NEW DELHI, April 21, (AFP): A father chopped off the hands of a teenager who allegedly raped his baby daughter before dumping him alive near …
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Iraq identifies 6 victims from mass graves in Ramadi – US ups pressure on IS with first B-52 strike
WASHINGTON, April 21, (Agencies): The US Air Force for the first time deployed a B-52 bomber against the Islamic State, the Pentagon said Wednesday as …
Read More »RIYADH UNDERSCORES INTER-GCC COORDINATION ON IRAN – US urges Gulf to ‘do more’ in Iraq
RIYADH, April 20, (Agencies): US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter pleaded Wednesday for greater Gulf financial and political involvement in Iraq, which is battling both Islamic …
Read More »7 Pakistani police guarding polio team shot down
KARACHI, April 20, (AFP): Gunmen on motorcycles gunned down seven policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, officials …
Read More »Dutch police crack ‘encrypted’ network
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 20, (AP): Dutch police and prosecutors took down an encrypted communications network Tuesday believed to have been used by criminals in …
Read More »Iraqi police find 2 mass graves in Islamic State-free Ramadi
BAGHDAD, April 20, (Agencies): Iraqi police on Tuesday unearthed two mass graves in the western city of Ramadi, with bodies of about 40 people killed …
Read More »Earthquake’s death toll rises to over 400- Rescuers race to find survivors
MANTA, Ecuador, April 19, (Agencies): Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death toll from …
Read More »Searchers find body in twin quakes – Japan opens prison to shelter evacuees
MINAMIASO, Japan, April 19, (Agencies): Searchers digging in a mountainous area of southern Japan where twin earthquakes triggered landslides found another body Tuesday, raising the …
Read More »Thirty dead & hundreds wounded as Afghan Taleban attack central Kabul – 1st hit in capital since militants’ spring offensive began
KABUL, April 19, (AFP): At least 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded when a Taleban truck bomb tore through central Kabul and a fierce …
Read More »Turkey kills 32 IS fighters in Iraq after ‘attack’: report
ISTANBUL, April 19, (AFP): The Turkish army killed 32 suspected fighters from the Islamic State group in northern Iraq on Tuesday following an attack on …
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