Thursday, March 19, 2015
A senior government official says warplanes targeted the palace of embattled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in the southern city of Aden.
The official, who is one of Hadi’s aides, told The Associated Press that Hadi was in not in the palace at the time of Thursday’s strikes and has been moved to a “safe location.”
The warplanes were flown by forces loyal to Shiite Houthi rebels and their ally, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the official said. He said three strikes were carried out but did not damage the palace, hitting in nearby mountains and the sea.
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Rebels in Myanmar’s Kokang region say fighting has intensified in the area since the military launched a large scale offensive against rebel positions this week.
Tun Myat Lin, a spokesman for the Kokang rebels, told VOA’s Burmese service the government is treating the offensive like it is handling a foreign invasion.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini blamed Islamic State on Wednesday for an attack on tourists in Tunisia that killed 19 people, including 17 foreign tourists.
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At least seven foreigners and a Tunisian national were killed in a shooting attack at the country’s leading museum Wednesday, the country’s Interior ministry said.
Government spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on the private Radio Mosaique FM station that only one of the dead was a Tunisian, and did not provide nationalities for the others, the Associated Press reported.
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Iraq’s huge offensive to retake Tikrit from the Islamic State group was stalled on Tuesday by a slew of bombs and the several hundred jihadists holding out in the city.
While Iraqi troops and militia were able to surround the jihadists in Tikrit with relative ease, ousting them from the city’s streets has proved far harder.
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