Gunmen killed a member of Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday, in Tehran’s east, according to state news agency IRNA. According to IRNA, “Sayyad Khodai… was assassinated during a gun attack carried out by two motorcyclists in Tehran’s Mohahedin-e Eslam Street.” The agency referred to him as a “defender of the sanctuary,” a term used to … Read more
Security forces of Sudan killed one protester on Saturday during renewed demonstrations against a military takeover that derailed a transition to civilian rule last year, medics said. The victim, who was not identified, died as a result of “a bullet to the chest” in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman, the pro-democracy Central Committee of … Read more
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Thursday that his government had purchased Russian-made Iskander nuclear-capable missiles and S-400 anti-aircraft anti-missile systems. The announcement came on the 85th day of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, with thousands killed. Belarus, Moscow’s main ally, has allowed Russian troops to use the country bordering Ukraine as a rear base. “We’ve … Read more
After deadly skirmishes erupted in Tajikistan’s eastern area, which the authoritarian state has long battled to control, police said over 100 people were arrested in a “counter-terror operation” on Thursday. Nine people, eight of whom the government described as “militants”, and one officer were killed Wednesday following the worst violence in the remote Gorno-Badakhshan region since 2012. … Read more
Two suspects have been arrested by Nigerian police in connection with the kidnapping of students from a Nigerian college last year, one of the most high-profile cases in a recent run of pupil abductions. Gunmen killed a member of staff as they stormed Greenfield University in northwestern state of Kaduna on April 20, 2021, before seizing around … Read more
In a Kyiv court on Thursday, the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes in Ukraine prayed for “forgiveness” and told how he killed a civilian in the early days of Russia’s invasion. “I know that you will not be able to forgive me, but nevertheless I ask you for forgiveness,” 21-year-old Russian sergeant … Read more
Two troops were killed in a multi-vehicle collision near Anchorage, Alaska, according to the US Army. The Army says Spc. Wyne Lyndon Jacob Abonita, 22, and Pvt. Valsin David Tate Jr., 23, was killed in a car accident that injured two others. Both individuals were members of the 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment’s 2nd Battalion. … Read more
On Wednesday, four employees were granted suspended sentences for negligence in the 2017 gas terminal explosion in Austria, which killed one person and injured 22 others. They were “found guilty of negligently causing the explosion by failing to comply with their safety obligations”, a regional court in Korneuburg announced in a statement. A subcontracting company … Read more
According to authorities, a wall at a salt packaging factory in India’s western state of Gujarat collapsed on Wednesday, killing at least 12 workers. It was unclear what caused the 3.6-metre high wall to come down but police said they will be investigating the owner of the site for negligence. “12 people including five women … Read more
For the first time beyond the minority’s homeland in the north and east of the country, thousands of Tamils killed in Sri Lanka’s decades-long separatist war were honored on Wednesday. Clergy from Buddhist, Hindu and Christian communities offered prayers in Colombo and lit a clay lamp for those who perished between 1972 and May 2009 … Read more
Around 40 people, many of them civilian army volunteers, were killed in suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso on Monday, according to local sources and security officials. Around 25 people were killed in two attacks in the northern Sahel region on Saturday, including 13 VDP volunteers, according to a leader of the force. In Kompienga, … Read more
Officials claimed on Sunday that a suicide bomber attacked a military truck in Pakistan’s restive northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, killing three children and three soldiers. The mountainous frontier separating Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been a hive of militant activity, with fighters using the porous border to escape state security forces. On Saturday evening a … Read more
The Cannes Film Festival will screen the final film of Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed by Russian forces in Ukraine last month. Kvedaravicius was reportedly captured and killed while filming a sequel to his celebrated documentary “Mariupolis” about the conflict in the Donbas region. His fiancée Hanna Bilobrova, who was with him in … Read more
A tear gas grenade detonated during an assembly at a university in Bolivia on Monday, killing four students and injuring 70 others, according to the institution and police. According to rector Pedro Lopez, hundreds of students had gathered in an enclosed sports arena of a university in Potosi, Bolivia’s southeast, for student council elections. Police … Read more
