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Speak out against US injustice and support cops, says Biden

  Washington / AFP Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday praised the five Dallas cops slain at a demonstration against police brutality, and also urged Americans to rally against disparities in the US criminal justice system. The message comes after days of marches in US cities over the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in ...

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More than 100 killed in South Sudan gunfire

  NAIROBI / AP Soldiers have brought scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan’s capital after gunfire erupted throughout Juba on Friday evening, a doctor at the hospital said on Saturday, as panicked residents worried of a return to civil war. The doctor said a total count of the dead was not available because soldiers were not allowing ...

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4 killed, 60 injured as troops, protesters clash after rebel leader’s death in Kashmir

  SRINAGAR / AFP At least four protesters were killed and 60 injured in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday after thousands defied a curfew following the death of a top rebel commander, officials said. Clashes spread across the disputed territory as protesters angry at the killing on Friday of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) leader Burhan Wani torched police stations and threw rocks at ...

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