by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2013 | World
Spain, Reuters—A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe’s worst rail disasters. Bodies covered in blankets lay next to the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 10, 2013 | World
Boston, Reuters—Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is due in court on Wednesday to face charges in the worst mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001, a crime that could bring the death penalty. The 19-year-old ethnic Chechen was...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 9, 2013 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A car bomb exploded in Beirut’s Bir Al-Abed district on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding several more, according to Lebanese security sources. Local television footage showed vehicles ablaze and clouds of black smoke hovering...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 2, 2013 | World
Kabul, AP—Taliban suicide attackers blew up a truck bomb early Tuesday at the gates of a NATO supplier’s compound in Kabul and sprayed gunfire at security personnel, killing five guards and two civilians, Afghan officials said. The morning attack was the latest...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 29, 2013 | World
Beijing, Reuters—More than a hundred people, riding motorbikes and wielding knifes, attacked a police station in China’s ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said on Saturday, in the latest unrest to hit the restive region in the past week....