Clashes between two rival gangs on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince have claimed the lives of at least 75 people In less than two weeks, including women and children, according to the UN. The United Nations expressed its “grave worry” about the city’s “rapid deterioration of the security situation.” “According to multiple sources, at … Read more
A sandstorm killed one person in Iraq on Thursday, while more than 5,000 people were treated in hospitals for respiratory illnesses, the health ministry reported. In a statement, health ministry spokesperson Seif al-Badr said that “one death has been recorded in Baghdad” and that hospitals “had received no less than 5,000 cases so far,” … Read more
Burundi’s army announced Wednesday that ten Burundian peacekeepers were killed in an Al-Shabaab jihadist attack on an African Union (AU) post in Somalia on Tuesday. Twenty-five soldiers were also injured and five are missing while 20 Al-Shabaab militants were killed, it said in a statement. It was the first attack on a peacekeeping base since … Read more
Witnesses and an aid group reported three people were killed in Sudan’s restive Darfur area on Friday, as the UN condemned recent hostilities that have killed over 200 people. West Darfur state, the arid region of Sudan bordering Chad, has for the past week been gripped by deadly violence between members of the Massalit community and … Read more
A member of parliament for the region told AFP on Friday that six soldiers were killed in a rebel assault in the Central African Republic’s southeast, where civil war has raged for years. “At four in the morning, rebels attacked the town of Nzako,” near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, 700 kilometres … Read more
Following a string of incidents in Israel since late March, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin on Wednesday, in what the army dubbed its latest “counterterrorism” raid. The army said that during the operation at Jenin’s refugee camp, troops used “live ammunition” after being targeted with gunfire … Read more
The criminal investigation into the fatal shooting on a US movie set starring Alec Baldwin is “nearing completion,” according to the officer in charge of the investigation. Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza’s comments come as his department released a trove of materials related to the incident that claimed the life of Halyna Hutchins on the … Read more
at least 10 had been killed in an accident of fate at the Zofiowka coal mine in southern Poland, a legitimate said Tuesday saying the discovery of the bodies of the last missing miners. Before dawn Saturday, a violent tremor struck at a depth of 900 meters (yards) inside the Zofiowka colliery, observed by a … Read more
During his first public appearance in the disputed territory since India launched a broad security clampdown nearly three years ago, India’s prime minister promised peace and development for Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has been working to put an end to a long-running insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir and consolidate India’s … Read more
According to local media sources, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Bosnia late Friday, killing one person and injuring numerous others. According to a medical source mentioned by the media, a 28-year-old woman was hurt when a rock fell on her house in the town of Stolac, near Mostar, and died in hospital. Several others, including … Read more
In an attack on a checkpoint in Iran’s restive southeast on Saturday, gunmen killed the bodyguard of a Revolutionary Guards commander, according to official television. The incident took place in Sistan-Baluchistan, a province bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan that is frequently the site of attacks or conflicts between security personnel and armed groups, according to the … Read more
On Thursday, a Bosnian court acquitted a former police commander of killing eight ethnic Serb prisoners of war during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Dragan Vikic and three other former policemen were acquitted “since it was not proven that they had committed the criminal acts that they were accused of”, the court said … Read more
The killing spree in Indian illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) continues as another Kashmiri youth has been martyred by the Indian troops on Wednesday, Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. According to KMS, the fresh act of state terrorism happened in the Shopian district. The troops martyred the youth during a cordon and search operation … Read more
Indian troops, in their fresh acts of state terrorism, martyred five more Kashmiri youth in Pulwama and Budgam districts of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported on Sunday. The troops martyred four youth during a cordon and search operation in the Naira area of Pulwama district and martyred one … Read more
