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  • American Made Bombs Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen

    a major supplier of weapons to the Saudis, including some implicated by human rights groups in the deaths Al-Matmah District, Jawf Province DATE Sept. 20, 2016 DEATHS 15 Part of a Raytheon-made GBU-12 bomb Al-Dhihar District, Ibb Province DATE Sept. 24, 2016 DEATHS 6 Mwatana researchers have chronicled The death toll had soared past 50,000, including 9,000 civilians, raising concerns among Mr. By the end of the year, the civilian death toll in Yemen had topped 12,000.

  • Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Sentenced to Death

    A jury has decided the gunman will receive the death penalty for killing 11 people at the Tree of Life who opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 and wounding seven others, will be sentenced to death District Court Judge Robert Colville, who is bound to impose the death penalty against the gunman. Jurors had to reach a unanimous decision to impose the death penalty or else the gunman would have received The panel had also deemed him to be eligible for the death penalty.

  • UN: 1,300 civilians killed in DRC violence, half a million flee

    About 1,300 civilians have been killed in separate conflicts involving armed groups and government forces "I am appalled by the increase in brutal attacks on innocent civilians by armed groups, and by the reaction Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and police (PNC) also allegedly killed 17 civilians during the same period by the main armed group, the ADF, which by May 31 had killed at least 514 civilians using machetes, The generalised and systematic nature of some of the attacks on civilians in both Ituri and North Kivu

  • Death Toll in Azerbaijan-Armenia Border Clashes Rises

    United Nations welcomes ceasefire after 176 soldiers killed in two days of fighting, which each side blames on the other. Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly traded blame for the fighting this week [File: Umit Bektas/Reuters] 15 Sep 2022 Azerbaijan says 71 of its troops have been killed this week during border clashes with Armenia, which marked the worst fighting between the rival neighbours since their 2020 war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenia said 105 of its soldiers died in the violence, which each side blames on the other. The flare-up threatened to drag Turkey, Azerbaijan’s key backer, and Armenia’s ally Russia into a wider conflict at a time of already high geopolitical tensions. A senior Armenian official said the two sides had negotiated a ceasefire, which took effect at 8pm local time (16:00 GMT) on Wednesday. The United Nations welcomed the ceasefire on Thursday. UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca said: “The international community must remain fully committed to a peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan and spare no effort to de-escalate the current tensions, bring the parties back to the negotiation table and help them achieve peace and stability in the region.” Armenia’s defence ministry said the situation along the shared border was quiet following the deal, and that no ceasefire violations were reported. There was no immediate comment from Azerbaijan on the reported agreement. A previous ceasefire brokered by Russia on Tuesday quickly failed . Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly traded blame for the fighting this week, which first broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning and has taken place in areas away from Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave that lies inside Azerbaijan but is mainly populated by ethnic Armenians. Armenian authorities have accused Baku of unleashing a number of unprovoked cross-border attacks, while Azerbaijani officials claim their forces responded to initial Armenian “provocations”. Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the battlefield accounts from either side. Tensions simmer The recent fighting has sparked fears of another full-fledged war between the ex-Soviet states, which have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The two countries fought a war over the contested region in late 2020 that killed more than 6,500 people in little more than six weeks. The conflict saw Azerbaijan successfully win back swathes of territory in and around Nagorno-Karabakh that had been controlled by ethnic Armenian forces backed by Yerevan since an earlier war in the area ended in 1994. Russia, a regional power broker, oversaw a ceasefire deal in November 2020 to end the fighting and deployed nearly 2,000 peacekeepers to the region as part of the agreement. Armenia has appealed to Moscow for assistance again this week following the latest clashes. Meanwhile, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signalled that his government is ready to recognise Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity in a future peace treaty, provided that it relinquishes control of areas in Armenia its forces have seized. “We want to sign a document, for which many people will criticise and denounce us and call us traitors, and they may even decide to remove us from office, but we would be grateful if Armenia gets a lasting peace and security as a result of it,” Pashinyan told Armenian legislators on Wednesday. But some in the opposition saw the statement as a sign of the prime minister’s readiness to cave in to Azerbaijani demands and recognise Azerbaijan’s sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh. Thousands of angry protesters quickly descended on the government’s headquarters, accusing Pashinyan of treason and demanding he step down. Protests were also held in other Armenian cities. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

  • Rape, abuse, death of girls at Guatemala home burned by fire

    Twenty-one more between the ages of 13 and 17 would die at local hospitals over the next few days.

  • ‘I Could Just Vanish’: In Kabul, Pocket Notes to Prevent Anonymous Death

    It can validate human existence — an identity marker ensuring that if violent death comes, it does not The constant threat of a sudden, brutal death has left many Afghans with a sense of despair and fatalism “When you lose people you know, you feel that you are next, and you feel death coming closer to you,” Shortly before his death, Mr. “The angel of death is flying over Afghanistan.”

  • Time is running out for civilians in Africa's Sahel region as attacks multiply

    Agency is alarmed over escalating violence in the Sahel region which has seen hundreds of innocent civilians latest attack on the Binedama village in central Mali’s volatile Mopti region, on June 5, killed 26 civilians "The continuing attacks on civilians in the Sahel which have crippled life in the border towns and areas displacement crises in the world, millions have fled indiscriminate attacks by armed groups against civilians

  • Poland to outlaw references to 'Polish death camps' in Holocaust bill

    votes to 23 (with two abstentions) early Thursday morning, also bans the use of terms such as "Polish death governments have been trying to persuade journalists and politicians to stop using the phrase 'Polish death In 2012, then US President Barack Obama used the phrase "Polish death camp" during a Medal of Freedom "When someone says 'Polish death camps,' it is as if there were no Nazis, no German responsibility, as The phrase "Polish death camp" is also often used in news reports about Auschwitz and other camps that

  • US Says Myanmar Makes Life for Rohingya 'A Death Sentence'

    Nikki Haley denounced Myanmar's government Tuesday for continuing to make life for Rohingya Muslims "a death state. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-02-13/us-says-myanmar-makes-life-for-rohingya-a-death-sentence

  • UN says death toll now 56 from clashes in Sudan’s Darfur

    The death toll from tribal violence in Sudan’s Darfur region climbed as sporadic clashes continued on Organization for the General Coordination of Camps for Displaced and Refugees via AP) CAIRO (AP) — The death A military-civilian government now rules the country.

  • Gang attack in Haiti leaves two deaths, more missing

    gang on Sunday in Ganthier , a commune about 19 miles east of Port-au-Prince, resulted in at least two deaths The Ganthier attack followed the release of a video on social media by gang leader Lanmò San Jou (Death On top of the attacks resulting in numerous deaths, forced displacements, and property damage, the Haitian

  • Zimbabwe opposition party supporter stoned to death

    The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, or CCC, party had publicized the death Thursday of Tinshe On Friday, witnesses told The Associated Press that Chitsunge was beaten and stoned to death as he tried Police said they have arrested 10 people in connection with Chitsunge’s death but gave no details about “It is not an election of political choices, but it’s an election of death or ZANU-PF,” Chamisa said. Zimbabwe has a history of violent elections and Chitsunge’s death was the first election-related killing

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