Cotabato City, Philippines - Three civilians, including a five-year-old boy, were killed in an attack by Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.
The attack occurred Thursday in Midsayap town in North Cotabato province, 930 kilometres south of Manila, according to town police chief Inspector Renante Cabico.
Cabico said an undetermined number of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked a military outpost in Midsayap and indiscriminately opened fire as they withdrew.
Dili - Young people from around the world gathered this week in East Timor to participate in a conference to share ideas on identity, conflict and peace as the country, one of the most at-risk nations in Asia, tries to come to terms with long-standing violence in its society.
Talks at the Youth, Identity and Nation-Building conference began Thursday with its launch by the president of the parliament, followed by a traditional war dance.
Washington, Nov 14: President-elect Barack Obama will resign from the Senate effective from Sunday.
As he steps down, Obama tells his constituents “it has been one of the highest honors and privileges of my life to have served the people of Illinois in the United States Senate.”
In the statement, the Illinois senator said “his four-year term has been one of the highest honors and privileges of my life,” FOX News reported
Kabul, Nov 14: At least nine persons, including one US soldier and nine Afghan civilians, were killed Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, when a suicide car bomber struck a US military convoy.
Around 74 civilians were wounded in the attack, the Daily Times quoted a US military spokesman as saying.
In a separate incident, two British troops were killed on Wednesday in an explosion in Helmand province’s Garmser district, said in a statement released by Britain’s Defence Ministry.
Washington, Nov 14: Scientists have solved a 77-million-year old mystery of a unique fossilized nest and eggs, by determining the egg layer to be a small theropod (meat-eating) dinosaur.
The scientific detective work was conducted by University of Calgary (U of C) and Royal Tyrrell Museum researchers.
“Working out who the culprit was in this egg abandonment tragedy is a difficult problem to crack,” said Darla Zelenitsky, U of C paleontologist and the lead author of the research.
“After further investigation, we discovered that this find is rarer than we first thought. It is a one of a kind fossil. In fact, it is the first nest of its kind in the world,” she added.
London, Nov 14: The Taliban have reportedly dubbed the recent executions of nine death row prisoners as “barbaric”, and made appeals to the UN, the EU, the Red Cross and human rights groups to ask the Hamid Karzai administration to abstain from such moves in future.
The nine criminals executed were involved in crimes like child molesting, kidnap, murder and insurgent attacks.
According to The Telegraph, a statement posted on a website, purportedly coming from the organisation''s leadership council, raised concerns about fair trials.
Cotabato City, Philippines - Three civilians, including a five-year-old boy, were killed in an attack by Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.
Dili - Young people from around the world gathered this week in East Timor to participate in a conference to share ideas on identity, conflict and peace as the country, one of the most at-risk nations in Asia, tries to come to terms with long-standing violence in its society.
Washington, Nov 14: President-elect Barack Obama will resign from the Senate effective from Sunday.
London, Nov 14: The Taliban have reportedly dubbed the recent executions of nine death row prisoners as “barbaric”, and made appeals to the UN, the EU, the Red Cross and human rights groups to ask the Hamid Karzai administration to abstain from such moves in future.
