The death toll from twin bombings in Somalia rises to 100

The death toll in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday. “So far, the number of dead has reached 100 and 300 wounded, and the number of both dead and wounded continues to rise,” he said after visiting […]

Car bombs in Somalia kill at least nine people

At least nine people, including children, died in two car bomb attacks on the Somalia Ministry of Education in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, security officials and witnesses said. Two cars loaded with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe intersection, followed by gunfire. “I was one of the first security officers to […]

At least four dead in attack on hotel in southern Somalia

At least four people were killed in an attack on a hotel in Kismayo in southern Somalia, al-Shabaab Islamists, police and a witness said on Sunday. The port city is the latest to be hit in recent months by bloody attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked group, which has mainly targeted the capital Mogadishu and central Somalia. […]

Palestinians shot and Israelis stabbed to death in Jerusalem

Soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, hours after an Israeli man was left in serious condition in a knife attack in east Jerusalem. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Rabi Arafah Rabi, 32, was hit by “a bullet in the head” at a checkpoint southeast of the city of Qalqilya. […]

The Iranian was hailed as a hero after competing without a headscarf

An Iranian mountaineer who caused a stir by taking part in an event abroad without wearing a headscarf was greeted as a heroine on her return to Tehran on Wednesday by supporters who applauded her action enthusiastically. While Iran was still reeling from women-led protests over the death of Mahsa Amini a month ago, Elnaz […]

Families mourn death of Thailand kindergarten ahead of King’s visit

Weeping, grieving families gathered outside a Thai kindergarten on Friday where a former police officer murdered nearly two dozen children in one of the kingdom’s worst mass killings. Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha will later visit survivors of the attack that killed at least 37 people, including the attacker’s wife and […]