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UK begins airstrikes against IS in Syria
RAF Tornado bombers based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus attacked oilfields in Syria which are controlled by and fund IS. UK...

Investigators blame pilot error for AirAsia crash in...
Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee yesterday declared pilot error to be behind the crash of Indonesia...

Gunman attacks Planned Parenthood clinic, killing th...
ss="published">Saturday, November 28, 2015 Colorado Other stories from Colorado 28 November 2015: Gunman attacks Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three, before surrendering 7 January 2015: FBI investigating explosion near NAACP office in Colorado Springs 6 March 2014: Jon Lujan named United States flag bearer for 2014 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony...

File photo of Dira Square, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where public executions are carried out under Sharia Law. (Image: Luke Richard Thompson.)

At least 52, including six Shia Muslim activists, to...
James Lynch, Middle East and North Africa deputy director of Amnesty International, said Saudi Arabia was settling "political scores" under "the guise of counter-terrorism." The three Shias, Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher, and Hussein al-Marhoon, said they have confessed to their supposed criminal acts under torture, according to Lynch. More than 150 people ...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron wants to join allies in Syria to tackle Islamic State (Image: Zasitu.)

UK Prime Minister David Cameron calls for British ai...
Prime Minister Cameron's address to MPs responded to a Foreign Affairs Committee report from early this month which discouraged UK involvement against IS in Syria. MPs on the committee raised concerns that there is not a "coherent international strategy" on how to tackle IS in Syria and how to end the ongoing conflict in Syria. The report also questioned the l...

Vladimir Putin denies Russian jet was in Turkish airspace (Image: Kremlin.ru.)

Navigator of downed Russian jet found alive in Syria
Russian officials said yesterday navigator Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, from the fighter jet shot down by a Turkish warplane on Tuesday, has been found alive. He was rescued following a twelve-hour mission to find him in Syria. Vladimir Putin denies Russian jet was in Turkish airspace Image: Kremlin.ru. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov, died ...

Coffins of some of the victims at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, photographed days after the crash. (Image: Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.)

New Polish government takes down findings on Russian...
The Law and Justice Party of Poland, which took power last week, this week removed web pages featuring the results of an investigation into the Smolensk air disaster in Russia in 2010. The cause of the crash, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, is disputed. The flight was carrying high-profile political figures to attend a ceremony commemorating the...

Nearby Syntagma Square, from file. (Image: Athenswalk.)

Athens bomb targets business group, damages Cypriot ...
A bombing outside the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises in central Athens, Greece early yesterday morning caused heavy damage to the Cypriot embassy across the street. Nearby Syntagma Square, from file. Image: Athenswalk. The explosion hit Xenofontos Street around 3.30 a.m. local time (0130 UTC). Police had cordoned off the area after two local newspap...

An image of Bhullar from 2011. (Image: Eldonm.)

Canadian politician Manmeet Bhullar dies aged 35 aft...
A road accident killed Alberta Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Manmeet Bhullar on Monday. Bhullar pulled over to the median on a snowy stretch of the Queen Elizabeth II highway between Edmonton and Calgary to help a fellow motorist who had gone off the road, before a semi-truck lost control and hit him. Bhullar died at hospital at the age of 35. Bhul...

Two Pakistani F7s from file. (Image: Asuspine.)

Pakistani female fighter pilot Marium Mukhtiar dies ...
Marium Mukhtiar yesterday became the first Pakistani female fighter pilot to die on duty when a jet aircraft crashed near Kundian, in Punjab's Mianwali district. Two Pakistani F7s from file. Image: Asuspine. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said Flying Officer Mukhtiar and male colleague Squadron Leader Saqib Abbasi faced a "serious in-flight emergency" whi...

MV Suilven off Scotland in 1979. (Image: Dr Neil Clifton.)

