SEOUL / WAM Defence Expo Korea, which opens next week, is a key platform for Caracal to showcase its latest firearms, which utilise the latest concepts in tactical requirements, ergonomic design and cutting-edge manufacturing techniques in addition to offering the best technical solutions in the field of modern firearms. “Through our participation in Defence Expo Korea, we are proud …

  Libreville / AFP Police arrested 1,000 people as security forces fanned out across Gabon’s capital on Thursday after a night of riots and looting that erupted when President Ali Bongo was declared winner of disputed polls. Thousands of angry protesters poured onto the streets of Libreville late Wednesday, accusing the government of stealing the election after Bongo won a second …

  Berlin / AFP The father of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach a year ago, on Thursday denounced the world’s failure to stop the bloodshed in his home country. “The politicians said after the deaths in my family: Never again!” the bereaved father, Abdullah Kurdi, 41, told Germany’s Bild daily. “Everyone …