News in Brief
HERAT (Press TV) An explosion has rocked Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, leaving one civilian dead and five others, including a police force member, wounded.
Herat police said the blast took place close to a compound belonging to the Afghan army on Herat’s Minarets Road on Saturday morning. Officials said the explosives were placed in a hand cart.
The Public Health Directorate in Herat said two of those injured in the explosion were in critical condition.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bears the hallmark of those carried out by members of the Taliban militant group.
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Belgian police arrested two men suspected of plotting a terror attack in Belgium as Europe remained on edge Saturday following a rising wave of bloodshed on the continent.
Police arrested two men, identified as Noureddine H. and his brother Hamza H., after house searches late Friday in Belgium’s French-speaking areas of Mons and Liege, federal prosecutors said.
"Both are suspected of planning a terrorist attack somewhere in Belgium,” a spokesman said in an English version of the statement. The French version referred to "planning attacks” in the plural.
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has called for an investigation into allegations that teenagers were abused at a juvenile detention center in the country’s north.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday that he would launch a Royal Commission after graphic footage emerged of teens being tear-gassed and stripped naked at a youth detention center in the Northern Territory.
Royal commissions are Australia’s highest form of inquiry.
The footage aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s investigative program "Four Corners” on Monday.
PESHAWAR (AP) — Flash floods triggered by monsoon rains swept away a bus carrying a wedding party Saturday in northwest Pakistan, killing people 21 people, an official said.
The spokesman for the local disaster management authority, Latifur Rehman, said the incident took place in the Landi Kotal tribal region bordering Afghanistan. At least four people were still missing and it was unclear whether the bride and groom were also traveling in the same bus.
Rehman said eight women were among those killed in the incident.
Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said in statement Saturday that as many as 55 people have been killed across Pakistan since the monsoon rains started in July.
Herat police said the blast took place close to a compound belonging to the Afghan army on Herat’s Minarets Road on Saturday morning. Officials said the explosives were placed in a hand cart.
The Public Health Directorate in Herat said two of those injured in the explosion were in critical condition.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bears the hallmark of those carried out by members of the Taliban militant group.
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Belgian police arrested two men suspected of plotting a terror attack in Belgium as Europe remained on edge Saturday following a rising wave of bloodshed on the continent.
Police arrested two men, identified as Noureddine H. and his brother Hamza H., after house searches late Friday in Belgium’s French-speaking areas of Mons and Liege, federal prosecutors said.
"Both are suspected of planning a terrorist attack somewhere in Belgium,” a spokesman said in an English version of the statement. The French version referred to "planning attacks” in the plural.
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has called for an investigation into allegations that teenagers were abused at a juvenile detention center in the country’s north.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday that he would launch a Royal Commission after graphic footage emerged of teens being tear-gassed and stripped naked at a youth detention center in the Northern Territory.
Royal commissions are Australia’s highest form of inquiry.
The footage aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s investigative program "Four Corners” on Monday.
PESHAWAR (AP) — Flash floods triggered by monsoon rains swept away a bus carrying a wedding party Saturday in northwest Pakistan, killing people 21 people, an official said.
The spokesman for the local disaster management authority, Latifur Rehman, said the incident took place in the Landi Kotal tribal region bordering Afghanistan. At least four people were still missing and it was unclear whether the bride and groom were also traveling in the same bus.
Rehman said eight women were among those killed in the incident.
Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said in statement Saturday that as many as 55 people have been killed across Pakistan since the monsoon rains started in July.