Save the Children offices in Afghanistan hit by attack
Attackers have detonated explosives before storming the offices of the Save the Children charity in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
At least two people have been killed and 12 injured, officials say. It is believed about 50 staff were in the building at the time.
At least three gunmen are involved in the attack, reports say, with fighting continuing on the upper floor.
No group has yet said it was behind the attack.
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The attack started at about 09:10 local time (04:40 GMT) on Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle explosive at the entrance to the Save the Children compound, Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, told the BBC.
Bereaved families await justice seven years after Tunisian revolution
More than 300 died in uprising but there is no list of names and no one is in jail for the attacks
Seven years after Tunisia’s revolution, relatives of hundreds of people who died and thousands who were injured in the fight for democracy say they are still waiting for justice and recognition.
No one is currently in jail for attacks carried out during days of protests in early 2011, lawyers for the families say, even though many suspects have been identified and some have been arrested and prosecuted.
Nor has the government published an official list of the more than 300 Tunisians who died, or the injured. There are no national monuments to the sacrifice of these mostly young men and women, and bereaved families and injured survivors say they have had little of the practical or financial help they were promised.
Opinion: Erdogan's one-two punch — fighting Kurds and journalists
Turkey is waging a targeted war against Kurds in Syria and journalists who criticize it are being arrested. Meanwhile, NATO allies and Russia are all burying their heads in the sand, says Baha Gungor.
Almost 25 years ago to the day, Ugur Mumcu, one of the most respected investigative journalists in Turkish history, was killed in a bomb attack in Ankara. Islamist terrorists had planted an explosive device under his car. In his columns and books, Mumcu railed against religious fanaticism and corruption and for freedom of the press. It was he who coined the phrase: "Freedom of the press is not a gift from the state."
Mumcu is one of many journalists murdered in Turkey for defending the truth. Turkish and Kurdish reporters, columnists, correspondents or bloggers defiantly fighting for the public's right to information and government transparency share the fate of colleagues working under dictatorships the world over. They risk their lives and their freedom when they investigate, report or comment. Thus, it came as no surprise when state prosecutors in Diyarbakir in southeastern Anatolia announced they had arrested 30 journalists who had shared reports critical of the government's military incursion into northern Syria on social media. Authorities in Istanbul are also currently investigating some 70 more journalists for publishing articles critical offensive in Afrin.
Police video of Chinese lawyer's arrest raises questions
Chinese authorities appear to be mounting a smear campaign against a detained human rights lawyer by releasing a seemingly edited police video which shows him resisting arrest and then swinging at an officer, campaigners say.
Yu Wensheng was seized Friday by roughly a dozen police, including a SWAT team, as he left his Beijing apartment to walk his child to school, sources said.
Yu, best known for suing the Beijing government over the city's once chronic pollution, has been a persistent voice for reform despite an increasingly severe crackdown on activism under President Xi Jinping.
The video, taken by a police body cam and published Tuesday by state media outlet The Paper, showed police surrounding the 50-year-old on a street before dawn and telling him he was to be detained for "provoking trouble".
How Egypt presidential election is rendered irrelevant
by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed any remaining doubt last week, as he formally announced his intention to seek a second term in Egypt's upcoming presidential elections.
The Egyptian army chief-turned-president's announcement surprised few experts, who say Sisi is almost guaranteed to be re-elected, after he made it nearly impossible for any real political opponent to challenge his firm grip on power.
"I think the word 'election' is probably too generous," said Timothy Kaldas, non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, about the vote that is scheduled to take place in March.
The growing conservative conspiracy theory about missing FBI texts, explained
President Trump just called it “one of the biggest stories in a long time.” But the real story isn’t what he thinks.
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In the conservative world, outrage over “the missing texts” is everywhere.
The allegation, which you’re hearing from President Trump, Fox News, and Republicans in Congress alike, is that the FBI intentionally deleted an unknown number of texts between two FBI employees. The messages of special agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page supposedly contain proof of an FBI plot to undermine the Trump presidency.
Strzok and Page have been in the crosshairs of the White House and its defenders since the mid-December release of texts in which they discussed an “insurance policy” against Trump in the runup to the November election. Special counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from his team when he became aware of the texts, but that hasn’t stopped some conservatives from alleging that they prove the Mueller probe is a partisan witch hunt.
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