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Border skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia flared for a second day in an ongoing dispute over an ancient Hindu temple, a Thai military official said Wednesday.
There were several exchanges of gunfire overnight, according to Col. Sansern Kaewkumnerd, a Thai military spokesman, who said the exchanges were brief.
Some hand grenades were thrown and one Thai soldier was injured, he said.
More than 200 people died in a rebel attack in south Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state last week, a senior southern official said on Tuesday, nearly double an earlier death toll.
“We counted 201 casualties. I sadly helped to participate in burying some of the bodies,” Stephen Kuol, Jonglei’s state minister for education, told AFP.
Kuol had just returned from a government assessment mission to Fangak county in northern Jonglei, where the fighting took place.
At least nine Somali civilians have been killed after fresh clashes between Somali Government troops backed by African Union troops and al-Shabaab fighters.
Clashes broke out in the southern sector of Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu, on Monday, a Somaliweyn correspondent reported.
Somaliland forces based in the village of Kalshale in Buhodle region of East Somaliland came under a were surprise attack by SSC militia from three different sides in the early mornings on Monday. The fighting erupted early hours after morning prayers and has continued for four hours before the fighting stopped.
Nuh Taani, Somaliland armed forces chief General told local media in Hargeisa the SSC militia were heavily-armed however the army was ready and responded with heavy artillery and machine guns.
The top military command of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army on Thursday said repelled forces loyal to General George Athor from Fangak County, Jonglei State, following a clash between the two armed forces on Wednesday and Thursday in the area.
Dok James Puok, spokesman of the rebel group in an interview with Sudan Tribune from Juba claimed Wednesday that their forces captured Fangak County from SPLA forces after launching an attack on their operational outposts in three different locations.
The Sultanate of Oman became the 75th country to recognize Kosovo’s independence on Friday by forging diplomatic relations with the government in Prishtina.
The Republic of Kosovo has established diplomatic relations with the Sultanate of Oman”, Kosovo’s deputy foreign minister Vlora Citaku, told reporters.
Russia’s most wanted terrorist, Doku Umarov, has claimed he was the mastermind behind January’s bombing at Domodedovo Airport, which took the lives of 36 people and injured more than 180.
Umarov made the claims in a video message posted on an extremist website. In an earlier video message Umarov warned of more terrorist acts to follow, saying that Russia is in for a year “of blood and tears.” Umarov backs the idea of independent Muslim state in the North Caucasus that would include Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and some neighboring regions.