Mapigano Nigeria 185 wafariki dunia

 22 Aprili, 2013 - Saa 22:39 GMT

Wapiganaji wa kundi wa Kiislamu la Boko Haramu

Mapigano ya wapiganaji wa kiislamu na vikosi vya usalama nchini Nigeria yameripotiwa kutokea tangu usiku wa Ijumaa na kuendelea kwa muda mrefu ambapo jumla ya watu 185 wanaripotiwa kufariki dunia katika mapigano hayo yaliyotokea Kaskazini Mashariki mwa nchi hiyo.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa rasmi iliyotolewa na Serikali ya mji wa Baga na Ofisa Serikali hiyo Bwana Lawan Kole.
Inasemekana kuwa watu wengi zaidi wamefariki dunia ambapo bado juhudi za kutafuta maiti nyingine zinaendelea. Brigedia Jenarali Austin Edokpaye amewaambia maafisa wakuu wa serikali kuwa,wapiganaji walitumia silaha kali na maroketi yenye mabomu mazito kupambana na vikosi vya jeshi.
Aidha bwana Edokpaye aliongeza kuwa,wapiganaji hao walikuwa wakitumia raia kama kinga yao kwa kujibanza karibu na makazi ya watu ambapo walijua vikosi vya jeshi visingeweza kujibu mapigo.
Nigeria imekuwa ikikabiliwa na vifo vya raia wengi tangu kuibuka kwa vikundi vya wapiganaji wa kiislamu mwaka 2010 ambapo vingi vimejikita Kaskazini mwa nchi hiyo.

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Kesi yaandaliwa dhidi ya mshukiwa Boston

 22 Aprili, 2013 - Saa 09:34 GMT

Maombolezi kwa waathiriwa wa mashambulizi ya Boston

Vyombo vya habari nchini Marekani vinasema kuwa mshukiwa wa mashambulizi ya Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ambaye yuko hospitalini katika hali mbaya, amekuwa akijibu maswali ya majasusi kwa kuandika.

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Hata hivyo hilo bado halijathibitishwa, lakini ripoti zinasema kuwa maswali hayo yanahusiana na mabomu mengine pamoja na wale alioshirikiana nao.
Ripoti za awali zilionya kuwa Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ambaye ana majeraha ya risasi kwenye shingo lake, huenda asitoe ushahidi kwa kuongea na majasusi hao.
Wakati huohuo, viongozi wa mashtaka wanaanda kesi dhidi ya mshukiwa wa pili wa mashambulizi ya Boston Marathon Dzhokhar Tsarnaev huku maelezo zaidi kuhusu kukamatwa kwake yakijitokeza.
Ikiwa atashtakiwa kwa kutumia silaha za maangamizi kwa lengo la kuwaua watu, huenda akakabiliwa na hukumu ya kifo.
Tsarnaev yuko hospitalini akiwa hawezi kuongea kwa sababu ya jeraha katika shingo lake.

Serikali imesema kuwa majasusi hao watamhoji mshukiwa bila ya kumweleza haki zake ambazo zinamruhusu akae kimya hadi atakaposhauriana na wakili wake. Hata hivyo majasusi walikanusha ripoti kuwa walimhoji.

Awali meya wa Boston, Tom Menino, alisema kuwa hawana uhakika ikiwa wataweza kumhoji mshukiwa
"Tuna maswali mengi na yote yanahitaji kujibiwa," alisema gavana wa Massachusetts Deval Patrick,akinukuliwa na shirika la habari la Reuters.
Mshukiwa alikamatwa jioni Ijumaa baada ya msako mkali dhidi yake wakati ambapo nduguye mkubwa na mshukiwa mwingine waliuawa.
Polisi wanaamini kuwa Dzhokhar huenda alimuua nduguye mwenyewe kwa kumgonga na gari alipokuwa anatoroka polisi Alhamisi usiku.
Shambulizi hilo lilisababisha vifo vya kijana mmoja mwenye umri wa miaka minane na wanawake wawili na kisha kuwajeruhi wengine wengi ikikisiwa kuwa walikuwa zaidi ya 180.

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Officials identify firefighters killed in deadly Texas blast

Reuters/Reuters - Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Jason Reyes walks past the site of a housing complex which was destroyed by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, near Waco, Texas April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Michael Ainsworth/Pool

By Tim Gaynor and Colleen Jenkins

WEST, Texas (Reuters) - Texas officials released the names of four volunteer firefighters on Sunday killed in a deadly blast in this close-knit Texas town, as authorities identified the center but not the cause of last week's deadly fertilizer plant blast.

Among the dead named at a news conference outside city hall in West, Texas, were brothers Doug and Robert Snokhous, remembered by their family as "lifelong best friends" who lived half a mile from each other and worked together at an ironworks in nearby Waco.

"Doug and Robert could always be seen together, whether they were hunting, working on cars, golfing or cooking barbecue at the volunteer fire departments cook-off," their family said in a statement read to reporters.
"They were always together and we were always comforted that they were together at the end."

Uokozi ni mgumu kwenye tetemeko Uchina

 21 Aprili, 2013 - Saa 18:28 GMT

Wafanya kazi za uokozi wamekuwa wakipata shida kufika kwenye vijiji vya mbali milimani vilioko kusini-magharibi mwa Uchina, baada ya tetemeko la ardhi ambalo linalijulikana kuuwa watu 200 na kujeruhi zaidi ya 11,000.

