ONlY SYRIANS INVITED TO GENEVA PEACE TAlKS: UN
Geneva: Only Syrians have been invited to peace talks in Geneva, the UN said on Wednesday, in an apparent contradiction to Turkey's suggestion that it would be included. On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara would ‘boycott’ the talks set to open on Friday if the Syrian Kurdish group Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Ankara believes is linked to militants fighting inside Turkey, was at the negotiating table.
13 DEAD IN SUICIDE ATTACKS IN NIGERIA'S CHIBOK TOWN
Kano: At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, where Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls.
INDIAN WINS AMNESTY AWARD
london: The Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016 has gone to Indian activist Henri Tiphagne. A lawyer and human rights defender, Tiphagne will be awarded the 8th Human Rights Award by Amnesty International Germany. The award comes with 10,000 euros.
CHINA TO BUIlD FlOATING NUClEAR POWER PlANT
Beijing: China is planning to build a floating Nuclear power station as it seeks to double its atomic capacity by 2020, a senior official said on Wednesday.
2 DEAD, 3 HURT IN SEATTlE CAMP SHOOTING
Seattle: Two people were killed and three others wounded as shooting erupted at a Seattle homeless encampment known as ‘The Jungle,’ officials said.
SUICIDE ATTACKS KIll 4 IRAQI TROOPS IN W IRAQ
Baghdad: Officials say a series of suicide attacks have killed at least four Iraqi security forces and wounded ten others in western Iraq. Sheikh Mal-Allah al-Obeidi, head of the town council in al-Baghdadi, in Anbar province, said five suicide bombers attacked his guesthouse at dawn on Wednesday.
177 HOSPITAlS DESTROYED IN SYRIA: AID GROUP
Paris: A Syrian aid group on Wednesday denounced the incessant bombing of medical facilities in the war-wracked country, where 177 hospitals have been destroyed and nearly 700 health workers killed. Between August 2012 and December 2015, 330 medical sites, including 177 hospitals, were destroyed by armed attacks, Mufti told a conference in Paris.