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“Mother of All Bombs” explosion on Afghan territory damaged houses in Pakistan

7 years ago

An explosion of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb, known as the “Mother of All Bombs”, dropped on April 13th by the United States Air Force in the Afghan province of Nangarhar, caused damage of residential buildings on the Pakistani side of the border, as Pakistani newspaper “Dawn” reported on April 16th.
The blast from the bomb explosion damaged houses located in the Kurram Tribal Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, as well as mosques in the area, the newspaper’s correspondent reported from the scene.

Spanish LGBT activists call for protest against “concentration camps” in Chechnya

7 years ago

For the first time this information was published on 1 April in Novaya Gazeta, which described certain reports by victims of persecution in Chechnya for solely being suspected to have a nontraditional sexual orientation who, according to the authors, “hardly had any chances to survive”.
LGBT activists of the Western countries responded promptly and submitted an application to the authorities for peaceful protests in front of the Russian embassy in Madrid, which are expected to gather about 500 participants.
According to a journalist investigation by the Izvestia newspaper published in September 2015, Novaya Gazeta (along with the Caucasian Knot website) received direct support in 2012 from the government of the Netherlands. This is evidenced by a report published on the Dutch government’s official website. The management of the newspaper confirmed that they received this financial support.

ANNA-News journalists wounded in Syria

7 years ago

Journalists came under fire from ISIL (banned in Russia) militants while boarding a helicopter. Shrapnel seriously wounded Igor Dimitriev; both legs and his abdomen were hit. Igor Blokhin was wounded in the right arm. A second shell fragment was stopped by video camera battery, which was in his chest pocket. The militants’ attack was caught on by video.
The wounded journalists were evacuated to the Syrian city of Qamishli. As the agency reported, “they say, they are fine.”