Suspected militants kill two police in Indian Kashmir: Official
SRINAGAR: Two Indian policemen were shot dead Saturday by suspected militants in a high security area of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, police said. The policemen were shot from point...
View ArticleIndia monsoon floods kill at least 560, with thousands missing
NEW DELHI: Flash floods and landslides triggered by early monsoon rains have killed at least 560 people in northern India and left tens of thousands missing, officials said on Saturday, with the death...
View ArticleGunmen ‘kill 10 tourists’ in Kashmir
Gunmen have killed 10 foreign tourists after storming a hotel in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, police say.
View ArticleGunmen kill 10 foreigners in Pakistan hotel
Gunmen burst into a hotel in northern Pakistan early Sunday, killing 10 foreigners, authorities said.
View ArticleMilitants in India kill eight in Kashmir ahead of Singh’s visit
SRINAGAR: Heavily-armed militants killed eight soldiers in Indian administered Kashmir on Monday in the deadliest such attack in five years, marring a landmark visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
View ArticleTaliban faction ‘to kill foreigners’
Ten climbers shot dead at a mountain base camp in northern Pakistan were killed by a branch of the Taliban set up to target foreigners, the militants say.
View ArticleZimmerman ‘wanted to kill’ teen
Neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman shot dead an unarmed black teenager “because he wanted to”, a prosecutor says at the start of his trial.
View ArticleCafe attacks in Iraq kill 17
BAGHDAD: Attacks mostly targeting cafes in and around Baghdad killed 17 people, officials said on Friday, the latest violence to spark concern of a revival of all-out sectarian war. The blasts on...
View ArticleBomb blasts kill Iraq militiamen
At least 10 people are killed in twin bombings in the western city of Ramadi, in attacks apparently targeting Sunni militiamen.
View ArticleSoldiers kill two near Srinagar, new protest fears
SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in a village near Srinagar on Sunday, killing one person, during protests over the shooting death of a teenager in a military operation, a police...
View ArticlePakistan bombings kill at least 47
Two separate bomb blasts in different parts of Pakistan on Sunday killed a total of at least 47 people and wounded more than 90 others, authorities said.
View ArticleMilitants kill 6 in attack on checkpoint near Peshawar: Officials
PESHAWAR: Dozens of heavily armed militants stormed a checkpoint near Peshawar overnight, killing at least six paramilitary police and wounding seven others, officials said Wednesday. The attack took...
View ArticleTV channel fined over ‘kill’ speech
An Asian TV channel is fined £85,000 by Ofcom after it broadcast a speech saying Muslims had “a duty to kill” anyone who insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
View ArticleGunmen kill 20 students, teacher in Nigerian school shooting
Gunmen stormed a school in Nigeria killing 20 students and a teacher over the weekend, state news reported.
View ArticleRoadside bombs kill 14, injure 49 in Iraq
Three roadside bombs killed at least 14 people and wounded 49 others in Iraq Saturday, Baghdad police said.
View ArticleDrone strikes kill 2 in Pakistan
Two suspected militants were killed when missiles thought to be from a U.S. drone struck in Mir Ali Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency on Saturday, Pakistani intelligence sources said.
View ArticleGunmen kill 7 in Pakistan’s restive Quetta
Motorcyle-riding gunmen killed seven people in the restive Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, with four members of the country’s Hazara religious minority among the victims, police said.
View ArticleOfficial: Militants in Yemen kill man they said was gay
A security official in Yemen’s southern Lahj province say that religious militants have shot dead a man they had accused of being gay.
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