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Terrorist attacks doubled in 2017: Europol report

  • THE HAGUE: Terrorist attacks on European targets more than doubled last year, Europe’s police agency said on Wednesday, warning the risk of more unsophisticated attacks by the so-called Islamic State group “remains acute”. Last year, a total 33 terror attacks were reported on the continent and Britain — 10 of which were successful, killing 62 […]

  • Saudi-led coalition seizes Yemen’s Hodeidah airport

    ADEN: Fears of a humanitarian crisis in Yemen’s main port city Hodeidah grew as fighting spilled into residential districts on Wednesday after Arab coalition forces seized the airport from the Iran-aligned Houthis. Residents said coalition aircraft were bombing Houthi positions on roads leading to the airport as the group dug in against an onslaught by […]

  • Militants’ rockets, Israeli air strikes heat up Gaza border

    GAZA: Several dozen roc­kets and mortar bombs lau­n­ched at Israel by Pales­tinians in Gaza, and Israeli air strikes on the enclave’s dominant Hamas militant group, raised the heat along the border on Wednesday. Despite the biggest flare-up in weeks in the area, no deaths were reported. But pledges by Israel and Pales­tinian militants to continue […]

  • Floods kill over 30, displace one million in India, BD

    DHAKA: Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in South Asia have killed dozens of people and displaced more than a million, mostly in north-east India and Bangladesh, authorities said on Tuesday. The Brahmaputra river, which flows from the Himalayas down to India and then through Bangladesh, has burst its banks, swamping more than 1,500 […]

  • Saudi Arabia arrests two more women activists: HRW

    Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, in an “unrelenting crackdown” just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The New York-based watchdog said activists Nouf Abdelaziz and Mayaa al-Zahrani were arrested earlier this month following the detention of at least 14 […]

  • US leaving UN’s Human Rights Council, cites anti-Israel bias

    The United States (US) is leaving the United Nations’ (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC), which Ambassador Nikki Haley called “an organisation that is not worthy of its name”. It’s the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution. Haley said Tuesday the US had given the human rights body “opportunity after opportunity” to […]