Paju as a measure against North Korea’s recent mine attack that seriously injured…
‘Shots fired’ at US Istanbul consulate
Two gunmen have opened fire outside the US consulate in Istanbul and fled when police shot back, reports say. No-one is reported to have been hurt.
EU Del condemns blogger Niloy murder, seeks immediate action
EU Delegation to Bangladesh in a statement to the press on early Sunday morning condemned the murder of blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, demanded immediate action against those involved in the murder and gave sincere condolen ces to his widow and…
Hiroshima-Nagasaki: 70-year nuclear explosions not done yet
By David Swanson This August 6th and 9th millions of people marke the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in those cities and at events around the world. Some will celebrate the recent deal in which…
Suicide attack ‘hits Turkish troops’, two soldiers killed
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and 31 wounded in a suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants, the Turkish military says. A tractor laden with explosives was driven at a military police station, a statement said. The attack happened early…
Hong Kong protest over ‘breast as weapon’ conviction
Dozens of bra-wearing men and women have protested in Hong Kong after a woman was jailed for assaulting a senior policeman with her breast. Ng Lai-ying, 30, had accused Chief Inspector Chan Ka-po of touching her breast during a protest…
Taliban choose deputy Mansour as successor of Mullah Omar
The Taliban have appointed a successor to Mullah Omar, who led the movement for some 20 years. The death of Mullah Omar – reported by the Afghan government on Wednesday – was confirmed by the Taliban on Thursday, the BBC…
India executes Mumbai bomb plotter Yakub Memon
India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state. The serial blasts killed 257 people, and…
Gunmen attack Indian Punjab police station: 5 killed 6 hurt
Indian security forces are battling gunmen who stormed a police station in northern Punjab state, close to the border with Pakistan. The attackers first hijacked a car, then opened fire at a bus station before entering a police station in…
PCJSS leader among two shot dead in Rangamati
Two tribal people, including a leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), were shot dead in an attack by miscreants at Lemuchari in Sadar upazila early Sunday. The deceased were identified as Supriya Chakma, a leader of the PCJSS…
Turkey allows US to use airbase for strikes against IS
Turkey is to let the US carry out airstrikes against the Islamic State group from a key military base near the Syrian border, US officials have said. The agreement, yet to be confirmed by Ankara, follows months of negotiations. The…
Srebrenica residents try to move on from massacre
By Guy Delauney For people in Srebrenica, it is tempting to feel that the town only exists for a few days a year – at least as far as the rest of the world is concerned. The first indication that…
Rakkhine minister’s damgerpos lie to coverup genocide
The European Rohingya Council (ERC) has refuted Rakhine State Minister Maung Maung Ohn’s claims in an interview with an Indian magazine terming his words as lies and utter denial of the real situation. Maung Maung Ohn in the interview claimed…
How Colombia’s army executed civilians, called them guerrillas
By Joe Parkin Daniels On March 16, 2007, a Colombian military general named Henry William Torres Escalante gave the “direct order” to kill an unarmed farmer and his teenage son, dress them with weapons, and declare their bodies enemy combatants…
Indian raid into Mynmar raises regional tensions
A cross-border raid last week by Indian soldiers into Myanmar has raised regional tensions. The unusual operation targeted insurgents after the biggest rebel attack on Indian soldiers in two decades. The BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder travelled to the north-eastern state of…
B’desh, Myanmar exhange fire as BGB man taken from Naf
State Minister for Home Asaduzzman Khan on Wednesday said the border guards of Bangladesh and Myanmar exchanged gunfire at Jadimura of the NafRiver in Teknaf upazila due to misunderstanding. “However, the cause of misunderstanding between the border guards of the…
Korea conducts joint navy-artillery night training drill
Drill tests joint defensive operation capability, tests new technology North Korea’s Korean People’s Army conducted a “night naval fire strike drill” attended by Kim Jong Un,the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday. Artillery units from the KPA 10th Corps…