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Sudan toppled Prez to appear in court soon
Sudan's toppled President Omar al-Bashir is expected to appear in court next week to face charges of corruption, announced acting prosecutor general on Sunday."The former president will appear in court next week following charges of corruption and possessing foreign currency," Al Jazeera quoted Al Waleed Sayed Ahmed as saying.After months of mass protest, the military overthrew and arrested al-Bashir. He was charged for inciting and participating in the killing of demonstrators.Prosecutors had also ordered his interrogation on suspicion of money laundering and financing terrorism.After Bashir's departure, the army formed Transition Military Council (TMC) to transfer power to a civilian government.People, however, are still on streets protesting against the army.In the aftermath of the military crackdown, a 'civil disobedience' movement was called by the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) to demand the civilian rule in the country.Sudanese doctors have claimed that more than 118 .
Vietnam border guard opens fire on colleagues before commiting suicide
A Vietnamese border guard open fire and injured three people at his patrol station before killing himself on Saturday, state media reported in the communist country where gun violence is extremely rare. Civilians are banned from owning guns in Vietnam, a one-party state where a vast police force and soldiers are among the few officials with access to weapons. On Saturday, a border guard in southern Long An province near Cambodia opened fire at his post injuring two colleagues and a local resident, according to the official Vietnam News Agency. The shooter holed himself up at the post in Binh Hiep commune before committing suicide, VNA said, identifying him as second lieutenant Ta Quang Dat. "Dat had shown recent signs of psychological disorder and he just returned from treatment," VNA reported. Some unverified media reports said one of the injured victims later died in hospital. Roads were blocked around the crime scene and local residents were evacuated from the area. A local ...
Diplomats: Europeans weigh sanctions on Venezuela's Maduro
The Associated Press has learned that major European nations are considering imposing sanctions on Venezuela's Nicols Maduro and several top officials for their recent crackdown on political opponents. Diplomats and members of the Venezuelan opposition said the sanctions being mulled may also target top members of the armed forces and judiciary who have been instrumental in the arrest of allies of opposition leader Juan Guaid. But the main obstacle to the plan is fear that it could derail ongoing international efforts to find a negotiated exit to the country's crisis. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss deliberations. Envoys sent by Maduro and Guaid have participated in two rounds of mediation efforts by Norway, but talks have slowed.
11 killed, 25 hurt as explosions rock Somalia's capital
A pair of explosions rocked Somalia's capital and left 11 people dead, the country's police chief said Saturday, as the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. Another 25 people were wounded, Gen Bashir Abdi Mohamed told reporters in Mogadishu. He said the first car bomb went off near a security checkpoint for the presidential palace and was responsible for nine deaths. The second car bomb killed the driver and his accomplice near a checkpoint on the road to the heavily fortified airport, he said. Al-Shabab, which often targets the capital, said the blasts were meant to strike the first line of security checkpoints for the airport and palace. The airport is home to a number of diplomatic offices. The palace is a frequent al-Shabab target. "I was at a short distance from the blast and I saw several people dead including two women, a passenger and two men, some of whom were elderly," witness Hussein Mohamed told the AP. "This is really very terrible." ...
TN police official tries to disperse mob, attacked
District Superintendent of Police V Baskaran was injured after a crowd threw stones him when he tried to hold peace talks and disperse them at a nearby village, police said Saturday. Baskaran suffered injuries near his eye and head and has been hospitalised, they said. Trouble began when a group people of Saruthupatti village blocked traffic on the highway here last night, demanding action against men belonging to Lakshmipuram for allegedly assaulting a man hailing from their area. When the district police chief arrived at the spot to hold peace talks and disperse the crowd, unidentified men hurled stones at him and personnel of the striking force. While Bhaskaran was injured near his eye and head, a couple of other personnel sustained similar injuries and were rushed to the medical college hospital here. The SP was shifted early today to Madurai and is now being treated at a private eye hospital, police said. Tension between the people of Saruthupatti and Lakshmipuram, ..
BSF-BGB conclude 48th DG level talks
India's Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday concluded their 48th DG level talks here on Saturday with the signing of Joint Record of Discussion between DG, BSF, Rajni Kant Mishra and DG, BGB, Major General Md Shafeenul Islam.According to an official statement, both sides agreed to undertake joint efforts to bring down the killing incidents to zero by increasing coordinated patrols in the areas vulnerable to cattle and narcotics smuggling, educating border population about the sanctity of International Border (IB) and preventing criminals from crossing the IB.During the meeting, Mishra said the BSF uses the policy of non-lethal weapon on the borders out of its concern for human rights in general and particularly lives of Bangladeshi nationals."BSF troopers use firearms in the rarest situations, when they are cornered by miscreants threatening the very lives of BSF troops," Mishra was quoted as saying."Preventing these crimes, one BSF trooper ...
