Islamabad, Pakistan – At about 12:30pm (07:30 GMT) on Tuesday, Khalid Khan, a 25-year-old lawyer, was waiting for his lunch with his friend, Fawad Khan, at the cafeteria of Islamabad’s District Judicial Complex.
Suddenly, a loud boom shook the…
Category: 4. World
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How jihadists have paralysed an entire country
Chris EwokorBBC Africa’s West Africa correspondent
AFP/GettyThese tanker drivers on the Ivory Coast-Mali border wait by their vehicles for a military escort In Bamako, Mali’s capital city, the familiar sounds of car engines and horns have been…
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Benedict Garman,BBC Verify and
Barbara Metzler,BBC Verify
BBCIsrael has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images…
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Taliban orders women to wear burkas to access hospitals, MSF says
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil – to enter public health facilities in the western city of Herat, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)…
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