Israeli forces shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian girl who tried to carry out a stabbing attack at a checkpoint between the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday, police said. Palestinian officials identified the dead girl as a resident of the Palestinian city of Ramallah. There have been sporadic Palestinian street attacks on Israelis since… Read More Israeli forces shoot dead knife-wielding Palestinian girl
Philippine authorities called for calm on Wednesday after a grenade attack on a mosque in a mainly Christian southern province killed two people, just three days after a devastating church bombing shook the restive Mindanao region. A grenade was thrown into a mosque during the night in Zamboanga, killing two people and wounding four others,… Read More Two dead, four injured following grenade attack on mosque in southern Philippines
Intel Corp will invest 40 billion shekels (an equivalent of $10.9 billion) on a new chip-making factory in Israel, the Israeli finance minister said on Monday, the latest multi-billion dollar investment in the country by the U.S. semiconductor giant. “Intel’s global management has informed us about its decision to invest another 40 billion shekels in… Read More Intel set to invest over $10billion on new chip plant in Israel
A rare tornado ripped through Havana late on Sunday, leaving at least four dead and nearly two hundred injured as it tore off roofs, flipped vehicles and reduced some of the buildings in its path to rubble. The twister was the strongest to hit Cuba in nearly 80 years, according to Jose Rubiera, a meteorologist… Read More Four dead, scores injured as strong tornado hits Cuba
One protester was killed and at least 10 others wounded when they stormed a Turkish military camp near Dohuk in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region on Saturday, burning two tanks and other vehicles, residents and Kurdish officials said. Najib Saeed, the chief health official in the area, said it was not yet clear what caused the… Read More One killed, ten injured as protesters attack Turkish military camp in Iraq
At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 7,000 forced to take refuge in emergency shelters after floods, landslides and a tornado battered the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in the past week, authorities said on Sunday. Rescue teams were still looking for seven missing people, while 47 had been injured during the devastation that… Read More Dozens dead, thousands displaced as floods, landslides hit Indonesian island of Sulawesi
The Philippines vowed to destroy those behind twin bombings that killed 20 people during a Sunday church service in the country’s restive south, six days after a referendum on autonomy for the mainly Muslim region returned an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote. The attack wounded 81 and was one of the deadliest in recent years in a… Read More Twenty dead, dozens injured following bomb attacks on church in southern Philippines
The Nigerian Air Force says its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed a terrorists’ hideout. It also reportedly neutralised some terrorists at Kaicungul, a settlement about 100km North-west of Monguno, in Northern Borno. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Ibikunle Daramola, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in… Read More Nigerian Air Force destroys hideout of insurgents in Borno State
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