Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, Al-Shabaab, has carried out a car bombing and gun attack at the Nasahablood Hotel, located at the KM4 road area in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. “They started with a suicide bomb and then stormed in,” Major Nur Farah told Reuters. Following the car explosion, a militant blew
Lancôme, the cosmetics company owned by French cosmetics corporation L’Oreal, has recently come under scrutiny by pro- democracy and freedom of expression activists as a result of mass protest over a cancelled concert by artist Denise Ho. The store was forced to shut their main stores in Hong Kong on the
In the latest symbol of Indian investment in its South Asian neighbour, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a multi-million-dollar dam in the province of Herat, in western Afghanistan that will bring power, irrigate 75,000 hectares of land, generate 42 MW of electricity, and stimulate
Twenty-four people have died, including two police officers, due to the violence in Mathura, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, around 150 kilometres east of the capital New Delhi. Among the dead was a police superintendent, the most senior officer in the city. The violence erupted between the Indian police
Since its historic 2015 elections, Myanmar has been transitioning from a military government to a largely civilian elected parliament. The recent removal of a host of financial and trade US embargoes have been in recognition of a landmark November election in which the party of Aung San Suu Kyi won by
In the seven decades since the bombing of Hiroshima, sitting U.S. presidents have made numerous visits to Japan, but Hiroshima has never been on the itinerary. However, the recent announcement about President Barack Obama’s decision to visit Hiroshima as part of a previously scheduled trip to Japan for the
Humanitarian conditions in ISIL strongholds have gradually deteriorated, showing no signs of improvement any time soon. Along with countless loss of lives, many have been victims of harrowing torture, abuse, and dreadful conditions. Suicide bombing, shelling, and aerial bombardment on territories by ISIL have caused indiscriminate suffering and starvation. To
The Syrian city of Aleppo has witnessed a fresh round of violence amid rising fears of an assault on rebel areas by regime forces gathering on the city outskirts. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, said all parties had shown a “monstrous disregard”
