News in Brief

Date: 11 March 2022 - 21:31

News ID: ۱۰۰۸۸۷

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan because of a “technical malfunction” during routine maintenance. “On 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile,” the government said in a statement. “It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Military investigations have found poor leadership, inadequate training and a “culture of complacency” among U.S. forces undermined efforts to fend off a 2020 attack by militants in Kenya that killed three Americans, U.S. officials familiar with the probes said. Two military reviews of the attack by al-Shabab militants are scathing in their conclusions that there were failures across the board at the Manda Bay air base, where senior military leaders said there was a “deeply rooted culture of a false sense of security.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A plane carrying former president Donald Trump was forced to make an emergency landing in New Orleans last weekend after suffering engine failure over the Gulf of Mexico. The details of the emergency landing, first reported by Politico, were confirmed by a person familiar with the incident who was not authorized to speak publicly about it and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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LONDON (Al-Jazeera) - At least 750 civilians were killed or executed in Ethiopia’s Amhara and Afar regions in the second half of 2021, the country’s rights body has said. In a report released on Thursday, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission also catalogued widespread abuses, including torture and gang rape and enforced disappearances. It said at least 403 civilians died and 309 were injured in air raids, drone attacks and heavy artillery fire since Tigrayan rebels fighting government forces launched an offensive into the neighboring regions of northern Ethiopia in July last year.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in the Jebel Moon area of Darfur in a militia attack, activists said. It comes after a similar attack killed 16 people earlier this week and just months after the area was rocked by violence late last year. Four villages were burned down in the attack, said the Coordinating Committee for Refugees and Displaced People in a statement.