Tunis: Police opened fire on Islamists who attacked a police station in eastern Hergla Tunisia on Thursday, killing one person said a source in the security services. Several hundred activists Salafist gathered outside the police station to protest against the arrest of several of their comrades...
In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this West African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. On a recent day, small groups of Malians stood...
The Malian army has arrested the leader of a village in the country's north on drug trafficking charges according to a report by Associated Press . However this is not just a small local story and it reveals the corruption of international drug smuggling cartels which have wrought havoc in the...
Paris: The Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI), French domestic intelligence service, is accused by Wikipedia of having applied pressure on an administrator to remove an article that contains information about a military telecommunications station. The Wikimedia Foundation said...
One of the major sticking points in preparing for elections and achieving reconciliation in war torn Mali is the animosity and hatred between the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and the government and people of Mali. Many Malians stress that rebellion should not be allowed to...
Shanghai: One person died in Anhui province, bringing to nine the number of people killed by the new strain of bird flu in China, reports the New China news agency. H7N9 strain, against which the Chinese authorities announced that a vaccine would be ready in the coming months, has infected 28...
South Korea said on Wednesday there was "very high" probability that North Korea, engaged in weeks of threats of war, would launch a medium-range missile at any time as a show of strength despite diplomatic efforts to soften its position. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said South Korea had asked...
Weapons are spreading from Libya at an "alarming rate," fueling conflicts in Mali, Syria and elsewhere and boosting the arsenals of extremists and criminals in the region, according to a U.N. report published on Tuesday. The report by the U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts - who monitor an...
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