Mali Islamists attack UNESCO holy site in Timbuktu
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian fighters from the Ansar Dine Islamist group attacked and burned the tomb of one of the town’s saints, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, residents and a regional official said on Saturday. Only [...]
Eight dead in Ivory Coast attack
Eight people were killed and ten homes burned in an attack on a village in Ivory Coast’s restive south-west bordering Liberia, a military source said Thursday. The death toll was earlier been put at six and two people injured in the attack [...]
Xenophobic netizens attack Jasmine Lee – Manila Bulletin
Xenophobic netizens attack Jasmine LeeManila BulletinIn an editorial, English newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily described these accusations against Lee as “total garbage.” “The shameful attack on Lee in cyberspace was led by netizens [...]
Taliban attack the center of Kabul
The second day of a “spring offensive” by the Taliban in Afghanistan strikes near the country’s parliament building
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Aerial attack in South Sudan kills five
Five people were killed and five others wounded after an airplane dropped bombs Saturday on a town in South Sudan, a military spokesman in that fledgling country said — though a Sudanese military spokesman denied any such attack.
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Colombian soldiers die in attack
Ten Colombian soldiers and an officer are killed in an ambush by suspected Farc rebels in the south-east near the border with Venezuela.
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Afghan attack suspect at Leavenworth
Army officials said that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales had arrived at the prison in northeast Kansas
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Ex-Mossad chief: Don’t attack Iran now
Former chief of Israel’s Mossad says Iran is a “rational regime” in an interview about Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb
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Attack Targets Former Pakistani Interior Minister
A suicide bomber has attacked the convoy of former Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, killing one of his guards and wounding three other people.
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Twenty dead in attack in China’s restive west
BEIJING (Reuters) – Attackers wielding knives killed 13 people in China’s Xinjiang region before police shot seven of them dead, the government said, in the latest violence to strike the ethnically divided northwestern area. [...]
