BAUCHI/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind Monday’s twin suicide bombing at a university in north eastern Nigeria which killed two people. A video featuring an audio recording purporting to be leader Abubakar Shekau was posted on social media late on Monday. Reuters was unable to verify if…
Beijing (CNN)Chinese authorities have taken a dim view of a close call between a commercial drone and a passenger plane. The footage, shows the airliner descending for landing, apparently taken from the perspective of the unmanned drone, flying by at close range. Chinese state media reports that the drone’s pilot has been detained by police.…
Turkish police have arrested the main suspect in the New Year’s Eve attack on an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul after a huge manhunt. Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed to have mounted the assault on the Reina club which left 39 people dead. The Uzbek national is said to have been caught in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district. Citizens…
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday (Jan 15) reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate on maritime security and deepen defence ties, as both nations feud with China over sea territory. Abe – in Indonesia on a regional tour that has taken in Australia and the Philippines and will include…
Ukrainian investigators have confirmed that last month’s power outage in the country was the result of a cyberattack by the same group that struck in December 2015, claiming they may be practising for major attacks elsewhere. The attack last month was smaller scale than the 2015 blitz which left around 230,000 people without power. It…
THE RETIRED MILITARY COMMANDER’S NEW JOB MAY PROVE DISASTROUS FOR PAK-IRAN BILATERAL TIES. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz has appointed Pakistan’s former Army chief, General Raheel Sharif, as commander of the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT), a force of 39 Muslim states “combating international terrorism.” Given Sharif’s record of initiating the…
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