…ion. Ghazala Javed and her father were killed when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them late on Monday Singers and dancers were particularly targeted by insurgents when they overran the area in 2007. Ghazala Javed at one point was also forced to stop singing because of threats. The singer, who was in her twenties, later married a businessman but they are thought to have divorced. Correspond…
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Waves of bomb attacks and shootings in north of Baghdad have killed at least 82 people, say security and medical officials. Many of those killed were security forces – who appear to have been a prime target. One of the worst-hit places was Taji, a Sunni neighbourhood some 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, where at least 18 people were killed. At least 112 people were wounded on one of the…
Five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been fatally shot in a string of co-ordinated attacks – four within 20 minutes across Karachi. The fifth woman was shot and wounded in the city of Peshawar in the north-west and later died of her injuries. A UN-backed programme to eradicate polio – which is endemic in Pakistan – has been suspended in Karachi. No group has said…
…tracked to a wooded area, and that no civilians were harmed in the attack. Last Friday night, a helicopter carrying US commando troops was shot down by Taliban rockets. 38 people, among which at least 20 soldiers from the elite Navy SEAL, unit that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, have died after the NATO machine crashed in eastern Afghanistan, in an area controlled by Islamist militants ….
At least 50 people have been killed and more than 70 have been injured in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad. Provincial officials said at least Shia pilgrims died in a suicide attack near the city of Nasiriya. Earlier, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said at least 24 people were killed in blasts in Shia areas of Baghdad. The attacks come amid a rise in sectarian tensions aft…
…e terrifying shooting at Salon Meritage, Orange County authorities rushed to the scene and seized Scott Dekraai in a traffic stop half a mile away. Scott Dekraai is said to have moved to Seal Beach in 2009, after he was honourably discharged from the military because of a work-related leg injury. The gunman worked on tugboats after being discharged by the military and walked with a limp after a bo…
…Some reports say Yemeni troops were involved, others that it was an air strike, possibly a US drone attack. Said al-Shihri, a Saudi national, was released by the US from detention in Guantanamo Bay in 2007. Yemen has previously announced it had killed Said al-Shihri and his death this time has not been confirmed. The Yemeni army has been fighting Islamist militants in the south of the country for…
de guidance to the Pakistan-based operation. Analysts have said that he was in charge of day-to-day operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. He was reported killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Pakistan’s frontier tribal region is considered a hub of activity by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and it is very difficult to verify…
…Wana area. Reports say he was also seen as an enemy of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and praised by Pakistan for expelling Uzbek and other foreign fighters from Pakistan in 2007. His death could be a contentious issue between Washington and Islamabad, they add, because the Pakistani military views commanders like him as key to keeping the peace internally. For years, he…
At least 21 suspected militants have been killed in two separate attacks of an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan, according to Pakistani security officials. The missiles struck targets in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. Pakistan has previously complained that such attacks violate its sovereignty. Last month, President Barack Obama defended the use of dro…
…ooper out of uniform was shot dead in a residential area of Toulouse just over a week ago, while two soldiers were killed and a third wounded as they used a cash machine in the town of Montauban, some 29 miles (46 km) away, on Thursday. All three – of North African and Caribbean origin – were shot by a man on a scooter. A .45 calibre weapon was also used in the Montauban shootings. Pol…
About 150 people have been killed during the co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured. A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings, passport offices and immigration centres on the city, which is now under a 24-hour curfew. Boko Haram milita…
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Western sentiment has been stoked further by caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published this week in the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo. France shut embassies and other missions in around 20 countries across the Muslim world on Friday. Protests were banned in France itself and in Tunisia, where France is the former colonial power, but there were widespread demonstrations elsewhere: •…
…nd the Shi’ite minority, but since the fall of the Taliban the country had been spared the large scale sectarian attacks that have troubled neighbouring Pakistan. Shi’ites account for some 20% of the population in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan. The Taliban insurgency has largely avoided fanning secretarian strife. The bombing is one of the deadliest in the ten years of war since the…
The French police siege in Toulouse has ended with the death of Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people, the French interior minister has said. Police stormed the flat where Mohammed Merah was holed up at 10:30 a.m., after a siege that had lasted 32 hours. Mohamed Merah, 23, fired at officers and was found dead after jumping from a window. The self-confessed al-Qaeda militant was…
Two people, including a senior Palestinian militant leader, have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was targeted because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said. The Israeli military later confirmed a second air strike killed two more people it says were pre…
…reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice.” There was no immediate comment from Remi Ochlik’s agency, IP3 Press. Remi Ochlik, 28, had reported from Haiti and covered many of the recent uprisings in the Arab world. Marie Colvin, in her 50s, had been a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times for two decades, and had report…
…in the town of Finale Emilia, near the epicentre of the first tremor. Sunday’s quake was the worst to hit the country since the L’Aquila tremor killed nearly 300 people in central Italy in 2009. The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 10km just after 04:00 a.m. local time. It was felt across a large swathe of northern Italy, including the cities of Bologna, Ferrara, Vero…
…nyan court ruled he should not be charged. After years as a senior member in the long-dominant Kanu party, George Saitoti joined the current president Mwai Kibaki’s National Alliance of Kenya in 2002. As Internal Security Minister under Mwai Kibaki, he was a leading government voice against the Somali militant group al-Shabab. Kenyan troops have been fighting al-Shabab in Somalia since they…
South Sudan officials announced that at least 40 people have been killed by armed gunmen in a cattle raid in Warrap state. According to other reports as many as 100 people could have been killed in the attack on a camp in Warrap state. South Sudan’s interior minister accused the Sudanese government in Khartoum of arming the attackers, a militia group from Unity State, AFP reports. Tensions…
…e issue of civilian deaths by international forces has created tensions between the US President Karzai. In August, UN figures suggested the number of civilians killed and injured in the first half of 2012 had fallen 15% on the same period of 2011. Analysts said increased sensitivity on both sides about the impact of civilian deaths had led to more carefully targeted attacks. In his statement, Pre…
…There has been a surge in inter-union violence at mines recently. Earlier this month, another firm, Aquarius Platinum, briefly shut one of its shafts after an attack that left three dead and at least 20 injured, Reuters news agency reports. Police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said the attackers were deploying “guerrilla tactics”, rapidly forming crowds to carry out attacks R…
17 South Sudanese civilians have been killed during air raids by Sudan’s military, an official said. South Sudan’s military spokesman Philip Aguer said those killed were cattle herders in West Bahr al-Ghazal state – further west than other recent clashes. Sudan has denied the allegations but Col. Philip Aguer said no other power in the region could carry out the bombing. The sou…
The unseasonable snowstorm which hit the US East Coast, with some areas of Massachusetts seeing more than 27 inches (68 cm) of snow, killed at least nine people and left three million houses without power. Tv footages show snow in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vermont while in New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters said they were not deterred by the weather. According to authorities, at least nine…
A French TV reporter, who has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs among other eight today, is the first Western journalist to die in the country’s current unrest. Gilles Jacquier was on a government-authorized trip to the city, the France 2 channel said. Syrian TV said Gilles Jacquier was among eight killed. A colleague said that minutes earlier they had interviewed some people at a pro-…
