Gunmen kill eight Hazara miners in Afghanistan
Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan’s Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said.
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Pakistan claims it has fired first ‘submarine-launched nuclear-capable missile’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan fired its first submarine-launched cruise missile on Monday, the military said, a show of force for a country that sees its missile development as a deterrent against arch-foe India.
UN sacks peace observers in Colombia for dancing with FARC rebels
The United Nations said Thursday it has sacked four members of its monitoring mission for the Colombian peace process for dancing with FARC rebels at a New Year’s Eve party. The UN is overseeing the FARC’s disarmament as part of a peace deal the leftist guerrillas signed with the government to end a more than five-decade conflict. But controversy erupted… Read more »
More inmates beheaded in Brazil as prison riots continue
Jailed members of Brazil’s most powerful drug gang killed 31 inmates at a penitentiary on Friday, decapitating and cutting out the hearts of most of them, in revenge for a separate prison massacre that left 56 dead this week. The bloodletting in the Monte Cristo prison in the Amazonian state of Roraima, carried out by members of the First Capital… Read more »