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At least 15 killed as explosions rock Afghanistan mosque
One man detonated explosives while about 60 worshippers were praying, a witness said, while the other man reportedly opened fire. It is noted that during the explosion, the mosque was filled with attending the weekly prayer. Last month an IS suicide bomber blew himself up near Kabul worldwide airport, killing 23 people including AFP driver Mohammad Akhtar . Turkey on Friday condemned the ... [Full Article...]
Quake strikes Indonesia’s Lombok island; tsunami possible
Shanmugam. East and north Bali felt tremors, but so far there have been no travel restrictions put own by the Foreign Office. An alert issued by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics said the 7.0-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 15km (9.3 miles) at 19:45pm local time, according to the Mirror . [Full Article...]
Major natural disaster rocks Lombok island
Lombok Island was hit hard by a 6.4 magnitude natural disaster last Sunday which killed 16 people and injured another 162. Lombok, about 40km (25 miles) east of Bali, attracts tourists from around the world to its beaches and hiking trails. [Full Article...]
Three foreigners kidnapped and killed in Kabul
Rahimi said the three were men and belonged to Sodexo, one of the world's leading food and catering services. According to police officer Jan Aga, the three worked as cooks at the Kabul airport and were of Indian, Malaysian and Macedonian nationality. [Full Article...]
Family of four killed in small plane crash in Swiss forest
Among those killed were 17 people from Switzerland and a three-person family from Austria, police said. The vintage aircraft crashed into the Piz Segnas mountain in the Flims resort on Saturday. It was not clear how many people were on the plane. The plane that crashed was a Junker JU-52 (affectionately known as "Tante Ju" or "Auntie Ju" in German), owned and operated by the JU-AIR company bas... [Full Article...]
USA court orders Trump administration to fully reinstate DACA program
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration must fully restore a program that protects from deportation some young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children, including accepting new applications for the program. [Full Article...]
Imran Khan May Take Prime Minister Oath On August 14
The spokesperson for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Fawad Chaudhry said, on Wednesday, that known Indian personalities like Aamir Khan and former cricketers - Kapil Dev, Navjot Singh Sidhu, and Sunil Gavaskar - were invited to the ceremony. The former worldwide cricketer, who is all set to take over the country in the next few days, expressed the remarks in his first meeting with British officials after... [Full Article...]
Vocal critic of China's government disappears in middle of phone interview
Is this wrong? So many Chinese are still poor and we shouldn't throw our money in Africa". During the Cultural Revolution, Sun was detained twice for "counterrevolutionary speech", according to Human Rights Watch , which granted him a free speech award in 2012. [Full Article...]