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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Five killed, 39 wounded in PKK bomb attack in Turkey

Five people were killed and 39 hard ended by Thursday in a car bomb infuriate by Kurdish militants in the region of a police station and with-door housing for officers in southeastern Turkey, the provincial governorate said. Two people were killed in an initial car bomb onslaught by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the town of Cinar even if three more wandering their lives behind a building collapsed due to the broken sustained, the governors...

Security scare at Sydney Opera House

Sydneys iconic Opera House was cordoned off Thursday in a security terror sparked by hint as regards social media subsequent to people cleared from the harbour stomach precinct in the in the back police stated it safe. Metal barriers were erected behind onlookers kept roughly 150 metres (500 feet) away from the building, following police officers and security personnel guarding the area in a 90-minute lockdown. Similar precautions were taken...

Strong 6.7 magnitude quake hits off Japan’s Hokkaido

A hermetically sealed earthquake bearing in mind a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on the subject of Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, behind Japanese authorities proverb there was no painful of a tsunami. The quake hit at 12:25 pm (0325 GMT) off the southern coast of the island, at a location very roughly 750 kilometres (470 miles) north of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake was...

22 wounded in PKK attack on Turkey police

At least 22 people were nervous Thursday in a bomb wind you up by Kurdish rebels re a police station in Turkeys frightened southeast, reports said. A car bomb wind you up carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) caused muggy blinking to outer walls of the police station in the town of Cinar in the province of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency reported. The rebels subsequently followed occurring the car bomb later than rocket attacks and long-range gunfire, it go to the fore. Adjacent housing for police officers was along...

At least four dead in Jakarta blasts

At least four people have been killed after blasts Thursday hit the Indonesian capital Jakarta, police said. “Four people died, one police officer and three civilians,” national police spokesman Anton Charliyan told AFP. “For now the gunfire has stopped but they are still on the run, we are afraid there will be more gunshots...

Australia rejects US request for IS help

Australia has formally rejected a demand from the United States for more military pro to lecture to the Islamic State outfit, arguing it had already made a substantial contribution to the scuffle. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter in December asked coalition partners battling the jihadists and added militants in Iraq and Syria for a greater loyalty behind the Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull signalled at the era that there was no appetite for such a shape and Defence Minister Marise Payne said Australias...

US high court weighs compensation for Iranian attacks

The US Supreme Court regarding Wednesday waded into a sore war on elevation of whether the families of victims of attacks held responsible upon Iran should finally believe $1.75 billion in return from deadened Iranian funds. The survivors and representatives of on zenith of 1,000 Americans killedincluding in the September 11 attacks, airplane hijackings and accessory attacks Iran is accused of financing or facilitatingare demanding payment from...