Bombs targeting a police station and a shopping centre have killed at least six people and wounded another 40 in the troubled north-eastern state of Assam, where rebels have led a decades-old struggle for secession.
After the recent deadly attacks in Kabul, fears for the coming elections are all over the Web. Also in this edition, fat people are not afraid to claim their pride online.
Sunni group Jundallah claimed responsibility for Sunday’s deadly suicide bombing in south-eastern Iran. An Iranian delegation will head to Pakistan to demand custody of the bombing's planner.
Six Senegalese soldiers have been killed in a rebel attack carried out by members of the Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (MFDC), a former independence group, according to Senegalese military sources.
A car bomb targeting Ismail Khan, Afghanistan’s energy minister and a prominent political figure, in the western city of Herat Sunday killed at least three people, according to police officials. Khan was not hurt in the attack.
Italy held a ceremony at Ciampino Airport in Rome Sunday, as the bodies of the six soldiers who died in a suicide attack targeting NATO troops in Kabul arrived home. On Saturday, a separate ceremony took place in Kabul.
Soldiers from 40 nations paid silent homage to the six Italian soldiers killed in Thursday’s attack at a somber ceremony in Kabul Saturday. The bodies of the slain troops are on their way home for Monday’s funerals.
British military deaths in Afghanistan has reached 201, as a soldier injured on Thursday in the Helmand province died in a hospital in England, the Defence Ministry said. Violence has escalated in the country ahead of presidential elections.
Attacks in Afghanistan’s restive southern provinces killed three British and two US soldiers amid heightened concerns over the security situation ahead of next week’s presidential and provincial elections.
