12 dead in suspected Boko Haram wedding attack
Maiduguri (Nigeria): Twelve people died in a suspected Boko Haram attack on a wedding party at the weekend, police and health officials in the North-East Nigerian State of Borno said on Monday.
Colorado prepares for 1st legal pot industry in US
Denver: As Colorado prepares to be the first US State to allow recreational marijuana sales, starting Wednesday, retailers are investing their fortunes into an industry that faces an uncertain future. Officials, activists and Governments around the US And beyond are watching the experiment unfold in Colorado and Washington, where recreational pot goes on sale in mid-2014. So is the US Department of Justice, which for now is not fighting to shut down the industry.
44 Iraq MPs resign after protest camp cleared
Baghdad: Forty-four Iraqi MPs announced their resignation on Monday after security forces demolished a Sunni anti-Government protest site and detained a lawmaker. The announcement was made at a televised news conference at which the MPs also demanded “the withdrawal of the Army... and the release of MP Ahmed al-Alwani,” a Sunni who was arrested during a deadly raid on Saturday.
8 terrorists shot dead in Xinjiang province
Beijing: Chinese police on Monday shot dead eight terrorists who had launched a pre-dawn attack on them using knives and explosives in the volatile Xinjiang region, two weeks after a similar incident in the same region bordering PoK claimed 16 lives.
70 journalists died on the job in 2013: Report
New York: At least 70 journalists were killed on the job around the world in 2013, including 29 who died covering the civil war in Syria and 10 slain in Iraq, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The dead in Syria included a number of citizen journalists working to document combat in their home cities, broadcasters who worked with media outlets affiliated with either the Government or the Opposition, and a handful of correspondents for the foreign press, including an Al-Jazeera reporter, Mohamed al-Mesalma, who was shot by a sniper.
Dubai-based Indian doc to lead free surgery team
Dubai: A team of doctors led by a Dubai- based Indian surgeon will travel to India next month to conduct free surgeries on children with cleft lips, besides an acid attack victim. Up to 45 operations will be done in Indian villages over two days by five doctors.