A suicide bomber has rammed a truck into a German consulate in Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians and wounding 120, officials said. Gunman attacked the building after the blast, in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, battling with German and Afghan forces. The Taliban said it carried out the attack in ... Read More »
Supermarket giant Tesco has suspended some parts of its online banking system after it detected attempts to steal cash from customers’ accounts. It said it spotted “suspicious transactions” on 40,000 accounts over the weekend, with money reportedly taken from about half of them. Tesco has declined to elaborate on what ... Read More »
Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing 61 people, mostly police cadets and recruits, and waging a ferocious gunbattle with troops that lasted into early hours Tuesday. The four-hour siege is one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistan’s security forces ... Read More »
Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under sustained cyber attack. The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its ... Read More »
Condemning the “cowardly” terror attack on an Army camp in Uri, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday assured the nation that those behind the “despicable” strike won’t go unpunished. He saluted the soldiers who were martyred in the attack and said their service to the nation will always be remembered. ... Read More »
Seventeen soldiers were killed in a militant attack in Uri area of Baramulla district on Sunday morning. Police sources said that fidayeen militants stormed an Army camp in Uri near the Line of Control (LoC) around 4 a.m. Four militants were killed in the encounter. “A group of heavily armed ... Read More »
JOHANNESBURG – KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has expressed horror and disgust at the hijacking of three senior female nurses in Empangeni. The trio were hijacked, robbed and abandoned in the bush while on their way from an outreach programme last week. It’s understood their bus was stopped by ... Read More »
A 27-year-old Swiss man set fire to a train and attacked passengers with a knife in northeastern Switzerland on Saturday, injuring six, including a six-year-old child, police said. The motive for the attack is unclear and has left several of the injured in serious condition, suffering from stab wounds and ... Read More »
Six people were injured in an attack aboard a Swiss train on Saturday by a man armed with a knife and flammable fluid, St Gallen cantonal police said. Three adults, two teenagers and a child aged six were hurt, according to a police statement. Five were stabbed or burned. A ... Read More »
Two to four Bodo militants travelling in an auto-rickshaw opened fire and killed 13 people and left 14 others wounded in the busy Friday market of Kokrajhar in Assam on August 5. Indian Army, paramilitary forces and the police are jointly carrying out search operations to apprehend the other militants, ... Read More »
A gunman opened fire on a crowded market in India’s northeastern Assam state Friday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 20, authorities said. Security forces suspect the attack was carried out by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, which have been fighting for a separate state for the region’s ... Read More »
One of the Dalits who had consumed poisonous substance during Dalit protests in Rajkot against Una flogging died on Sunday morning at Ahmedabad civil hospital. Yogeshbhai Sarikhada, the 23-year-old Dalit, belonged to the Anusuchit Jati Vas in Moti Parabadi district of Rajkot. Sarikhada succumbed in Ahmedabad Civil hospital where he had ... Read More »
