Somalia bomb: Several killed near airport
Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia, police say. The bomber drove between the convoy and its security escort near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu, police said. The United Nations and the British and Italian embassy compounds are based in... read more »
2 children, 1 adult killed when school buses collide in Tennessee
KNOXVILLE – Three people died and 23 were injured when two school buses collided on a highway in East Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday. Two of the dead were children, while an adult aide was also killed. Officials said that a school bus from Knoxville’s Chilhowee Intermediate Elementary... read more »
India votes against UNGA resolution on nuclear weapons
India, along with the US and Pakistan, has voted against a provision in a UN resolution calling on to “promptly” accede to the NPT as non-nuclear- weapon nation “without conditions” and to place all its nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards. A draft resolution on... read more »
Lebanon detains Islamic State leader Baghdadi’s wife
ebanese security forces have detained a wife and young child of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near the border with Syria, the army says. The pair were picked up by military intelligence after entering Lebanon with forged papers 10 days ago. Baghdadi’s wife – identified... read more »
