Articles Tagged “Regional”
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Air force kills own soldiers
A government warplane has mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more. The bombing, which took place on Saturday evening in the southern Abyan province, targeted an abandoned school used as shelter by soldiers of the army’s 119th Brigade. The school is located just east of [...]
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Israel ‘welcomes’ peace talks
Israel has accepted a call by international mediators to resume peace talks with the Palestinians and urged President Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) to do the same rather than pursue a UN bid for statehood. “Israel welcomes the Quartet call for direct negotiations between the parties without preconditions,” a statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office [...]
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Death plot dossier is handed in
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said it had handed Pakistan evidence that the Taliban’s leadership plotted the recent assassination of ex-president and government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani on Pakistani soil. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that the September suicide bombing that killed Rabbani, the government’s top peace negotiator, was plotted in an upmarket suburb of [...]
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Death plot dossier is handed in
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said it had handed Pakistan evidence that the Taliban’s leadership plotted the recent assassination of ex-president and government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani on Pakistani soil. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that the September suicide bombing that killed Rabbani, the government’s top peace negotiator, was plotted in an upmarket suburb of [...]
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King saves Saudi woman from lashes
Saudi King Abdullah has overturned a court ruling sentencing a Saudi woman to be lashed 10 times for defying the kingdom's ban on female drivers, a government official said Wednesday. The official declined to elaborate on the monarch's decision, and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media. A [...]
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Professor is gunned down in killing spree
A Syrian nuclear engineer has been assassinated, the latest casualty in a string of murders in the country this week of academics and scientists. Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said engineer and university professor Aws Khalil was shot in the head by an “armed terrorist group” operating in Homs, but activists accused the regime of going [...]
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Professor gunned down in killing spree
A Syrian nuclear engineer has been assassinated, the latest casualty in a string of murders in the country this week of academics and scientists. Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said engineer and university professor Aws Khalil was shot in the head by an “armed terrorist group” operating in Homs, but activists accused the regime of going [...]
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Bahrain protesters to remain jailed for life
A military court has upheld life sentences against Shia opposition leaders for organising protests earlier in the kingdom this year that threatened the Sunni monarchy’s grip on power, the state news agency said. The Bahrain security appeals court, set up during a period of martial law that ended in May, sentenced eight of 21 men on [...]
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Bahrain protesters stay jailed for life
A military court has upheld life sentences against Shia opposition leaders for organising protests earlier in the kingdom this year that threatened the Sunni monarchy’s grip on power, the state news agency said. The Bahrain security appeals court, set up during a period of martial law that ended in May, sentenced eight of 21 men on [...]
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Saudi woman sentenced to 10 lashes, for driving
A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 10 lashings with a whip for defying the kingdom's ban on female drivers, the first time a legal punishment has been handed down for a violation of the prohibition in the ultraconservative nation. Normally, police just stop female drivers, question them and let them go after they sign [...]
