118 killed in two days of Iraq violence—officials
Two days of violence in Iraq have killed 118 people, 99 of them in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their supporters, officials said on Wednesday.
Two days of violence in Iraq have killed 118 people, 99 of them in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their supporters, officials said on Wednesday.
A wave of clashes and attacks involving Iraqi security forces, protesters and their supporters on Tuesday left 53 people dead and prompted two Sunni ministers to quit, sending tensions soaring.
Tens of thousands of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) members also converged in the cities of Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu and Bacolod, San Jose town in Tarlac, Ilagan town in Isabela, and Pili town in Camarines Sur, for the Grand Evangelical Mission which was held simultaneously with the Luneta event.
President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday shrugged off suggestions that the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) was sending a subtle political message to him amid a determined Malacañang drive to oust Chief Justice Renato Corona as an obstacle to the administration’s reform program.
In a show of force amid perceived tension with their once staunch ally President Benigno Aquino III, some 600,000 members of the politically influential Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) gathered for a prayer rally Tuesday at Rizal Park in Manila.
Thousands of cars filled Moscow’s ring road Sunday in a protest demanding free elections and slamming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s bid to regain his Kremlin job in March polls.
