China has formally detained a dozen people over huge explosions in the city of Tianjin this month that killed at least 139 people, and has accused 11 officials and port executives of suspected dereliction of duty or abuse of power. Anger over safety standards is growing in China, after three[…]
Thai authorities said on Wednesday they were looking for accomplices of the chief suspect for the Bangkok shrine bomb blast that killed 22 people, a man who was captured on closed-circuit television (CCTV) dumping a backpack and walking away. “We suspect he is the bomber,” national police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri[…]
A blast in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State has killed at least 47 people and injured another 52, according to a military source and a civilian joint task force member. The explosion, in a region where hundreds of people have been killed in attacks by suspected members of Boko Haram in[…]
At least 25 people are reported to have been killed and 38 others wounded in a suicide attack in the northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, officials have said. Dr Naqibullah Fayeq, a prominent member of parliament, said the blast happened in Alamar district’s main market. The politician said dozens of[…]
Twin bombings have killed at least 17 people, including 10 children, near a school in the government-controlled area of central Syria. A Syrian pro-government channel aired on Wednesday a brief footage of the aftermath, showing distraught parents rushing about frantically looking for their children, amid strewn schoolbags and blood stains[…]
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