• Three militants planning attack in Mombasa killed

    Oct 01
    <p>Kenyan police have killed three militants who they allege were plotting an attack on the coastal city of Mombasa on a national day of celebration.</p> <p>The police state they killed the suspects during a raid on their house in Majengo Mapya, a suburb in the city’s south and detained seven others.</p>
  • Suspected Mali war criminal will be brought to the ICC
    <p>International Criminal Court (ICC) judges said they would be bringing Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz, an accused war criminal from Mali, to trial.&nbsp;</p> <p>Abdoul Aziz acted as the de-facto chief of Islamic police in Timbuktu during a 2012-2013 militant takeover of the city.</p>
  • Seven Catalan activists arrested on charges of terrorism
    <p>Seven Catalan activists were arrested under charges that they belonged to a terrorist organisation and possessed explosives on Monday.</p>
  • Pakistani PM warns of nuclear war with India

    Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan warned of a “nightmare scenario” with India as tensions continue between the nuclear-armed neighbours continue over Kashmir.

  • Indonesian students protest extra marital sex ban
    <p>Indonesian student's protests have entered their third day as they continue to oppose proposed reforms to the criminal code that would ban extramarital sex and penalise insulting the president.</p> <p>Witnesses reported that the police fired tear gas and water cannons to break up rallies in Jakarta and other cities.</p>
  • Truck explosion in Mali kills six

    A tanker exploded in Bamako, the capital of Mali, has killed six people and badly wounded 46 others on Tuesday. 

    Reuters notes that there have been no immediate connections made to Islamist groups who frequently carry out violent attacks in the north and the center of Mali.

    Read more here.

  • Pakistan earthquake kills at least 25
    <p>At least 25 people have been killed and over 450 injured in an earthquake that struck Pakistani Kashmir on Tuesday, reported Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).</p> <p>Reuters reports that the earthquake leveled homes and shops and tore open roads in areas between the towns of Jhelum and Mirpur to the north part of which is in Pakistan’s portion of the disputed territory of Kashmir.&nbsp;</p>
  • Over 400 Egyptian protesters arrested
    <p>Egyptians security officials have arrested over 400 people, as hundreds gathered in Cairo and other cities to protest government corruption.</p> <p>The protesters, defying a government ban on protests, called on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to step down.</p> <p>Reuters notes that witnesses saw plainclothes security officials were seen stopping people in central Cairo and checking social media content on their mobiles phones.</p>
  • Bombing outside of Karbala, Iraq kills at least a dozen 
    <p>Police officials report that at least a dozen people have been killed and many more wounded in a blast near the Iraqi city of Karbala, south of Baghdad.</p> <p>The bomb was planted on a bus and detonated near a northern entrance to the city as it passed through an army checkpoint between Karbala and the town of al-Hilla.</p>
  • Thousands demand justice for protesters in Sudan
    <p>Outside of the presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan,&nbsp; thousands of Sudanese gathered, demanding the appointment of senior judicial officials to investigate the killing of protesters since December.</p>
  • Ten people killed in Mozambique election rally
    <p>At least 10 people have been killed and a further 98 injured during a stampede at an election rally for Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi.</p> <p>Health authorities state that the deaths occurred when a large crowd tried to move through a single gate of a stadium in the city Nampula, northern Mozambique, where the rally was being held on Wednesday.</p>
  • Venezuela’s Opposition Leader warns government plans to dissolve opposition-run legislature
    <p>Venezuela’s pro-government Constituent Assembly held an unscheduled session on Monday which opposition leader, Juan Guaido, has claimed&nbsp;was assembled to plan for the dissolution of the opposition-run legislature and call new legislative elections.</p> <p>Reuters warns that such a move would exacerbate the crisis in Venezuela and may halt Norway-brokered talks between the government and Guaido allies.</p>
  • Separatist rebels seize ports of Aden
    <p>The conflict in Yemen has escalated, with an estimated 40 people killed and hundreds wounded, as southern separatists, trained by the UAE, seized key ports in the city of Aden, triggering “devastating” humanitarian consequences.</p>
  • Man opens fire in Norway Mosque

    A man was arrested in the Al-Noor Islamic Centre, on the outskirts of Norway’s capital Oslo, after he opened fire and injured one person on Saturday.

    Investigating the individual, police found a dead woman at man’s house. The police have claimed that this person is related to the suspect.

    Rune Skjold, assistant chief of police, reported that the suspect "is around 20 years old, a Norwegian citizen from the area”.

  • Four Palestinians killed in Gaza boundary area
    <p>Israel’s army has stated that its forces killed four heavily armed Palestinian men near the boundary area between Gaza and Israel on Saturday morning.</p> <p>The army claims that they began open fire when one of the four men crossed into Israel. They further state that the men were carrying assault rifles, anti-tank missiles, and hand grenades. According to their statement, one of the armed men had hurled a grenade at an Israeli soldier.</p>
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