Death toll in Daesh attack on Kabul hospital jumps to 30
Author: By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH | APWed, 2017-03-08ID: 1489053827027172900 KABUL, Afghanistan: Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Daesh group. The attack on the 400-bed military facility, located near two civilian hospitals in Kabul’s […]
Women go on strike in US to show their economic clout
Author: ERRIN HAINES WHACK | APWed, 2017-03-08ID: 1489041429386328400 PHILADELPHIA: American women stayed home from work, zipped up their wallets, wore red and joined rallies across the country to demonstrate their economic clout Wednesday as part of International Women’s Day events around the globe. The Day Without a Woman protest in the US was put together by organizers […]
Russia deployed cruise missile in violation of treaty: US general
Author: Agence France PresseThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489018813455152000 WASHINGTON: Moscow has deployed a land-based cruise missile system that contravenes a 1987 US-Russia arms control treaty and poses a risk to the West, a top US general said Wednesday. General Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers that the missile system’s deployment “violates the […]
Trump tweet signals ongoing support for Guantanamo
Author: The Associated PressThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489004639140568000WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump appeared on Tuesday to reinforce his campaign support for the continued use of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, using an early morning tweet to discuss the facility, which his predecessor had vowed to close. The tweet decrying the release of Guantanamo detainees who returned to the battlefield was […]
Decried as Muslim ban, will the revised decree pass legal muster?
Author: AFPThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489004638930567400WASHINGTON: US attorneys general, civil liberties groups and others are already lining up to challenge President Donald Trump’s revised ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries.But can they succeed in overturning a measure that was deliberately crafted to remove the red flags raised by US courts over the first attempt? That […]
Wildfires in 4 states kill 6, force thousands from homes
Author: The Associated PressThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489004638840567100HUTCHINSON, Kan: Crews grappling with vexing wildfires that have charred hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed six people soon may get a bit of a break: Winds are forecast to ease from the gusts that have whipped the flames.Bill Bunting, forecast operations chief for the Oklahoma-based Storm […]
Indian police shoot dead gunman with suspected Daesh links
Author: AFPThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489003909210421600LUCKNOW: Indian police on Wednesday shot dead a suspected Daesh sympathizer who they said was involved in a train explosion that injured 10 people.Police said they ended a nearly 12-hour stand-off in the early hours by storming the house where the suspect, identified as Saifullah, was holed up in northern Uttar Pradesh state.“We had […]
China says first draft of South China Sea code of conduct ready
Author: REUTERSThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489003909130421300BEIJING: A first draft of a code of conduct for behavior in the disputed South China Sea has been completed, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, adding tension in the waterway had eased notably.Since 2010, China and the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been discussing […]
Pakistan gunfights kill 15 militants, two soldiers
Author: AFPThu, 2017-03-09ID: 1489003909070421000PESHAWAR: At least 15 militants and two soldiers have been killed in two separate gunbattles in a relatively peaceful district of Pakistan just northwest of the capital Islamabad, officials said Wednesday.The shootouts come after a recent resurgence in militant violence, with 130 people killed nationwide in the month of February, ending a lull in […]
Barcelona pull off the mother of all comebacks
Barcelona completed one of the most extraordinary comebacks in European football history to knock Paris St Germain out of the Champions League on Wednesday with a 6-1 victory that rewrote the record books.No team had ever overturned a four-goal deficit in a knockout tie, but Sergi Roberto’s stoppage-time goal completed a 6-5 aggregate win that […]
