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11 including 4 attackers killed in Kabul attack, 3 suspects held
The attack on the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) here on Saturday left at least 11 people, including four assailants, dead after attackers armed with guns and grenades stormed the building.Out of the deceased, four are civilians, three are security force members and four are attackers, according to Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs. Three suspects were also arrested by the authorities, while eight people were also wounded.The attack, the responsibility for which has not been claimed by any group yet, lasted for about five hours on Saturday.During the siege, the Afghan Special Forces rescued 2,800 employees and visitors from the government building and the nearby Ministry of Information and Culture building, according to Xinhua.All the shops were shut down in the business hub of the city due to the attack, which caused widespread panic amongst the civilians.
UN: 220 killed in battles for Libya's capital last 2 weeks
Fighting between rival Libyan forces for control of Tripoli escalated in the past couple of days, a spokesman for the self-styled Libyan National Army said Saturday, as the death toll rose to at least 220, including combatants and civilians, since the LNA declared a major military offensive to take the capital earlier this month. Fighting erupted April 5 pitting the LNA, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter and aligned with a rival government in the east, against militias affiliated with Tripoli's U.N.-supported government. Ahmed al-Mesmari, LNA spokesman, told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that heavy clashes have been underway between his forces and rival militias in the towns of Swany and al-Aziziya, south of Tripoli, which Hifter's forces seized earlier this month. He said militias allied with the U.N.-supported government launched airstrikes on the Alwatya air base, southwest of Tripoli. There were also airstrikes on the town of Gherian, he said. Residents in ...
Police: 'New breed' of terrorists in Northern Ireland
Police in Northern Ireland arrested two teenagers Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting of a young journalist during rioting in the city of Londonderry and warned of a "new breed" of terrorists threatening the peace. The men, aged 18 and 19, were detained under anti-terrorism legislation and taken to Belfast for questioning, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. The men have not been identified or charged. Authorities believe one man pulled the trigger during the chaotic rioting that began Thursday night but had organizational support. Lyra McKee, 29, a rising star of investigative journalism, was shot and killed, police say probably by a stray bullet aimed at police, during the rioting. Police said the New IRA dissident group was most likely responsible and called it a "terrorist act." The use of a firearm apparently aimed at police marks a dangerous escalation in sporadic violence that continues to plague Northern Ireland 21 years after the Good Friday peace ...
Afghan official: Blast rocks country's capital, kills 7
A suicide blast rocked Afghanistan's capital Saturday during a gun battle with security forces, officials said, killing at least seven people a day after hopes for all-encompassing peace talks collapsed. At least eight people were wounded. Police chief Gen. Sayed Mohammad Roshandil said the bomber blew himself up outside the Telecommunications Ministry, clearing the way for four gunmen to enter the building and the heavily guarded government compound in central Kabul. Nasart Rahimi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said four civilians and three soldiers were killed during the attack. Eight civilians were wounded, he said. Wahidullah Mayar, spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, said the wounded people were evacuated to hospitals, three of them women. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Both Taliban insurgents and the Islamic State group are active in eastern Afghanistan and have previously claimed attacks in Kabul. The Taliban denied involvement. Rahimi .
Yellow Vest protesters attack police with excreta-like substance
Police on Saturday had to resort to using tear gas after they were attacked by the Yellow Vest protesters with an excreta-like substance here as the demonstrations entered their 23rd continuous week.Protesters were asked to stay away from the Notre Dame cathedral in the wake of the devastating fire which struck the iconic landmark on April 15.Demonstrators donning yellow vests have been taking to the streets across France continuously since November 17 last year. They initially protested against the proposed rise in fuel prices, which were scrapped by French President Emmanuel Macron in a bid to quell protests.Around 60,000 police officers and gendarmes have been deployed to maintain peace during the protests, according to Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner. Meanwhile, Sputnik reports that at least 70 protesters have been arrested in Saturday's protests.Aside from attacking the police with the substance, a few demonstrators also lit garbage on fire in Paris during their ...
