Blast on train kills 16 in SW Pakistan
Islamabad: At least 16 people, including women and children, were killed and over 40 others injured when militants bombed a train in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province on Tuesday. The blast took place inside the bogie number 9 of Rawalpindi-bound Jaffar Express as passengers were disembarking at Sibi Railway Station.
Iraq attacks kill 12 in ambush
Baghdad: Attacks in Iraq left 12 people dead on Tuesday while security forces said they killed 25 militants near Baghdad amid worries insurgents are encroaching on the capital weeks ahead of elections. The latest violence is part of a protracted surge in nationwide bloodshed that has left more than 2,400 people dead since the start of the year and sparked fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out sectarian conflict that plagued it in 2006-07.
honeymoon murder suspect sent to custody
Johannesburg: Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani, 34, was on Tuesday charged by a South African court with plotting his 28-year-old wife's murder during their honeymoon in 2010 and was remanded to a psychiatric hospital, shortly after being extradited from the UK. After being flown to Cape Town, Dewani was escorted to the Western Cape High Court, where he was formally charged with his wife’s murder.