Category: Asia and Oceania
At least seven Afghan policemen have been shot dead by their comrades in the war-ravaged country’s southern province of Kandahar. The incident took place on Thursday morning, when three members of the Afghan Local Police ...
A bomb blast has occurred in the center of the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing at least 27 people and injuring 75 more, the governor’s office said. The explosion took place near the Guven park ...
Turkey has released two prominent journalists after the country’s top court ruled that their detention had violated their rights. Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gul, the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, ...
At least 19 people have been killed and 200 injured in protests by India’s agricultural Jat community in support of caste-based quota systems, according to police. The violence in the north Indian state of Haryana ...
A bomb attack in the heart of the Turkish capital Ankara – apparently targeting the country’s military – has killed nearly 30 people and injured more than 60. It’s thought to have been caused by ...
The United Nations reported today that Afghan hostilities in 2015 left more than 3,500 civilians dead, including an unprecedented number of children – one in four casualties over the past year was a child – ...
A rebel Taliban infiltrated in the police of the volatile Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan has killed ten of his colleagues Tuesday in the second such attack in eight days, according to local authorities. The ...
A university in the northwest of Pakistan has come under attack by armed militants, and at least seven people have been killed, with a further 20 injured. It’s not yet clear how many of the ...
Turkish security forces have clashed with protesters in the mainly Kurdish south east of the country. The violence comes a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the Kurdistan Workers Party fighters would ...
Friends and supporters of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer have scuffled with police outside the courthouse where his trial is taking place in Beijing. « If we, as ordinary people in China, don’t speak out, ...
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