8 militants killed in Egypt’s Sinai air raids
Cairo: Egyptian air strikes in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least eight militants and destroyed a weapons depot, the military and local residents said on Sunday. The overnight strikes against “a terrorist group” responsible for killing police and army troops in north Sinai left “25 people dead and injured”, army spokesman Colonel Ahmed Aly said.
Sudan’s tribe says 100 killed in new fighting
Khartoum: Fighting between two Arab tribes has killed 100 people in Sudan’s Darfur region, where worsening unrest has left hundreds dead this year, one of them said on Sunday. The battle between a group of Rezeigat and the rival Maaliya tribe happened near Adila in East Darfur State on Saturday. “We clashed with Maaliya... And we destroyed a compound of theirs and killed 70 of them,” said a Rezeigat source, who declined to be named.
Asiana offers $10,000 to crashed plane survivors
Seoul: Asiana Airlines on Sunday said it was offering an initial compensation payment worth US $10,000 to all surviving passengers on board a plane that crashed in San Francisco last month killing three people. The South Korean airline recently started offering the cash to help the 288 surviving passengers meet urgent medical expenses and other needs before final compensation amounts are decided later, an Asiana spokeswoman told AFP.
Over 50 cops injured in Belfast clashes
london: Dozens of police officers were injured during riots by pro-British Protestants in Belfast, in what Northern Ireland’s police chief condemned on Sunday as “mindless anarchy”. A total of 56 officers were hurt, four requiring hospital treatment, when they were attacked with bricks, bottles and paving stones from the street on Saturday night, police said.
More than 30 dead in Syria regime air raids: NGO
Beirut: Syrian regime air strikes killed more than 30 people on Sunday in the latakia province, bastion of the ruling Assad clan, and the northern city of Raqa, a monitory group said. Seven children were among at least 13 civilians killed in an air raid on Raqa, the only provincial Capital in rebel hands, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Morsi loyalists call fresh protests
Cairo: Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi rallied today to demand his reinstatement, amid last ditch efforts for reconciliation ahead of a threatened crackdown on protests. A large convoy of cars carrying pictures of the deposed president beeped their horns as they drove through a neighbourhood in east Cairo. Hundreds at a women’s march in central Cairo chanted against army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who was behind Morsi’s overthrow, shouting: “Sisi is a traitor, Sisi is a killer.” Morsi loyalists, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have kept up two huge camps in Cairo to protest against the Islamist president’s ouster by the military on July 3
Snowden’s father gets visa to visit son
Washington: National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, lon Snowden and his attorney said on Sunday. Neither lon Snowden nor his attorney Bruce Fein has spoken directly with the former NSA analyst since he fled the United States and received asylum in Russia, they said. But the father and lawyer also said they look forward to meeting with Edward Snowden to consider options for the leaker to return to the United States at some point.
‘Flash floods kill 21 near Afghan Capital’
Kabul: Flash floods triggered by heavy rain and hail storms killed more than 20 people on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghan officials said on Sunday, with a mosque, houses and farmland also damaged. The flooding hit the Shakardara and Paghman districts to the North and West of Kabul after the unseasonal rains left knee-deep water across many parts of the war-battered city.