Landmine blast kills 8 Kenyan police near Somali border
Eight Kenyan police officers were killed Saturday when their vehicle ran over a landmine during a patrol near the border with Somalia, police said. Police Inspector General Hilary Mutyambai said a landcruiser with 11 police on board "was hit by an improvised explosive device". He did not give a toll but a regional police source told AFP: "We lost eight police officers in this attack". They had been on patrol between Khorof-Harar and Konton in Wajir county on the border between Kenya and Somalia, Mutyambai added. Kenyan media had reported an attack on Konton Friday by Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgents who kidnapped three Kenyan police reservists. AFP has not been able to confirm the information. The patrol hit in Saturday's explosion was deployed in response to the reported incidents in Konton. In June last year, eight Kenyan police were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the same region. Wajir county and its neighbours Mandera and Garissa are frequently targeted in Shabaab attacks, ...
Maldives seeks foreign help to deal with IS fighters
The Maldives Saturday called for international help to rehabilitate up to 160 of its nationals languishing in Syrian detention camps after the defeat of the Islamic State group. Speaker Mohamed Nasheed said the Maldives kept a close tab on citizens who had joined the militant group, but that the island nation was not ready to accept them back without an internationally supervised reintegration programme. Visiting neighbouring Sri Lanka where 258 people were killed in jihadi attacks recently, Nasheed said the question of foreign IS fighters in Syria should be addressed as a global issue. As many as 160 Maldivians are thought to be held in detention camps after the fall of IS in March. "We do not know the situation they have gone through. We don't have the capacity to rehabilitate these people to the extent that they will not have a further impact on society," Nasheed said. "I think the international community should join together and decide what we should do to the returnees. ...
We fire only when situation turns ugly on border: BSF DG at Dhaka talks
Frontier guarding forces of India and Bangladesh Saturday decided to undertake joint efforts to reduce border killing incidents, as the BSF said it fires only when a situation turns "ugly" and lives of its troops are in danger. The 48th bi-annual Director General-level talks between the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) concluded in Dhaka and it was mutually decided to enhance cooperation to better check crime and smuggling of cattle and narcotics across the 4,096 km frontier shared by the neighbours, a senior BSF officer said. BSF chief Rajni Kant Mishra told the other side that an Indian soldier was killed while 39 were "grievously" injured in attacks by miscreants and criminals at this border in the last few months. Bangladesh, in the meeting, reiterated its concern over killing of its people on the border by the BSF, while the Indian force maintained that its aim is to stop crime and avoid casualty as far as possible. "Both sides agreed to ...
Car bomb kills eight in Somali capital: emergency services
A car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament Saturday, killing eight people, emergency workers said, hours after militia executed nine civilians from a clan with suspected links to the Islamist Al-Shabaab. "We have confirmed eight people killed and 16 others wounded in the blast," the private Aamin Ambulance service said. A second blast on a key road leading to the airport of the Somali capital Mogadishu did not cause any casualties. The Al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attacks saying they were "they were targeting two checkpoints, one of them along the airport road and (the other) along the road that leads to house of legislators." Abdulahi Mire, who witnessed the explosion near the parliament building said; ""I saw four dead bodies and four others wounded in the blast." Police sealed off the road and ambulances rushed to the scene, he added. Local shopkeeper Naimo Ali said the blast was "huge" and destroyed a part of her shop. "I saw several people strewn in the ...
Landmine blast kills 8 Kenyan police near Somali border: police
Eight Kenyan police officers were killed Saturday when their vehicle ran over a landmine during a patrol near the border with Somalia, police sources said. Police Inspector General Hilary Mutyambai said a landcruiser with 11 police on board "was hit by an improvised explosive device". He did not give a toll, but a regional police source told AFP: "we lost eight police officers in this attack".
2 Naxals surrender in Chhattisgarh's Sukma
Two Naxals, one of them carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, Saturday surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said. The duo, identified as Madkam Bheema (25) and Lekam Masa (30), both residents of Tongguda village in Sukma, turned themselves in at Chintalnar police station, Superintendent of Police Shalabh Sinha told PTI. While Bheema was a "commander" of the Chetna Natya Mandali, a cultural front outfit of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist), Masa was a member of the CNM, he said, adding that Bheema had a reward of Rs 1 lakh against his name. The two were involved in murder, attacks on police and planting explosives to target security forces, Sinha said.
