OAXACA, Mexico,(APP/AFP) – Unidentified gunmen opened fired as police and teachers clashed in southern Mexico on Sunday during a protest that left six people dead and more than 100 injured, authorities said. The violence erupted as police threw tear gas at the protesters to end a week-long barricade that was blocking a road in Asuncion […]
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Six dead, more than 100 injured in Mexico protest
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At least 14 dead in Kabul minibus suicide attack
KABUL, (APP/AFP) – At least 14 people were killed and eight wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a minibus carrying Nepalese security guards in Kabul Monday, an Afghan interior ministry spokesman said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack on social media, claiming it was “against the forces of aggression” in Afghanistan. It […]
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Iraq forces eye Mosul after Fallujah breakthrough: minister
KIRKUK, Iraq, (APP/AFP) – Iraqi forces renewed their offensive against the Islamic State group around second city Mosul on Saturday after driving the jihadists out of most of Fallujah, the defence minister said. Mosul is the last major urban centre in Iraq still under IS control after Iraqi forces raised the national flag over government […]
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Teenage killed in Bangladesh after Hindu attack
DHAKA, (APP/AFP): A teenage suspected Islamist militant being held in custody in Bangladesh was shot dead Saturday in a gunfight, police said, days after he allegedly hacked and critically wounded a Hindu lecturer. Police said Golam Faizullah Fahim, 19, who was in custody for questioning, was killed when officers under attack in a farmland area […]
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Belgium stages dozens of anti-terror raids, 12 held
BRUSSELS, (APP/AFP) – “Several dozen” anti-terror raids were carried out across Belgium overnight in a case that needed “immediate intervention”, and 12 people have been held, federal prosecutors said Saturday. The raids took place in 16 communes in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia and “passed off without incident,” they said in a statement, adding that “no […]
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Migrants in Indonesia boat stand-off brought ashore
LHOKNGA, Indonesia, (APP/AFP) – Dozens of Sri Lankan migrants stranded on a boat off Indonesia were allowed to come ashore Saturday, easing a tense stand-off with local authorities. The 44 migrants, who include many women and children, had been stuck on a boat off Aceh province for a week as authorities in the western province […]