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Islamist groups launched new attacks against security forces in northern Nigeria, a day after nearly 40 people died in bloody clashes between police and a radical Islamic group in Bauchi. The BBC also reported a tally of ‘100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.’ [...]

Egyptian farmers tried to prevent the slaughtering of their pigs for reasons of preventing the spread of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, resulting in clashes with the police in a slum area in Cairo. Pig farmers threw stones and bottles at police officers who came to their farms along with health officials. The police responded [...]

The relations between India and Pakistan remain heated. Very recently, at least 19 people died in clashes between Islamic militants and Indian soldiers in the Kashmir region. The bloody confrontations have been lasting for nearly a week. The clashes began when the Indian army surrounded a group of heavily armed militants in the Shamsbari forest near [...]