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At least 39 people have died after two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The co-ordinated strike was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm. Six…
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has denounced the military government’s new laws passed earlier this week that bar her from running for office as “unjust” and “repressive”. Commenting for the first time since the set of five laws were passed on Monday, she said she is surprised but undaunted by the laws which [...]
There is a common ritual that I, like most Britons, have regularly encountered when riding a taxi in Damascus, Amman or Cairo over the past seven years. Talkative and curious, most cabbies will immediately ask where you are from and, on hearing London, raise the usual questions about Tony Blair and Iraq. Seven years after [...]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period [...]