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Duterte offers kill bounty for rebels to save on war costs
Associated Press, Published on 15/02/2018
» MANILA: The Philippine president has offered a nearly $500 bounty for each communist rebel killed by government forces to save on anti-insurgency costs and says insurgents are easier to hit than birds because they have bigger heads.
Trump says he'll fire missiles at Syrian 'Gas Killing Animal' Assad
Associated Press, Published on 11/04/2018
» BEIRUT: A senior Russian lawmaker on Wednesday morning warned the United States that Russia would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, but US President Donald Trump then tweeted that "missiles are coming" and called Syrian President Bashar Assad a "Gas Killing Animal".
Militants storm security compound in Yemen, kill 5
Associated Press, Published on 05/11/2017
» SANAA, Yemen: Militants set off a large car bomb outside a security headquarters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden early Sunday before storming the compound and placing snipers on the roof, officials said, adding that at least five Yemeni soldiers were killed.
Prosecutor confirms Croat war criminal took poison
Associated Press, Published on 30/11/2017
» A Dutch prosecutor told The Associated Press that preliminary tests show that a container from which a Croat war criminal drank shortly before dying contained a deadly chemical.
'Mission Accomplished' in Syria, Trump declares
Associated Press, Published on 14/04/2018
» WASHINGTON: Allied missiles struck at the heart of Syrian chemical weapons arsenal in a show of force and resolve aimed at punishing the Assad government for a suspected poison gas attack against civilians and deterring the possible future use of such banned weapons.
Rights group: Saudi-led airstrikes kill Yemeni children
Associated Press, Published on 12/09/2017
» CAIRO -- An international rights group says the Saudi-led coalition waging an air campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels in the north are killing children in what amounts to war crimes.
Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dies at 93
Associated Press, Published on 04/08/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's UN-assisted genocide tribunal says Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, has died. He was 93.
Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director
Associated Press, Published on 07/06/2017
» BERLIN -- A civil rights group is asking German authorities to issue an arrest warrant for the recently appointed deputy director of the CIA over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects 15 years ago.
Bangkok police shut down journalists' panel on Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 11/09/2018
» Police in Bangkok shut down a forum organised by foreign journalists to discuss whether senior military officers in Myanmar should face justice for alleged human rights abuses committed by their forces against Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities.
VP accepts Duterte's offer for her to play role in drug war
Associated Press, Published on 06/11/2019
» MANILA: The vice president of the Philippines on Wednesday accepted President Rodrigo Duterte's offer for her to play a lead role in his deadly crackdown against drugs, even though she's been critical of the campaign and has been warned it could be a political ploy to destroy her.