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 Protestors have called for the disbandment of the national electoral commission over allegations of bias and corruption
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A car bomb attack targeting a police bus has killed seven officers and four civilians in central Istanbul, officials say.
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A car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying Turkish police officers killed 11 people, Istanbul's governor said Tuesday.
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The second Palestinian that the Israeli military killed after a stabbing attack against soldiers in March was 'executed' while prone, an Israeli rights group said on Monday.
The left-leaning B''Tselem group, which documents Israeli violations in the West Bank, said in a statement that an Israeli soldier shot Palestinian attacker Ramzi al-Qasrawi in the head while he lay on the ground with injuries from a prior gunshot, according to two Palestinian eyewitnesses, Nur Abu ‘Eishah and Amani Abu ‘Eishah.
Another Israeli soldier, Sgt. Elor Azaria, is on trial for the alleged killing of Qasrawi''s fellow attacker, Abdel Fatal al-Sharif, after footage showed him cocking his gun and shooting Sharif in the head while he laid prone on the floor following the attack in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The incident divided the Israeli public and the country''s political elite, with ultranationalist and far-right Israelis protesting against the government and military''s decision to allow Azaria to be prosecuted, alleging that the soldier was doing his duty.
The Israeli military denied B''Tselem''s claims and the accounts of the two eyewitnesses, saying that the soldier fired the fatal shots as Qasrawi carried out his attack.
'The claims by the B''Tselem organization are inconsistent with the findings of the operational investigation and conflict with the information the IDF has about this incident,' the army said in a statement.
'The shots fired at the terrorist were carried out in order to eliminate the threat while he was attacking the soldiers with a knife.'
The new allegation comes after the Israeli military lifted travel restrictions on the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, allowing them to take testimonies from eyewitnesses.
Sarit Michaeli, spokesperson for B''Tselem, told Newsweek that the two eyewitnesses are volunteers for the group and had filmed 'sections' of the incident involving Qasrawi, but had not captured the moment an Israeli soldier killed him.
She says that the Israeli military police 'contacted one of them at least' and will meet with at least one of the eyewitnesses to have their version of events checked by the authorities. The eyewitnesses are adamant about what happened and are willing to continue with their testimonies despite the threat of prosecution if they are caught lying, Michaeli adds.
'We are convinced that they have it because we know that virtually every meter of Hebron city center is covered with military security cameras,' she says. 'The question is whether they will release it.'
Israeli authorities have released many clips of attacks by Palestinians against Israeli authorities but in some cases they have withheld the footage. She says that the Israeli authorities have the ability to confirm or deny the eyewitness accounts with the CCTV footage as both men 'are describing a particular sequence.'
According to Michaeli, the eyewitnesses allege that the sequence proceeded as follows: two Palestinians attack a soldier; a soldier shoots Qasrawi; Sharif runs away; an Israeli soldier runs after Sharif and shoots him before coming back to shoot the first assailant Qasrawi while he lay on the floor.
The Israeli military has an open-fire policy that allows soldiers to fire on assailants if they pose mortal danger. Michaeli says that B''Tselem''s interpretation is that 'if [an attacker] is on the floor, that does not mean you are entitled to continue shooting to kill.'
As the trial of Azaria continues, more details have started to emerge about the incident. The IDF''s main investigator charged last week that an ambulance driver who had arrived at
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At least two protesters die and five are injured after Kenyan police open fire to disperse crowds in the western city of Kisumu, a local reporter tells the BBC.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed offensive to retake the Islamic State-held northern Syrian city of Manbij has displaced some 20,000 civilians and could uproot about 216,000 more if it continues, a U.N. humanitarian agency said on Monday.
Syrian fighters have surrounded Manbij from three sides as they press the onslaught against the jihadists near the Turkish border, a spokesman for the fighters said on Monday.
The report by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was possible people would 'face impediments' to moving out of IS-controlled areas and they had a critical need for shelter, drinking water, food and health care.
Civilians were mainly moving north toward nearby towns and to the Jarablous border crossing with Turkey or west toward areas held by other rebel groups, while lesser numbers had gone south to villages along the Euphrates River.
OCHA said newly uprooted people might try to head toward Al-Bab or Azaz, two towns west of Manbij, or south to the Maskanah plain close to Lake Assad.
Offensives aimed at rolling back Islamic State insurgents around Tabqa could also trigger displacement, OCHA said. Tabqa, close to the Euphrates Dam at the other end of Lake Assad from Manbij, is the apparent target of a Russian-backed offensive by Syrian pro-government forces.
