Over 5,000 migrants rescued off libyan coast
Warsaw: Around 5,300 migrants, mainly from Sub-Saharan Africa, were rescued in the Mediterranean off the libyan coast last week, EU border agency Frontex said on Tuesday. Most were rescued over the weekend, plucked from wooden or rubber boats, in one of the busiest three-day periods since the Frontex-coordinated operation Triton was launched in November 2014.
terrorist involved in US aid worker’s kidnap held
lahore: Pakistani security agencies have arrested a Taliban terrorist allegedly involved in the kidnapping of an American aid worker who was accidentally killed in a US drone strike targeting Al-Qaeda.
14 arrested in anti-jehadi raids in Morocco, Spain
Rabat (Morocco): At least 14 suspected members of a cell that recruited jehadi fighters for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria were arrested on Tuesday in a joint operation in Morocco and Spain, authorities said.
Child bomber kills six in north-east Nigeria
Kano: A child bomber killed six people on Tuesday outside a bus station in the heartland of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in northeastern Nigeria.
Blasts at Afghan gas storage facility kill 11
Herat: At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan gas storage facility, which triggered a massive inferno in a nearby settlement for displaced people, officials said on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether the blasts happened on Monday were the result of an accident or caused by a militant attack.
France train gunman a suspected ‘terrorist'IJ
Paris: French prosecutors said on Tuesday that the Moroccan man arrested for last week's train attack is being treated as a suspected ‘terrorist’ who planned to kill a large number of passengers.