Ferry MV Suilven sinks in Suva, Fiji
MV Suilven, a ferry in service in Fiji, capsized and sank in Suva Harbour today. Around thirty people, all crewmembers, were on board. Local media report all were rescued. The 41-year-old vessel previously saw service in Scotland and New Zealand. The ship capsized early this afternoon and sank within an hour. It had been converted from passenger to cargo use...

The aftermath of the attacks in Paris on November 13. (Image: Maya-Anaïs Yataghène.)

Suspects detained in Belgium raids
Authorities in Belgium said police on Sunday and yesterday arrested 21 people suspected of connections with terrorism following more than twenty raids on Sunday evening and further searches yesterday in Belgium's capital Brussels and Belgian cities Charleroi and Liège. However, Salah Abdeslam, suspected of being part of the attacks in Paris on November 13, was...

Saudi Arabian court convicts poet of apostasy, sente...
Fayadh has previously posted a video online of a public lashing by religious police. Mona Kareem, an activist from Kuwait calling for Fayadh's release, said "some Saudis think this was revenge by the morality police." Fayadh was detained by police in August 2013, accused of blasphemy and promoting atheism through his poems. According to Fayadh, this stemmed f...

Germaine Greer gives Cardiff University oration desp...
Feminist author and academic Germaine Greer gave a lecture at Cardiff University on Wednesday despite a petition with over 3,000 signatures calling for its cancellation. I feel like the words Germaine Greer has spouted in recent years has no place in our movement —Emily Cotterill, LGBTQ rights activist Australian Greer gave the Hayden Ellis Lecture...

President Kagame last year. (Image: Veni Markovski.)

Rwandan Senate approves constitutional change allowi...
The changes, which require a referendum before becoming law, reduce the current limit of two seven-year Presidential terms to two five-year terms. Kagame receives an exemption allowing another seven-year term before starting to count his five-year terms. If approved the amendments can keep him in power until 2034. Following Rwanda's genocide Kagame grew popul...

File photo depicting an officer on patrol in Cape Town. (Image: Shi Zhao.)

South African judge jails eight police for Mido Maci...
Judge Bert Bam rejected the 25-year maximum sentence, citing a lack of premeditation and the otherwise good records of the officers involved. Judge Bam said he could not be more lenient owing to a lack of remorse. Officers confronted Macia, whose illegally parked taxi was obstructing traffic in Daveyton, near Johannesburg. Macia remonstrated; an angry crowd f...

One of over 1,000 islands that make up the Maldives. (Image: Timo Newton-Syms.)

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen lifts state of eme...
Attorney General Mohamed Anil cited progress in an investigation into the bombing of Yameen's speedboat in September. The state of emergency was imposed last Wednesday with Yameen reporting security concerns. The move proved controversial. The opposition Democrats accused the President of political motivations and using the powers to block a rally planned to ...

Romainia Prime Minister Victor Ponta (Image: Social Democratic Party of Romania.)

Romanian Prime Minister resigns after nightclub fire
In the aftermath of a deadly nightclub fire in Romania last week, yesterday Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta announced his resignation, stating "I'm handing in my mandate, I'm resigning, and implicitly my government too". I'm handing in my mandate, I'm resigning, and implicitly my government too —Victor Ponta in a statement The announcement c...

A 2010 VW Golf TDI with "Clean Diesel", one of the cars affected by the scandal. (Image: Mariordo Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz.)

Volkswagen emissions scandal may affect thousands mo...
The Volkswagen emissions scandal continued yesterday with the company announcing 800,000 mainly diesel vehicles may also be affected by carbon dioxide emissions problems. The company stated "the safety of the vehicles is in no way compromised". They estimated potentially this could cost them €2bn on top of the €6.7bn set aside to pay for the cost of correctin...

File photo of pyrotechnic effects (Image: Toggy.)

Romanian nightclub fire kills over two dozen
The club was hosting an album launch party which attracted hundreds of attendees at the time of the fire. As of this morning, some people thought to be attending the nightclub were still unaccounted for. A witness told local media that pyrotechnics used in the club ignited nearby objects. The Facebook page for the album launch event said "customized light sho...

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