Friday, July 15, 2011
Two Burmese government military aircraft on Wednesday dropped bombs onto a joint force of Shan State Army-South (SSA-South) and Shan State Army-North (SSA-North), according to Major Sai Lao Hseng, the spokesman of the SSA-S. The information could not be confirmed by outside sources.
He said the bombing took place when government troops on Wansai Hill were under attack by SSA troops near Wankaipha village in Mong Yai Township in northeastern Shan State.
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Terrorists killed 13 soldiers and wounded seven others in an ambush that marked the worst attack since the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ended a cease-fire in February.
The state-run Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday that two of the wounded soldiers are in critical condition. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan immediately called a meeting in Ankara with army and intelligence chiefs as well as the interior minister and the head of the paramilitary gendarmerie.
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The Sudanese government and a Darfur rebel group, the Liberation and Justice Movement, have signed a peace accord in the Qatari capital Doha, in the absence of key rebel factions.
Those that boycotted Thursday’s ceremony include the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudan Liberation Army (SLM).
Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s President, and leaders of Chad, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Eritrea and Qatar attended the signing of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur on Thursday.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
At least 20 people have been killed and 113 others injured in three bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai on Wednesday evening in the crowded Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri Bazar areas. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan confirmed that the deaths reported include casualties from all the three locations hit by the blasts.
Union Home Ministry confirmed that the blasts are terror strikes and added that Improvised Explosive Devices were used at all the three locations.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Thousands fled the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday and the local university was shut after a week of intensified clashes between an Islamist sect and military forces.
The Boko Haram sect, which says it wants a wider application of sharia Islamic law across Africa’s most populous nation, has claimed responsibility for the killings of police officers and attacks with homemade explosives on churches and drinking places in recent months.
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