MOSCOW: Russia said Sunday that its forces had carried out strikes against three military training centres in northern and western Ukraine, including one near the Polish border, just days before a NATO summit. The bombings were carried out with “high-precision weapons of Russia’s aerospace forces and Kalibr missiles,” Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said […]
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At least 64 killed in Ethiopian air strike on Tigray market
At least 64 people were killed and 180 injured in an Ethiopian air strike on a market in the war-torn Tigray region, a local health officer told AFP Thursday. “The air strike was in the market area, so many, many people were injured,” said Mulu Atsbaha, an advisor to the Tigray regional administration on maternal […]
Calls for inquiry as dozens killed, injured, in Ethiopia market airstrike
An airstrike on a busy market killed or wounded dozens in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, survivors and emergency workers said Wednesday, as a seven-month-old conflict surged again. Families rushed to a hospital in the regional capital Mekele as the casualties, including many children, arrived from nearby Togoga, where witnesses and medical personnel said a busy […]
Who is to benefit from Sri Lanka bombings?
On 21 April 19, eight bombing attacks struck at least three churches in Sri Lanka, along with three five-star hotels favoured by foreigners, killing 321 including more than 32 foreigners and at least 500 injured. Suicide bombers detonated their explosives during Easter services at St. Anthony’s Shrine (a historic church in Colombo), St. Sebastian’s Church […]
Female singers pushing boundaries in changing Afghanistan
Soria Hussaini was not sure what would happen when she decided to perform the first Kabul street concert by a woman in recent memory. The 20-year-old, whose family fled civil war in Afghanistan for Iran during the 1990s, worried about her safety. But nearly 50 people watched the unadvertised concert by Hussaini’s rock group, Azadi, […]