Al Jazeera Islamabad, Pakistan – A suicide bomber has killed at least seven police officers and wounded 22 others in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. The attack targeted a truck carrying police personnel on the city’s main Saryab road on Wednesday morning, local police official Muhammad Akbar told Al Jazeera. Provincial home minister Sarfaraz Bugti, speaking to media at the… Read more »
France 24 UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a “hell on earth” in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The U.N. children’s agency has issued a report that documents the plight of children who account for 58 percent of the refugees who have… Read more »
Peaceful protest seems to be a common theme in India; back in the 1930’s, Ghandi led a group of peaceful protesters for miles across India and today we see farmers digging holes and sitting in them for hours on end in order to get their demands met. India’s Constitution gives its citizens similar fundamental rights to those we possess in… Read more »
France 24 Three Kashmiri rebels and two Indian soldiers have been killed in a fierce gunbattle in the disputed Himalayan region, police said Sunday. The fighting erupted Saturday after Indian troops raided southern Awneera village on a tip that at least seven rebels fighting New Delhi’s rule over Kashmirwere hiding there, said top police officer S.P. Vaid.
BBC Gulnara Karimova, the once-powerful daughter of late Uzbek ex-President Islam Karimov, has been in detention since a corruption conviction in 2015, officials have confirmed. Ms Karimova, 45, was tipped to succeed her father, who died last year, until she fell out with her family in 2014. The prosecutor-general’s office said “a five-year restriction of liberty order” was imposed nearly… Read more »
From: Al Jazeera Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – Eighteen-year-old Rohingya refugee Amir Mia is carrying his deceased grandfather’s body through the Balukhali expansion camp in the Bangladeshi port city of Cox’s Bazar. He is taking his grandfather to be buried in a graveyard that was created after the recent influx of Rohingya refugees, fleeing violence by the Myanmar army that the UN has described as ethnic cleansing, began on August… Read more »
From: BBC A United Nations expert has urged Iran’s government to stop harassing BBC Persian staff and their families. David Kaye, the special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, confirmed he had received a complaint from the BBC about their treatment. It came after Iran initiated a criminal investigation into 150 BBC staff, former staff and contributors for “conspiracy… Read more »
Source: France24 The death toll in an ongoing suicide and gun attack on a police training centre in a southeast Afghan city has risen to 32 with more than 200 wounded, a hospital official said Tuesday. “The hospital is overwhelmed and we call on people to donate blood,” said Shir Mohammad Karimi, deputy health director in Gardez, the capital of… Read more »
Source: France 24 For more than three weeks now, scores of Indian farmers have spent their days neck-deep in the ground in Nindar village, outside Jaipur in Rajasthan state. They have half-buried themselves to protest the state government’s plans to take over 540 acres of land belonging mostly to farmers. The land is slated for a massive housing project as… Read more »
In 2009, India and the EU signed a civil nuclear agreement. Since then, this agree has essentially been, “mothballed.” The topic of this agreement is now resurfacing. The purpose of this agreement was to contribute to collaborative research in the nuclear field. The main goals of this agreement was to maintain energy security and regulate clean energy. Since 2009, nuclear… Read more »