The OCHA report gave no figures or details of potential displacement caused by that battle.
Both the U.S.- and Russian-backed assaults appear to threaten the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, its capital in Syria, and both began last week shortly after the Iraqi army attempted to storm IS-held Falluja in Iraq.
A spokesman for U.S.-backed forces said on Monday IS militants had been fleeing Manbij with their families as the Syria Democratic Forces advanced to within 6 km (4 miles) in an attack that has killed more than 150 jihadists.
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The memory of NPR photojournalist David Gilkey, who was killed on assignment in Afghanistan on Sunday, lives on through his most stirring works.
Gilkey, 50, died alongside NPR's Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna, 38, when the Afghan army unit they were traveling with came under attack.
The celebrated journalist put a human face on some of the world's greatest devastations and conflicts, from famine in Somalia to apartheid atrocities in South Africa.
'It's not just reporting. It's not just taking pictures,' Gilkey told NPR after covering the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. 'It's, 'Do those visuals, do the stories, do they change somebody's mind enough to take action?''
Scroll down to take a look at some of Gilkey's most evocative photos:
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Five people, three of them Jordanian intelligence officers, are killed in an attack at a Palestinian refugee camp near the capital, Amman.
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 The NPR photojournalist and his Afghan colleague killed in Afghanistan on Sunday died on the first day of an embed with local troops, highlighting the risks for reporters in a country where increasing amounts of territory are off-limits.
Photographer David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, an Afghan journalist working as a translator, were killed in a Taliban ambush shortly after joining Afghan troops in Helmand province, one of the most volatile areas in the country.
The NPR team, including Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva, had just spent several days with coalition troops, including U.S. special forces, before they went over to an Afghan unit, said Colonel Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for the NATO-led military coalition.
The team spent Sunday morning in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah interviewing local officials, according to Shakil Ahmad Tasal, a public affairs officer for the 205th Corps who accompanied the NPR team during the drive.
NPR photojournalist David Gilkey is pictured at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in a May 29 handout photo.
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The team carried a letter from the Afghan Ministry of Defence, directing the soldiers to escort them to the town of Marjah, roughly 30 km (18 miles) away, he said.
While Lashkar Gah has remained in government control, some surrounding areas of Helmand have been under serious pressure from Islamist militants from the Taliban insurgency.
Earlier this year in Marjah, U.S. forces conducted several air strikes to help beleaguered Afghan troops, and a U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed and two others were wounded during a Taliban attack.
On Sunday afternoon, a convoy of six lightly armoured Humvees, which also carried an Afghan general, was nearing Marjah when Taliban gunmen opened fire, pelting the vehicles with small arms and rocket fire.
'We were taking very heavy fire,' Tasal told Reuters.
The Humvee carrying Tamanna and Gilkey was hit by a shell and caught fire, killing the journalists and the soldier driving the vehicle, according to witnesses and NPR.
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A gunfight raged for at least 30 minutes before coalition and Afgh
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The president-elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has called on the country''s citizens who own guns to shoot and kill drug dealers, promising to award them with medals.
Addressing a large crowd in the southern city of Davao, where he is the mayor, Duterte on Saturday spoke about his war on crime and said that the government will need help from society, not just from his security forces.
'Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun, you have my support,' he said. 'Shoot him and I''ll give you a medal.'
He said that if a drug dealer resisted arrest or refused to be detained or questioned and threatened citizens, then 'you can kill him.'
The future Filipino leader said that police were themselves implicated in the illegal drugs trade in the country. He said authorities became embroiled because of 'extreme greed or extreme need.'
He said he would help some officers who had become tempted because of family reasons such as the death of a loved one, but criminals 'will also be dealt with by me,' he added. 'I''ll have you killed.'
Duterte has made a series of controversial statements in his presidential campaign, joking that 'the mayor should have been first' when talking about a 36-year-old Australian woman who was raped and shot dead in 1989.
He has called himself a 'womanizer,' claiming to have three girlfriends and said that journalists 'won''t be killed if you don''t do anything wrong,' suggesting that some journalists deserved to be assassinated.
Of one of his journalist critics, Jun Pala, who was killed in 2003, Duterte said that 'he was a rotten son of a bitch. He deserved it.'
Duterte essentially secured the presidency in a landslide victory last month and he will be sworn into office on June 30.
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Children killed by bombs. Suicides of people who can bear no more. These are some of the harrowing accounts of war in Falluja.
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A woman died after a shark attack on Australia's western coast Sunday — becoming the second person to be killed by a shark there in a week.
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