7 killed in Iraq attacks
Shootings and a bombing killed seven people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki condemned attacks on mosques he said were aimed at promoting sectarian strife.
Shootings and a bombing killed seven people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki condemned attacks on mosques he said were aimed at promoting sectarian strife.
At least 30 people were injured, three seriously, in a suspected bomb attack Sunday at a packed new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.
Five car bombs on Monday killed 18 people south of Baghdad, the latest deaths in a week of violence, as Iraq’s parliament speaker called for the government to resign to ease spiraling tensions.
Communist rebels are raking in millions of pesos extorting money from candidates in next month’s elections and will likely use their loot to buy guns, a senior military officer said Sunday.
Three bomb explosions killed three people including a young girl in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Saturday, police and hospital officials said, in the latest violence ahead of polls next month.
Emotions ran high in four Lanao del Norte towns and three in Lanao del Sur as relatives on Saturday buried 12 persons who were killed when armed men ambushed the campaign team of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan on Thursday.
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.
The Philippines deployed hundreds of extra troops as it vowed Wednesday to protect candidates for next month’s mid-term elections after communist guerillas ramped up armed attacks.
A car bomb aimed at a Pakistani Shiite politician missed him but killed four other people Tuesday, hours after police defused an explosives-laden vehicle near the house where ex-leader Pervez Musharraf is being held, in the latest signs of simmering unrest in the country.
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.
A car bomb hit France’s embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.
Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected Islamist insurgents has killed 187 people, including scores of civilians, while massive blazes left nearly half the town destroyed, the Red Cross said Monday.
President Aquino on Monday ordered the police and the military to dismantle New People’s Army (NPA) checkpoints and protect politicians campaigning in areas controlled by the communist insurgents.
