Month: October 2017

A suicide bomber killed 15 Afghan army trainees as they were leaving their base in Kabul on Saturday, the defence ministry said, in the latest deadly attack in the capital. “This afternoon when a minibus carrying army cadets was coming out of the military academy, a suicide bomber on foot targeted them, martyring 15 and wounding four,” defence ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told AFP. Kabul Crime Branch chief General Mohammad Salim Almas said police have launched an investigation into the attack which happened in the west of the city. “The…

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that a global ban on nuclear weapons can be achieved in the future. Putin said on Thursday at the Valdai forum for international policy experts in the Black Sea city of Sochi that total nuclear disarmament is a possibility that Russia would welcome. He said Russia would “want it and will be striving to achieve that.” Putin noted that new precision weapons now under development could be just as devastating as nuclear weapons. He said Russia is also working on such weapons. The…

British Prime Minister Theresa May pressed European Union leaders on Thursday for a Brexit deal she can “defend” at home as her counterparts said at a summit in Brussels that there were encouraging signs of progress in the talks. May appealed for “urgent” movement at a summit dinner, the night before her 27 counterparts were set to decide that there had not been enough progress on divorce issues to open trade discussions until at least December. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EU’s most powerful figure, said however that there were…