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Russian-backed militants launched 15 attacks on positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in ATO area in Donbass in last day.
This is reported by the ATO press center.
“Over the past day, illegal armed groups violated the ceasefire 15 times. The Ukrainian Armed Forces opened fire on the enemy 10 times. As a result of the fighting, one Ukrainian soldier was wounded,” the statement reads.
Another new rebel group has been formed to fight against the regime of South Sudan President Salva Kiir.
The formation of the National Resistance Front/Army (NRF/A) was reportedly agreed upon communiqué after a meeting held by all South Sudan opposition groups from September to October 2017.
Extremists attacked a Mogadishu hotel Saturday with a car bomb, a suicide vest, grenades and firearms, killing at least 23 people, including a baby, wounding more than 30 and trapping dozens of people on the building’s upper floors.
The attack on the Nasa-Hablod hotel, near the presidential palace, appeared to have devolved into an ongoing battle between militants and government security forces Saturday night.
The parliament of Catalonia has voted to declare independence from Spain.
Seventy legislators voted in favour, 10 voted against, while two cast blank ballots.
The decision was made during a secret vote in Barcelona on Friday afternoon.
Indian police sources said Thursday that at least three Maoists were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Rajnandgaon district of central India’s Chhattisgarh state.
An intense encounter erupted between the Maoists and Indian security forces as the latter launched an anti-insurgency operation in the Kopenkadka village of Rajnandgaon district in the Maoist-hit Chhattisgarh state, Indio Asian News Agency said quoting local police sources.