More than a quarter of a million people have fled in terror as opposition militias plot their return. Without international assistance a humanitarian disaster looms. Thierry wants to talk, but chokes on memories of blows and stabs punctuated by the sound of his father pleading for his life before masked men hacked him to death. He shrinks into himself, cold and small on a damp wooden bench just inside Tanzania... “We can never go back.” ... ....
In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth. ....
SpaceX has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), delevering the world's first inflatable tent for astronauts. The US aerospace company's unmanned Dragon cargo ship, carrying lettuce seeds, lab mice and an inflatable pop-up room, arrived on Sunday at the space station where six spacecraft are now docked ... "It looks like we've caught a Dragon," said Peake ... Source. AFP. ....
Ukrainian Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk resigned after weeks of pressure, paving the way for a government revamp seeking to end the nation’s worst political crisis in two years and resume a $17.5 billion bailout. Yatsenyuk, 41, said on Facebook that he’d submit his resignation to parliament on April 12, adding that his party will stay in the coalition allied with PresidentPetro Poroshenko... More from Bloomberg.com....
Bangladeshi secular bloggers should “control” their writings, the country’s home minister said Sunday even as he asserted that home-grown militants and not the Bangladeshi branch of al Qaeda are responsible for the grisly murder of a 26-year-old secular blogger ... Photojournalist arrested in blogger murder case Bangladesh scrambles to confront al-Qaeda threatBangladesh blogs blacked out on arrests of atheists....
A coalition of Islamist and non-Islamist factions led by the miltant Ahraral-Sham, alongside Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, seized the village of Baydaa as heavy fighting continued throughout the day, the Observatory said ... Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halki told a Russian parliamentary delegation that Syrian troops and the ......
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five years after a U.N.-backed force began to push al-Qaida-linked militants out of their strongholds, Somalia boasts clear signs of progress ... The al-Shabab rebels are "resurgent," PresidentHassan Sheikh Mohamud said in an interview last week ... Al-Shabab militants have encircled numerous population centers, cutting off supply lines and often moving into residential areas at night....
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on activists inside the country, says IS militants seized Sheikh Reeh and al-Bal on Sunday ...Al-Qaida abducts ... The Western-backed Free Syrian Army captured the border town of al-Rai from IS on Friday....
Mohammed Zahiral-Sherkat, 36, was seriously injured after being shot by an unidentified masked attacker in Gaziantep province, according to the report ...President Bashar al-Assad and the IS....
Steve Warren, spokesman for the coalition against ISIS, identified the two as Abu al-Zubair al-Bosni and Khaled Othman Al Timawi. Al-Bosni was a Swedish national of Bosnian decent who was killed in Bajar, Iraq, and Al Timawi was a Swedish-born foreign fighter, described by Warren as ISIS's deputy emir of the Anwaral Awlaki brigade." ... Al Qaeda, BokoHarem, alShabaab, are a few of the better known ones....
According to a Sunday report by the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front group were killed during the past 24 hours near Aleppo’s Khalidiya neighborhood and the village of Khan Tuman, where “fierce fighting” is underway between Syrian army forces and terrorists....
The returning families must go through security checks and are only allowed to return to areas cleared of mines and booby traps left behind by the extremists, MayorIbrahimal-Osaj said ...Al-Osaj said seven neighborhoods are still off-limits to residents, not only because of the presence of explosives, but because the areas are "totally ruined."....
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In Syria, with the approach of the real plan, the Western countries, particularly the US and Britain, seem to be caving in to the fait accompli represented in the insistence of Russia and Iran on Bashar al-Assad fighting the presidential battle to the end, because, in his view, he is part of the political process until it ends in 18 months with presidential elections....
Having finished third, second and second in his first three races of the year, Alberto Contador blitzed the final day 16.5km time trial at the VueltaalPais Vasco to secure his first overall victory of the season and fourth career win in the Basque country. "The fans were crazy today at the time-trial ... ....
Al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, is playing a leading role on the side of the insurgents, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group with a network of informers inside Syria... ....