DGP launches Nagaland Police website
Nagaland Police has setup a social media cell under IGP Range to deal with fake news, messages that incite social unrest, Director General of Police, T J Longkumer said Saturday. He said the Nagaland Police is attempting to go digital in lot of ways with a view to serve the public better. In the age of social media, police should be able to establish a system of cooperation with the public in order to maintain social harmony, said the DGP while launching the police website www.police.nagaland.gov.in on Saturday. As part of transparency, the website with interactive features will enable visitor's greater freedom of enquiry and satisfaction, he added. The Nagaland police also plan to have cyber cell in all the districts with proper infrastructure, he said. Earlier, the DGP flagged off a motorcycle squad (e- patrol) to assist the existing police machinery in the district.
12 police officers killed in Nigeria attack
At least 12 Kenyan police officers were on Saturday killed while another escaped with serious injuries after a vehicle they were travelling in was hit by improvised explosive device (IED) in Wajir county along the border with Somalia.
Hong Kong braces for huge rally after leader climbdown
Hong Kong is bracing for another mass rally Sunday as public anger seethes following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over a controversial extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city's embattled leader. Organisers are hoping for another mammoth turnout as they vowed to keep pressure on chief executive Carrie Lam, who suspended work on the hugely divisive bill Saturday after days of mounting pressure, saying she had misjudged the public mood. Critics fear the Beijing-backed law will tangle people up in China's notoriously opaque and politicised courts as well as hammer the city's reputation as a safe business hub. The international finance hub was rocked by the worst political violence since its 1997 handover to China on Wednesday as tens of thousands of protesters were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. Lam stopped short of committing to permanently scrapping the proposal and the concession was swiftly rejected by protest leaders, who .
Army organises ex-servicemen rally in Srinagar
Indian Army on Saturday organised a rally for ex-servicemen at Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) Centre in Srinagar.The aim of conducting this event was to make ex-servicemen and their families aware of the benefits of welfare schemes by the Indian Army.Around 700 ex-servicemen and their families participated in the rally.Army organises these rallies frequently to inform the veterans of the welfare schemes.
Nine civilians killed in Somalia revenge attack: Police
Nine civilians were executed by a local militia in war-torn Somalia after the killing of a policeman by the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, police said Saturday. The revenge attack on Friday just outside Galkayo -- one of the most developed cities in the centre of the country -- targeted the Rahanweyn clan, several of whose members are suspected of being Shabaab fighters. "This was a horrible incident, a gruesome killing against nine unarmed innocent civilians in southern Galkayo. All of the civilians belong to one clan and the gunmen shot them dead in one location a few minutes after suspected Shabaab gunmen killed" a policeman, Mohamed Abdirahman, a local police official said. "This is an unacceptable act and we will bring those perpetrators to justice," said Hussein Dini, a traditional elder. "Their killing cannot be justified. It seems that the merciless gunmen were retaliating for the security official who they believe was killed by Al-Shabaab gunmen belonging to the clan of .
Baramulla: Four held for exfiltration, handed back to families
Four youths, who were trying to exfiltrate the Line of Control in north Kashmir, were handed over to their families by Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday.They were apprehended in the Limber area of Boniyar in the Baramulla district on Friday, while trying to cross over the LoC to get arms training in Pakistan.The men were "on the path of violence" but now have been sent back to their kin, informed, Brigadier Girish Kalia, Commander of the 79 Mountain Brigade."I appeal to youth to not to get misguided by the propaganda of militants. Youth should choose the path of peace, not violence," Kalia told reporters in a press conference.The Commander added that the four Kashmiri youths were misguided by local militants and their accomplices.Acting swiftly to prevent them from choosing the wrong path, Army's 161 Territorial Army battalion, Baramulla police, and 53 battalion CRPF apprehended the young men.Commander Girish Kalia also informed that the youths were properly ...
14 militants killed in Afghan airstrike
At least 14 militants have been killed in an airstrike targeting Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan's Zabul province, the country's Army said in a statement on Saturday.
10 Kenyan police officers killed in blast near Somalia
Kenyan officials say at least 10 police officers are dead after their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near the Somali border in a suspected extremist attack. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to share the information, said those killed Saturday in Wajir County were among 13 officers who were pursuing extremists who had kidnapped police reservists. Police on Friday said an unknown number of gunmen stormed Konton center in Wajir East and kidnapped three reservists. There was no claim of responsibility for the latest attack. The Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group often targets Kenyan security forces, vowing retribution after Kenya deployed troops to Somalia in 2011 to combat the extremists.
