Car bomb kills 37 at Yemen police academy
Sanaa: A car bomb tore through dozens of Yemenis lined up at a police academy in Sanaa on Wednesday, killing 37 in the latest attack highlighting the country’s growing instability. Police said another 66 people were wounded in what it described as a “terrorist bombing” targeting potential police recruits, in a statement cited by the official Saba news agency. Unstable and impoverished Yemen has been hit by a wave of violence in recent months, with a powerful Shia militia, known as Huthis, clashing with Sunni tribal forces and the country’s branch of Al-Qaeda. Witness Khaled Ajlan said the early morning blast targeted dozens of “new students who were registering at the police academy”.
Pak army kills 12 militants in airstrikes
Islamabad: Pakistani helicopter gunships on Wednesday swooped down on militants in the volatile northwestern tribal region, killing at least 12 of them in precise aerial strikes.
New round of Iran nuke-talks on Jan 18
Brussels: Major world powers and Iran will hold fresh talks on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme in Geneva on January 18 as they try to meet an end-June deadline for a deal, the European Union announced.
Gunman kills doc, then himself in US
Houston: A gunman shot a doctor at a veterans’ hospital in the US city of El Paso and then turned his gun on himself, authorities said. Both the victim and the shooter in the incident at the El Paso VA Health Care System have died, Major General Stephen M Twitty told reporters.
Nearly 3,000 killed in Karachi violence in 2014
Karachi: Close to 3,000 people, including women and children, were killed last year in Karachi as violence continued to plague Pakistan’s biggest city, a rights body said. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that 2,909 people including some 142 law enforcement personnel from police and paramilitary rangers were killed.