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Wanajeshi 17,000 wametumwa huko kwenda kusaidia.
Tetemeko hilo lilitokea Jumamosi asubuhi karibu na mji wa Ya'an katika jimbo la Sichuan.
Waokozi wamekuwa wakijaribu kupanda barabara nyembamba zilizozongwa na maporomoko.
Lori moja la jeshi lilobeba wanajeshi 17 lilipinduka mlimani na kumuuwa mwanajeshi mmoja na kujeruhi wengine saba.
Magari ya kubeba wagonjwa yanawapeleka manusura katika kituo kwenye hospitali kuu mjini Ya'an.
Majeruhi wengi, baadhi yao wamevunjika viungo, wanatibiwa kwenye mahema yaliyowekwa nje ya hospitali.
Tetemeko hili lilikuwa ni dogo likilinganishwa na lile la mwaka 2008 ambalo liliuwa watu 70,000.
Lakini kwa sababu ya shida za kuwafikia manusura na vitetemeko vidogo vinavoendelea wakati wote, idadi ya waliokufa inaweza kuongezeka.

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Mshukiwa wa Boston hawezi kuhojiwa

 21 Aprili, 2013 - Saa 17:12 GMT

Meya wa Boston amesema wakuu wa Marekani pengine hawataweza kabisa kumhoji mshukiwa wa shambulio la bomu katika Boston marathon kwa sababu ya jinsi alivoumia.

Mshukiwa huyo, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, anatibiwa kwenye hospitali moja ya mjini Boston, ambayo ilieleza kuwa hali yake ni mbaya.
Alikamatwa Ijumaa wakati wa msako ambapo kaka ake aliuliwa na polisi.
Meya Tom Menino alipohojiwa na televisheni ya Marekani alisema anafikiri mashambulio hayo yalifanywa na ndugu hao wa kiume peke yao, na pengine hawakupanga kufanya mashambulio mengine.

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US to double aid to Syrian rebels following assurances

The United States is to double its aid to rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad after winning a written pledge that a future Syria will be democratic, non-sectarian and give “universal” rights to women.

 Syrian rebels march in a show of strength during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria Photo: AP

The extra $123 million in non-lethal military aid, possibly including armoured vehicles as well as body armour and night-vision goggles, was announced in the early hours of Sunday after the US secretary of state John Kerry and other foreign ministers met opposition leaders. There will also be USD25 million in civilian food aid.

While they spoke, battles were raging as the Assad regime attempted to retake areas around Damascus and near Homs with scores of casualties. Mr Kerry referred to the recent use of ballistic missiles against rebel territory by the regime, as well as suspected, localised use of chemical weapons.

"We are at a critical moment," he said. "The stakes could not be more clear: chemical weapons, the slaughter of people by ballistic missiles and other weapons of huge destruction, the potential of a whole country being torn apart into enclaves, the potential of sectarian violence."

Western allies have been urging the United States to take a "leadership role" on Syria, as the conflict becomes ever more bloody and locked in stalemate. President Barack Obama has been reluctant to be drawn in, and has vetoed proposals by both the state department and the Pentagon to arm the opposition, according to reports from Washington.

The opposition Syrian National Coalition went further yesterday, demanding the West launch drone missile attacks on President Assad's "ballistic missile and chemical weapon launch pads", and establish a no-fly zone, as it did in Libya.

Saudi Arabia deports 'irresistible' men deemed 'too handsome' to women

Three men were forcibly removed from an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia and subsequently sent back to the UAE after it was deemed that women could find them irresistible

Saudis take part in the traditional Arda dance or War dance during the Janadriyah Festival of Heritage and Culture in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Photo: Getty Images

 

The delegates from the United Arab Emirates were in attendance at the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, when religious police officers stormed the stand and evicted the men because “they are too handsome,” according to the Arabic language newspaper, Elaph.

“A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission [for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices] members feared female visitors could fall for them,” Elaph reported.

The UAE released an official statement indicating that the religious police were anxious over the unexpected presence of an unnamed female artist in the pavilion.

“Her visit to the UAE stand was a coincidence as it was not included in the programme which we had already provided to the festival’s management,” Saeed Al Kaabi, head of the UAE delegation to the festival, said in a statement.

It was not clear if the woman’s presence was related to the decision to evict the “handsome” Emirati men.

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Following the incident, Elaph said the festival’s management took swift action to deport the trio back to Abu Dhabi, capital of the Emirates.
With a majority Sunni Muslim population, Saudi Arabia is a deeply religious and ultraconservative society which forbids women from interacting with unrelated males and refuses to accord them with the same rights as men.
It is the only country in the world where women are banned from driving.
Change could be on the horizon, however, with billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal recently expressing his support for female drivers.
“The question of allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia will save more than 500,000 jobs in addition to the social and economic benefits,” the prince tweeted on Sunday.
It is estimated that eight million foreigners work in Saudi Arabia and thousands have been dismissed from their jobs and then deported as part of a government effort against foreigners who live and work illegally in the country.

 

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