Wednesday, 6 January, 2016
Yemeni security officials say the Saudi-led coalition has intensified airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, targeting Shiite rebels known as Houthis.
The officials said Wednesday the airstrikes targeted rebel positions in Sanaa, including those at the presidential palace and the airport. They say at least 20 Houthis have been killed in the strikes since Tuesday. The officials, who are independent in the conflict that has torn Yemen apart, spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
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North Korea has detonated what it claims to be a hydrogen bomb. Following the fourth nuclear test on Wednesday at its nuclear site, the North said in a statement that its nuclear program is only a defensive strategy against the United States. Citing a smaller-than-expected explosive yield, Seoul is suspicious of Pyongyang’s H-bomb claim.
Kim Bum-soo reports.
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Congolese police on Thursday said they have arrested 32 people on charges of attacking the international airport in Goma, capital of north-eastern North Kivu province.
Fighters belonging to a new rebel group headed by a former regional politician, Celestin Malonga, were pushed back on Monday by the army and members of the presidential guard who were based at the airport.
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The New Justice and Equality Movement (NJEM), a breakaway faction from the mother rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) that fights the Sudanese Government in Darfur, has declared it was joining the ongoing national dialogue after Khartoum had consented to a number of preconditions it set earlier.
NJEM leader Mansour Arbab Younis said the Sudanese government “accepted most of the conditions the movement had put forward , foremost the extension of the ceasefire and the extension of the national dialogue duration, to allow others to join the dialogue initiative”.
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Tuesday, 5 January, 2016
Fierce clashes have reportedly erupted between Taliban and Islamic State (IS) fighters in eastern Afghanistan, leaving dozens of people dead on both sides.
Afghan police reported Tuesday the fighting in the remote Batikot and Chaparhar districts of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan, began after hundreds of Taliban insurgents mounted a big attack on IS bases earlier this week.
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