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‘Afghan MSF survivors’ call for US troops trial

  Kunduz / AFP Survivors of a US air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan have called for those responsible to go on trial and dismissed an American military investigation that said the bombardment did not amount to a war crime. The attack on the hospital run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders in the city of Kunduz last October ...

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Hundreds protest outside Trump speech in California

  Burlingame / AFP Hundreds of demonstrators jostled with police in riot gear outside a California hotel where Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump gave a speech, forcing the candidate to duck into a back entrance. At one point, several dozen protesters broke through barricades and attempted to storm the hotel where the California Republican Party Convention was taking place on Friday, ...

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Brussels airport departure hall to partly reopen today

  Brussels / AFP The departure hall at Brussels airport, hit in March by a deadly double suicide bombing claimed by the IS group, will partly reopen on Sunday, the management said. The twin explosions on March 22 killed 16 people and devastated the departure hall, shattering the building’s glass facade, collapsing ceilings and destroying check-in desks. The airport was completely ...

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