Without ration for 20 days, Bru refugees threaten to loot food
Going without ration for 20 days, an organisation of the Bru refugees living in relief camps in Tripura Saturday threatened to loot a government godown. The Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) expressed concern at the delay of supply of ration to the relief camps for the last 20 days, while it should have reached them by the fifth of this month. Officials said officials formalities led to the delay. The camp inmates receive Rs 5 per day to each adult, Rs 2.5 to each minor, 600 gram of rice to each adult on a daily basis, three soaps in a year, one pair of slippers every year and a mosquito net in every three years, they said. Around 35,000 Brus are sheltered in six camps in Kanchanpur sub-division in North Tripura district after they fled from neighbouring Mizoram in phases following ethnic clashes with the Mizos since 1997. MBDPF general secretary Bruno Msha and president A Sawibunga jointly wrote a letter to North Tripura District Magistrate C K Jamatiyat, ...
Anti-Haftar forces near Libya capital launch counter-attack
Forces loyal to Libya's unity government said Saturday they have launched a counter-attack against strongman Khalifa Haftar's fighters just south of the capital Tripoli. "We have launched a new phase of attack. Orders were given early this morning to advance and gain ground," said Mustafa al-Mejii, a spokesman for the Government of National Accord's forces. Haftar launched an offensive on April 4 against Tripoli, where the UN-recognised GNA is based. The military commander backs a rival administration based in eastern Libya that refuses to recognise the authority of the Tripoli government. Sustained rocket and shellfire could be heard in several districts of the capital on Saturday, after several days of less intense fighting and stalemate on the ground. "After coordination, our forces have launched vast attack operations," particularly on the Wadi Rabie, Sawani and Ain Zara fronts in the southern suburbs of the capital, said Rida Issa, another spokesman. The GNA's main military ...
Afghan official: Blast rocks country's capital, kills 2
A suicide blast rocked Afghanistan's capital Saturday during a gun battle with security forces, officials said, killing at least two people a day after hopes for all-encompassing peace talks collapsed. At least six people were wounded. Police chief Gen. Sayed Mohammad Roshandil said the bomber blew himself up outside the Telecommunications Ministry, clearing the way for the other attackers to enter the building and the heavily guarded government compound in central Kabul. Wahidullah Mayar, spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, said at least two people were killed in the attack and at least six wounded people were evacuated to hospitals, three of them women. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Both Taliban insurgents and the Islamic State group are active in eastern Afghanistan and have previously claimed attacks in Kabul. The Taliban denied involvement in the attack. Nasart Rahimi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the security operation ended at ...
Afghan Information Ministry attacked, 2 assailants killed (3rd Lead)
Three suicide bombers staged an assault on an 18-storey building housing the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology headquarters in the centre of the Afghan capital on Saturday. Two of the attackers were later killed by the security forces.
Will keep working to eliminate terrorism, fanaticism: Bhagwat
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that the organisation will continue to work for elimination of anti-national forces such as terrorism and fanaticism. Bhagwat took to Twitter Saturday to pay a tribute to RSS leader Chandrakant Sharma who died after being attacked by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on April 9. In a message on the RSS' Twitter account, Bhagwat said Sharma's death was very painful, but his sacrifice also inspires the Sangh. "In this time of sorrow, we resolve not to let go in vain the sacrifice committed by late Chandrakant-ji, (we)will work with more speed to remove anti-national forces such as terrorists and fundamentalists ("kattar-panthi") from this land," said Bhagwat. When contacted, a local RSS spokesperson could not explain why Bhagwat tweeted his tribute to Sharma Saturday.
New attack on Ebola center in Congo; 1 militia member killed
A Congolese official says militia members have attacked an Ebola treatment center hours after another attack killed a staffer with the World Health Organisation. Butembo city's deputy mayor, Patrick Kambale Tsiko, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the attackers armed with machetes tried to burn down the center in Katwa district overnight. Tsiko says military and police guarding the center killed one militia member and detained five others. An attack on Friday on a hospital in Butembo killed an epidemiologist from Cameroon who had been deployed to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo. Tsiko cited witnesses as saying the attackers wrongly blamed foreigners for bringing the deadly virus to the region. This Ebola outbreak is the second-deadliest in history. Rebel attacks and community resistance have greatly complicated containment efforts.
Kabul attack over, assailants killed: Afghan ministry
Afghan authorities declared Saturday the end of an hours-long, multi-pronged assault by suicide bombers and gunmen at the communications ministry in Kabul. "Operations finished. All suicide bombers killed & more than 2000 civilians staff rescued," the Minstry of Interior said on Twitter. The attack had started about six hours earlier at a postal facility by the ministry, officials said, in a busy area in downtown Kabul.
