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| Army clears protesters, fires warning shots in Burkina Faso | |  By Joe Penney and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's army cleared thousands of protesters from the capital and fired warning shots at state TV headquarters on Sunday as it sought to tighten its grip on power following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore two days ago. Compaore's 27 years in charge of the landlocked former French colony ended abruptly on Friday after two days of mass protests aimed at thwarting his bid to change the constitution to extend his rule. The army then selected Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida as transitional leader, overriding an earlier claim by the army chief of staff. Witnesses said prominent opposition leader Saran Sereme and an army general, along with a crowd of their supporters, headed to the RTB Television on Sunday afternoon to declare themselves in charge of the transition but were thwarted by the army.
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| Suspected suicide bomber kills 45 on Pakistani-Indian border | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Pakistani-Indian border, police said, just after a daily ceremony when troops from both sides simultaneously lower the two nations' flags. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a response to the Pakistani army's actions against their positions in tribal areas straddling Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The suicide bombing took place in a car park on the Pakistani side at least 500 meters from the border with India. I rushed to the scene and saw scattered bodies, injured men, women and children and smashed cars," a Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters. |
| Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for Pakistan-India border attack | | | The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the Pakistani-Indian border near the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday which killed at least 45 people. The attack was carried out in response to the Pakistani army's operation against Islamist militants in the tribal areas straddling the Afghan border, he said. |
| Suspected separatists attack barracks, police camp on Kenya's coast | | | By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan soldiers shot dead six suspected members of a separatist group after they hacked an officer to death in an attack on barracks in the port city of Mombasa, police and military officials said on Sunday. Also late on Saturday, officers fought off armed men at a police station in the tourist resort of Malindi, about 120 km (75 miles) north east of Mombasa. Authorities believe both attacks were carried out by members of the outlawed Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), which wants independence for Kenya's Indian Ocean coastal regions. |
| Gunfire rings out at Burkina Faso state TV headquarters | | | Gunfire rang out on Sunday at the headquarters of Burkina Faso's state-run RTB Television as the broadcaster went off air, a Reuters witness said, amid a power struggle following the resignation of long-ruling President Blaise Compaore. Compaore's 27 years in power ended abruptly on Friday after two days of mass protests aimed at thwarting his bid to change the constitution to extend his rule. The shots were fired shortly after the arrival of Saran Sereme, the head of opposition party PDC, and about 100 of her supporters chanting "Saran President". |
| Explosion on India-Pakistan border was suicide bomb attack - police | | | A suicide bomber was probably responsible for an explosion on the Pakistani-Indian border that killed at least 37 people on Sunday, a senior police officer said. Local media had said the blast near the Pakistani city of Lahore was caused by a gas cylinder. "According to initial information it was a suicide attack," Inspector General of Punjab Police, Mushtaq Sukhera, told local television channels. |
| At least 35 killed, up to 70 wounded in Pakistan-India border blast | | | LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 35 people including women and children were killed and as many as 70 wounded in an explosion on the Pakistani-Indian border near the Pakistani city of Lahore, a local doctor said. "We received 35 bodies including those of women and children and 60 to 70 were wounded," Deputy Medical Superintendent of Ghurki Hospital near the Wagah border crossing, identified only as Dr Khurram, told domestic television channels. (Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| At least 30 killed in explosion on Pakistani-Indian border - source | | | LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed in an explosion near the Pakistani-Indian border on Sunday after a daily ceremony at the Wagah border crossing, an intelligence source told Reuters. Media reports said the explosion was caused by a gas cylinder but the source said authorities were checking suggestions it might have been a suicide attack. Every day before sunset soldiers from Pakistan and India gather at the crossing, usually drawing big crowds on both sides, to simultaneously lower the two nations' flags. ... |
| Tehran court jails Iranian-British woman over volleyball match protest | | | An Iranian-British woman who took part in a demonstration in Tehran against a ban on women attending some men's sporting events was jailed for a year for spreading anti-state propaganda, Iranian media said. Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was arrested on June 20 outside the city's Azadi Stadium, where she and others were demanding that women be allowed in to watch a volleyball match between Iran and Italy. She was charged by a Tehran court with activities and propaganda against the Islamic Republic. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted her lawyer, Alireza Tabatabaie, on Saturday as saying her sentence may be cut due to previous good behaviour. |
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