Syria conflict: MSF says deadly air strike hit Aleppo hospital
- 28 April 2016
- Middle East
At least 14 patients and three doctors have been killed in an air strike on a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) says.
Among those killed in the MSF-supported al-Quds hospital was one of the city's last paediatricians, MSF said.
Local sources blamed Syrian or Russian war planes. The Syrian military later denied targeting the hospital.
Monitors say attacks by both sides left 34 dead and dozens wounded on Thursday.
Violence in Syria, and particularly in Aleppo, has intensified in recent days, despite a partial truce.
A year after the Bali Nine executions, Indonesia prepares firing squads again
Deaths of eight prisoners, including two Australians, prompted a huge outcry – and a pause in executions. But now foreigners on death row fear their own sentences could be just weeks awayThe chatter is ominous. Talk that the death squad is at the ready; that a new, bigger execution ground is in the making. Officials say it could be just weeks away.
And after the circus last year, the security minister Luhut Panjaitan hopes there will be less “drama” this time around.
One year after the international uproar and the diplomatic fallout over the execution of eight drug traffickers – including two Australian men, Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran – it appears more executions could be on Indonesia’s horizon this year. Among the foreigners on death row in Indonesia are two Britons, convicted drug smugglers Lindsay Sandiford and Gareth Cashmore.
“I still don’t want to believe it,” says lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis, who this time last year was fighting to save the lives of Chan and Sukumaran. “Yes, there will probably be a statement, but in the end I don’t think there will be any executions. I refuse to believe it.”
Donald Trump’s incoherent speech on foreign policy shows why he’s unfit to be president
It was filled with internal contradictions, falsehoods and crazy assertions
The most remarkable aspect of Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech was that someone actually wrote it out and put it in the teleprompter. It was so filled with internal contradictions, falsehoods and genuinely crazy assertions that one would have thought Trump was speaking extemporaneously. It was a vivid display as to why he is thoroughly unprepared to become commander in chief. If anything comes of it, one hopes that a third candidate, sickened to his stomach, will have watched this, jumped from his seat and declared himself ready to rescue the country from the possibility that Trump might be president.
Having mocked use of a teleprompter last night, he used one, reading haltingly. He appeared ill at ease, nervous even. That may because the content, even as rudimentary and discombobulated as it was, did not stem from any thoughts or beliefs he might harbor. In that sense, the speech really was “foreign” to him.
Venezuelans rebel against police who cut queues for food
Waiting in long queues to buy food has become a daily reality for most people living in Venezuela, which is facing serious shortages of essential goods. When some unscrupulous police officers cut the long line in a supermarket in Valencia, people who had been waiting in line for hours got angry.
According to our Observer, who lives in the neighbourhood where the incident took place, the angry reaction shows just how fed up the population is with the special treatment that police are getting during this time of intense shortages.
The incident took place on April 23 in front of a supermarket located on one of the main streets in Valencia, the capital of the northern Venezuelan state of Carabobo. A resident filmed a pick-up truck belonging to the municipal police parked next to the supermarket entrance, where many people are standing. A man – probably a store employee – loads bags of flour into the back of the pick-up under the watchful gaze of three policemen.
India activates eight laser walls along border with Pakistan
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NEW DELHI: India has set up eight laser walls along the shared border with Pakistan and plans to activate four more over the next few days, Times of India reported, citing a senior Indian Border Security Force (BSF) official.
A laser wall is a mechanism to detect objects passing the line of sight between the laser source and the detector. A laser beam over a river sets off a loud siren in case of a breach. The laser walls will cover stretches of treacherous terrain and riverine areas.
India plans to cover more than 40 vulnerable unfenced stretches along the Pakistan border with laser walls, with the home ministry giving it a top priority to prevent any infiltration, Times of India said in an earlier report quoting a home ministry official.
North Korea 'missile crashes' moments after launch
South Korea says suspected mid-range ballistic missile crashed, which would be second such failure in recent weeks.
| War & Conflict, Asia Pacific
North Korea fired what appeared to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday but it crashed seconds after the test launch, South Korea's defence ministry said.
North Korean officials did not immediately comment.
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Seoul, said the South Korean defence ministry claimed the missile was fired at 6:40am local time.
A defence ministry official told the Reuters news agency that it appeared to be a Musudan missile with a range of more than 3,000km - the same type of rocket believed to have failed in a test launch earlier this month.
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