ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has sent an official to Kabul to review the findings of its investigation into a suicide bombing in March that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver from Afghanistan’s Taliban government, the State Department said Thursday. Pakistan says the attack was planned in Afghanistan and that the bomber was an […]
A landmark public inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses by British forces in Kenya has heard ‘heartbreaking’ testimony from those who say they were abused. Dozens of people this week gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into the alleged misconduct of soldiers from the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk). They include the family
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A spokesman for the Pakistani government in Kashmir said there were no reports of cell towers destroyed during protests that rocked the region in May 2024, contrary to reports on Facebook and X that claimed to show photos of the damaged buildings. The images – taken before the protests – show telephone towers attacked in
On Tuesday, Harvard officials announced that the university would take a formal position of ideological neutrality on political events and other controversial issues. The decision comes after months of tumultuous protests on campus over the war between Israel and Hamas. Earlier this month, a working group led by the faculty took place published a report
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Trains in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires came to a standstill on Thursday, doubling passenger journey times, according to union railway workers who staged an unusual protest demanding better wages after talks with company officials failed to resolve the situation. The railway workers’ union La Fraternidad (the Brotherhood) said it had decided
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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced a new German arms package worth 500 million euros to support Ukraine during a visit to the port city of Odessa. He met with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to discuss Kiev’s military needs. “We will continue to support you in this defensive campaign,” Pistorius said during a meeting
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is asking the alliance’s member states to make longer-term commitments to Ukraine by guaranteeing that they will at least maintain, if not increase, their current levels of support in the coming years. Stoltenberg estimates the total value of allied aid over the past two years at 80 billion euros –
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Billions of dollars worth of gold are smuggled out of Africa every year, with most of it ending up in the United Arab Emirates, where it is refined and sold to customers around the world, according to a report published Thursday. More than $30 billion worth of gold, or more than
A 16-year-old was injured and two people were arrested after at least 75 gunshots were fired in a northeast Columbia neighborhood Tuesday evening, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Thursday. About 80 youths met in parking lots near a community pool in the Villages at Lakeshore community before multiple gunmen “indiscriminately” fired weapons, including automatic
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According to NATO, NATO members have less than 5% of the air defense needed to protect Central and Eastern Europe FT. A NATO official said their air defense stocks “have been reduced.” Putin hinted on Tuesday that he might attack NATO members who call for Ukrainian attacks on Russia. Central and Eastern European countries could
