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New York, June 8 (JEN): Now in its fifth day, a crackdown by the military authorities in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, with dozens reported killed, has prompted a “gravely concerned” UN human rights office (OHCHR) to propose the “rapid deployment” of a monitoring team to look into allegations of serious rights violations. more
Egyptian security forces kill 4 suspected terrorists after Sinai attack

Cairo (Xinhua/UNI) Egyptian security forces killed four suspected terrorists who were involved in a deadly attack on a police checkpoint in the restive Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's Interi ...

Australia terror attack: Bangladeshi student Momena Shoma sentenced to 42 years in jail

Melbourne: An Australian court has sentenced a Bangladeshi woman to 42 years in jail after she was found guilty of engaging in a terrorist act in the country.

Three IS militants killed in western Iraq

Baghdad (Xinhua/UNI) A total of three Islamic State (IS) militants, including a would-be suicide bomber, were killed on Tuesday in two separate incidents in Iraq's western province of ...

Four soldiers, three IS militants killed in clash in central Iraq

Baghdad (Xinhua/UNI) At least four Iraqi soldiers and three Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Tuesday in a clash in north of the capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.

Afghanistan: Explosion in northern Baghlan province leaves 2 killed

Kabul, June 4: At least two people were killed as an explosion rocked Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province on Tuesday, media reports said.

Kabul: Explosion rocks Kabul city, 5 killed

Kabul: At least five people were killed and 10 others were hurt as an explosion rocked Afghanistan capital Kabul city on Monday, media reports said.  

Afghanistan: Multiple blasts rock Kabul, one killed

Kabul: Three IED blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kabul city on Sunday and killed at least one person on Sunday, media reports said.

Captured IS base turned into school in East Afghanistan

Jalalabad (Xinhua/UNI): A former base of the hardliner Islamic State (IS) group has been turned into a school in Haska Mina district of the eastern Nangarhar province, provincial governor ...

Mozambique: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom meets the child cyclone survivors who’ve lost everything

New York, May 31 (JEN): Visiting storm-ravaged Mozambique, UN Children’s Fund Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom, listened to devastating stories of children who lost everything in C ...