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Eight people were killed and three injured in a mass shooting in KwaZakhele, Gqeberha, on Sunday evening. Eastern Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene said the murders were “a blatant disregard for human life”. Police Minister Bheki Cele and national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola were expected to lead a delegation of crime experts […]

Seven people have been killed after air strikes destroyed a convoy of trucks carrying arms into eastern Syria from Iraq, a war monitor said Monday. The seven were “truck drivers and their assistants, all of them non-Syrians“, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that they were “killed as a result of unidentified aircraft […]

PESHAWAR:At least 32 people were martyred and more than 150 were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines during afternoon prayers on Monday, security and health officials said. Security officials, confirming that it was a suicide attack, said the bomber was standing in the front row at the time […]

Key developments on Jan. 29:  Wagner Group claims to have captured Blahodatne; Ukraine denies Russian progress near Bakhmut Ukrainian intelligence: Prigozhin doesn’t command Wagner Group’s military operations At least 3 killed, 6 wounded in Russian shelling of Kherson Ukrainian paratrooper Andriy (L), 47, and comrades wait for transport along the road in Chasiv Yar in […]

The sky over Somalia will become active after a 30-year hiatus following ICAO’s reclassification of airspace over the country and the surrounding region to Class A. Air traffic control services went live over Somalia at one minute past midnight on the dawn of January 26.  According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which said […]

1. Ukraine army says Blahodatne still standing, Wagner claims otherwise Ukraine’s military said on Sunday its forces repelled an attack in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region. In contrast, Russia’s Wagner private military group said it took control of the village. Ukrainian soldiers stand atop on APC before going […]

Mourners gathered at a Kyiv church on Sunday, Jan. 29, to honor Andrew Bagshaw, one of two British volunteers who died as they were evacuating civilians from fierce fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. An Orthodox priest serves for Andrew Bagshaw, 47, British voluntary worker, who was killed in Donetsk region, during the memorial service in […]

Over 300 Islamic clerics from Somalia and the diaspora have issued a fatwa denouncing religious extremism in all its forms and urged the public to support the ongoing Federal Government of Somalia (FGS)–led offensive against Al-Shabaab and other terror groups. The clerics issued the edict on Thursday in the capital, Mogadishu, after four days of […]

A13-year-old boy opened fire and wounded two people in east Jerusalem on Saturday, officials said, only hours after a gunman had killed seven outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in the city since 2008. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli security personnel work at a scene where a suspected incident of shooting attack took place, just […]

They don’t act like members of an elite unit operating not just Ukraine’s but the war’s most powerful ground weapon. In conversation, they mostly come off as typical Ukrainian soldiers. Ukrainian servicemen of an artillery unit reload as they fire towards Russian positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine on December 30, 2022. Sameer […]