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Jul

2022

Russia says it’s stepping up operations as more rockets hit Ukraine

TOM BALMFORTH and MAX HUNDER RUSSIA has ordered its forces in Ukraine to step up operations, its defence ministry said, as rockets and missiles pounded the country in the latest of a series of bombardments that Kyiv says have killed dozens of people in recent days. In the latest strikes, missiles hit the northeastern town of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv region, killing three people including a 70-year-old woman and wounding three, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said. To the south, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said more than 50 Russian Grad rockets fell on the city of Nikopol, on the Dnipro River. Two…

Dec

2021

By The African Mirror

Violence escalates in India’s northeast after forces mistakenly fire on civilians

WORLD

ZARIR HUSSAIN PROTESTERS threw stones and set fire to areas around a camp belonging to Indian forces in the remote northeast, with one civilian shot dead in renewed violence a day after 14 people were killed by defence forces, officials said. At least 14 civilians and one member of the security forces were killed in Nagaland state on Saturday night after Indian forces mistook a group of labourers for militants and opened fire. More than a dozen civilians and some members of the security forces were also wounded in the incident and violence that followed, said a federal defence ministry…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

‘French strike killed civilians’

NEWS

PAUL LORGERIE and TIEMOKO DIALLO LOCAL officials in northern Mali have accused France's army of killing six civilians in an airstrike, but French forces said they had hit Islamist militants. The incident, which occurred on Thursday in the remote Gao region, is the second time this year that France's Operation Barkhane has been accused of killing civilians. The operation comprises more than 5,000 troops fighting militants in Mali and neighbouring countries. Barkhane said the strike had "neutralised" a group of militants 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of In Deliman. "This strike was ordered after a phase of surveillance and identification…