| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Militants launch largest attacks in months on Baghdad outskirts | |  By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked Iraqi security forces on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday in their largest assault near the capital for months, while two suicide blasts in a mainly Shi'ite district killed 31 people. Suicide bombers and gunmen in vehicles and on foot launched the attack on Abu Ghraib at dawn, seizing positions in a grain silo and a cemetery, and killing at least 17 members of the security forces, officials said. Fighting was still raging at the silo site on Sunday evening, security officials said.
|
| Syria's truce largely holding for second day | |  By Mariam Karouny and Tom Miles BEIRUT/ GENEVA (Reuters) - Fighting in Syria appeared to have mostly stopped on Sunday, the second day of a U.S.-Russian deal on a cessation of hostilities which seemed to be holding despite accusations of violations and air strikes in Aleppo province. The agreement is the first of its kind to be attempted in four years and, if it holds, would be the most successful truce of the war. Under the accord accepted by President Bashar al-Assad's government and many of his foes, fighting should cease so aid can reach civilians and talks can open to end a war that has killed more than 250,000 people and made 11 million homeless.
|
| Pragmatic Rouhani hails poll wins, ally salutes will of people | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and reformist partners won a big vote of confidence in elections that could speed up Iran's emergence from isolation, and a key ally told long dominant hardliners to accept that voters wanted them to step aside. The polls for parliament and a leadership body were seen by analysts as a potential turning point for Iran, where nearly 60 percent of its 80 million population is under 30 and eager to engage with the world following the lifting of most sanctions. While advances by moderates and independents in Friday's polls were most evident in the capital, the scale of the gains in Tehran suggests a legislature more friendly to the pragmatist Rouhani is distinctly possible.
|
| Syria's opposition says will stick to truce despite violations | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's opposition will stick to the cessation of hostilities despite what they said were 15 violations by Syrian government forces on Saturday and more breaches on Sunday, a spokesman for the High Negotiating Committee (HNC) said. "The decision is to remain quiet, not to do anything, and I believe they will stick to the truce," Salim al-Muslat said. "Yesterday was the first day people can really go out and walk in the streets." Muslat said the HNC would complain to the United Nations and countries backing the peace process about alleged Russian air strikes around the city of Aleppo, in an area with no fighters from the Islamic State or Nusra Front groups, excluded from the truce.
|
| Egyptian lawmaker attacked with shoe for dining with Israeli ambassador | |  Egyptian lawmaker Tawfik Okasha was attacked in parliament on Sunday, with one colleague hurling a shoe at him and others demanding he be suspended after he invited the Israeli ambassador for dinner. Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognise Israel with a United States-sponsored 1979 peace accord, but Egyptian attitudes to the country's neighbour remain icy. Israel has an ambassador stationed in Cairo but Egyptian officials make a point of keeping their distance and the embassy has been the focal point of protests in the past.
|
| Yemen says Aden airport to reopen in weeks after refurbishment | |  Aden airport is expected to reopen fully for commercial traffic within weeks, Yemen's information minister said, a move that would shore up confidence in the ability of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government to control the volatile city. The minister, Mohammed Qobati, told Reuters the airport was being guarded by local fighters recently incorporated into a new Yemeni army which Hadi had been rebuilding since July, together with troops from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is a member of an Arab alliance fighting the Houthis and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in a bid to restore Hadi's internationally recognised government.
|
| Bangladesh police raid suspected militant hideout, find explosives | | | Bangladesh police seized explosives and bomb-making materials on Sunday from a hideout used by Jama'atul-Mujahideen militants believed to be behind a spate of recent attacks in the south Asian nation, a police spokesman said. Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a rise in Islamist violence in the last year, including the killing of several liberal activists and attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslims, a Christian priest and Hindu temples. Police searched a house on the outskirts of Dhaka based on information from members of the banned Jama'atul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) captured in an earlier raid in the capital, said Maruf Hossain Sardar, a deputy commissioner of police. |
| Indian man kills 14 members of own family, then hangs himself | | | Thirty five year-old Hasnin Warekar killed his parents and several of his sisters and their children at the family home shortly after midnight in the city of Thane, about 27 kms (16.8 miles) north of Mumbai, police spokesman Gajanan Kabdule said. One of Warekar's sisters survived the attack, and is being treated for her injuries in hospital. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment