EGYPT: At least 2 policemen injured, 10 injured in train blast
At least two policemen have been killed and 10 others injured in a bomb blast in a train in Egypt, a media report said today. The bomb went off yesterday inside the last bogey of a Cairo-bound train at Menouf station, a city in the Nile Delta, the Egyptian TV reported. It was planted by unknown... read more »
Senior AQAP commander killed in U.S. drone strike in Yemen
ADEN – A senior commander of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch, Nabil al-Dahab, was killed along with five other members of the group in a U.S. drone strike in the central province of al-Bayda early on Wednesday, a security official told Xinhua. Al-Dahab was killed along with five others of the... read more »
School bus crash in Egypt kills 16
At least 16 people, mostly children, were killed on Wednesday when a school bus crashed into three other vehicles on a desert road in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, state television said. Photos published online by privately-owned news outlets showed the bus engulfed in flames and later reduced to... read more »
Israel Committed War Crimes in Gaza, Says Amnesty International
JERUSALEM: Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Israel of committing war crimes during the war in the Gaza Strip this summer, saying it displayed “callous indifference” in attacks on family homes in the densely populated coastal area. The Gaza war left more than 2,100... read more »
