“The US government has issued a travel alert warning its citizens that South Africa faces a heightened risk of terrorism during the World Cup. It says that large-scale public events present an attractive target. ‘There is a heightened risk that extremist groups will conduct terrorist acts within South Africa in the near future,’ the US [...]
“At least 56 bodies have been pulled out of the mangled wreckage where two trains crashed in eastern India early Friday in an incident linked to Maoist rebels. About 115 people were injured when 13 cars of the Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Express derailed, capsized on a paralell track and were slammed by a cargo train, [...]
A 7.4 quake off the South Pacific island of Vanuatu prompted a tsunami warning for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia (Reuters)
“North Korea reacted to a South Korean anti-submarine exercise early Thursday by saying it would meet ‘confrontation with confrontation’ and war with ‘all-out war,’ according to North Korean state-run media. ‘Now that the puppet group challenged the DPRK [North Korea] formally and blatantly, the DPRK will react to confrontation with confrontation, and to a war [...]
“A bombing outside a planned performance by a dance company from the restive Russian republic of Chechnya left six people dead and more than 40 wounded on Wednesday, state media reported. The bomb went off outside a community center in the southwestern Russian city of Stavropol, according to the Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor’s [...]