Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to use Google Maps to help settle a border dispute that led to deadly clashes last week, officials from both sides said on Tuesday. At least eight civilians were killed on both sides in fighting that began when a Pakistani census team accompanied by soldiers visited disputed villages along the southern border on Friday. Pakistan inherited […]
» Read moreAt least 35 people were killed, most of them young children, after a bus carrying students lost control and crashed in northern Tanzania, police said on Saturday. The bus had been carrying the students from a primary school in Arusha for an examination, Arusha Region Police Commander Charles Mkumbo said. It skidded off the road near the Mlera river in […]
» Read moreNine Malian soldiers were killed and five wounded in an area regularly targeted by Jihadist groups, as the commander of France’s counter-terrorism force for the region said an operation on the Burkina Faso border was ongoing. “A supply mission for the national armed forces fell into an ambush between Dogofri and Nampala. The initial toll is nine dead and five […]
» Read moreA large explosion hit the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses said, but there was no immediate word on any casualties or damage. The cause of the blast was also not immediately clear, although a security official said it hit an area not far from the U.S. embassy and a compound used by the NATO-led Resolute […]
» Read moreNepal’s first female Supreme Court chief justice was suspended after an impeachment motion was filed in parliament accusing her of bias and interfering with executive powers. Sushila Karki, who had one of the highest positions ever held by a woman in Nepal, was suspended automatically after the motion signed by nearly half the members in parliament was registered, Supreme Court […]
» Read moreA suspect, who the Belgian authorities had flagged to their French counterparts over possible involvement in Thursday’s Paris shootings, turned himself in to police in Belgium’s northern city of Antwerp, news agency Belga said on Friday. Speaking on France’s Europe 1 radio after the shootout on the Champs Elysees shopping street, French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said a second […]
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