Explosion, gunfire in attack on Afghan Information Ministry (2nd Lead)
An explosion and gunfire was heard in the centre of the Afghan capital on Saturday as unidentified attackers targeted the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology headquarters where they were battling security forces, officials said.
Saudi coalition destroys Yemen rebels' drone cave
The Saudi-led coalition launched an air raid Saturday on a cave in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, used by Huthi rebels to stockpile drones, a spokesman said. The cave near the presidential palace in Huthi-held Sanaa contained drones to be used in "terrorist operations", Colonel Turki al-Maliki said. The "military target, a cave used by the terrorist Huthi militia to stockpile drones was destroyed," he said, in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. Earlier this month, the coalition said that Saudi air defences intercepted two drones launched by Huthi rebels from Yemen that targeted Khamis Mushait, home to a major airbase in the southwest of the kingdom. And in January the Huthis launched a drone attack on Yemen's largest airbase, Al-Anad, north of the southern port of Aden, during a military parade. Eleven people were wounded in the attack, including Yemen's deputy chief of staff Major General Saleh al-Zandani who later died of his injuries. Seven other loyalists -- ...
Paris: Yellow vest anger mixes with Notre Dame mourning
French yellow vest protesters marched a new Saturday to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn't the only problem the nation needs to solve. Security was extra-high in Paris as authorities braced for resurgent yellow vest anger, and Paris police said some 70 people were detained by mid-morning. Multiple protest events are being held around Paris and other cities Saturday for the 23rd weekend of the yellow vest movement against wealth inequality and President Emmanuel Macron's leadership. One group of about 200 people tried to march on the president's Elysee Palace in central Paris, but riot police blocked them at the neo-classical Madeleine Church. Another group gathered around the Finance Ministry in eastern Paris to demand lower taxes on workers and pensioners and higher taxes on the rich. Yet another group is trying to demonstrate yellow vest mourning over the Notre Dame blaze while also keeping up pressure on Macron. The group wanted to ...
Sec 144 imposed in Pudukottai dist after violence over audio
Prohibitory orders were clamped in parts of the district that witnessed violence after an audio clip containing alleged derogatory remarks about a community went viral, police said Saturday. Nearly 1,500 police personnel have been deployed in Ponamaravathy area, where violence was reported and regulatory orders under CrPc section 144 had been promulgated to restore normalcy, they said adding situation in the area was being closely monitored. Meanwhile, District Collector Uma Maheswari Saturday ordered closure of liquor shops in the district. In the audio clip, two men are purportedly heard making derogatory comments against the community. Several vehicles, including government buses and shops were damaged in violent incidents over the past two days, they said. Thirteen people, including three policemen were injured when a group of villagers belonging to the community indulged in stone-pelting in Ponamaravathi on Friday. Earlier, the agitators laid siege to the police ...
Stones hurled at building, vehicles during religious rally
: Mild tension prevailed in Nizamabad town after members of a community allegedly threw stones at a commercial building and two vehicles, police said Saturday. The incident happened Friday when a religious procession was passing through a locality, when rumours spread that somebody had hurled stones on the rallyists, a senior police official told PTI. The rumours prompted some people in the procession to stone the commercial building and the vehicles' windowpanes, he said. A video in the social media purportedly showed scores of people indulging in throwing stones on a building, and raising slogans. The situation is now peaceful and additional police forces have been deployed and three cases in connection with the stone-hurling incident have been registered, the official said. The accused have been identified and efforts on to nab them, the senior police official added.
IAC Vikrant to be delivered by 2021, says Navy Chief
Admiral Sunil Lanba, Chief of the Naval Staff, on Saturday informed that India's first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, (IAC) Vikrant, will be delivered to the Indian Navy by 2021.The chief said: " India's first Indian Aircraft Carrier IAC Vikrant is undergoing outfitting at Kochi shipyard Ltd. Harbour acceptance trials are in progress and sea acceptance trial of this will commence in the latter half of this year."He further said that "The Aircraft Carrier will be delivered to Navy by the year 2021."INS Vikrant, also known as Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 1 (IAC-1), is the first aircraft carrier to be built in India for the Navy.
2 teens held over Northern Ireland journalist murder
Northern Ireland police have arrested two teenagers in the killing of 29-year-old investigative journalist Lyra McKee, authorities said on Saturday.
13 people shot dead at family party in Mexico
Thirteen people, including a child, were shot dead at a family party in the Mexican state of Veracruz by unidentified armed assailants, authorities said.