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Multiple attacks kill many in Afghanistan
A series of attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country’s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul. The largest attack on Saturday targeted the Shorab camp in Helmand province, where the demining workers were based, Afghan police spokesman[…]
Taliban attack former NATO base in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents have launched a prolonged attack on a major Afghan army base that was handed over by NATO forces last month, officials said Friday, in another sign the militants are on the offensive as foreign troops leave. Camp Bastion, now know as Shorabak, was Britain’s biggest military base in[…]
Province faces medicine shortage
The Western Cape is facing a shortage of vital medication, as a result of “poor management”. The late award of pharmaceutical tenders by the National Department of Health as well as the removal from contracts of coded medicines not listed in the National Essential Medicines list, has led to certain[…]
17 killed in bombings in and around Baghdad
Suspected Sunni rebels struck in and around Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 17 people including 11 soldiers and policemen, and injuring about 40 in three separate attacks, including two suicide bombings, according to police and hospital officials. The largest of Wednesday’s attacks was in the turbulent Youssifiyah district south of Baghdad[…]
ISIL shells Kobane’s border post with Turkey
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have shelled the border crossing between Syria and Turkey in their latest attempt to stop an expected arrival of Kurdish troops from Iraq to help defend Kobane. Friday’s bombardment of the Mursitpinar post came a day after a first contingent[…]
US court hears Guantanamo force-feeding case
Hunger-striking prisoners who are force-fed at Guantanamo Bay can choose from several flavours for the liquid meal they must ingest, and well-behaved inmates sometimes are force-fed communally, a US court has heard. In a testimony outlining procedures at the US Naval base in southeastern Cuba, government officials described how prison[…]
Deaths in Kurdish protests across Turkey
At least nine people were killed in demonstrations across Turkey, local media reported, as Kurds demanded the government do more to protect the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobane from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters who burnt cars[…]
Al Imdaad donates flour for displaced Syrians
The Al Imdaad foundation has recently embarked on the ‘I Need You’ campaign which centres around the produce of a universal staple, bread, for the millions of displaced Syrians who face hunger on a daily basis. Due to the current crisis, larger amount of Syrians have either fled their homes[…]
Hong Kong and China: One country, two cultures
FEATURE- Tensions between Hong Kong and the rest of China are not just political, as increasing interaction and cultural differences in recent years cause rising friction between locals and mainlanders. When Echo Wanyu Li returned from her studies abroad, she found discrimination in Hong Kong, on the doorstep of her[…]
Sierra Leone quarantines over one million
Sierra Leone has ordered the indefinite quarantine “with immediate effect” of three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms – a move that will affect more than one million people. President Ernest Bai Koroma, in a national televised address on Wednesday, announced that the northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali were[…]