HOME AND ABROAD
Festivity Turned to Grief
Gunmen attacked a wedding convoy in Nigeria's northeaster state of Borno on November 2, killing more than 30 people including the groom in a suspected ambush, witnesses and survivors said Sunday. The attack happened on the notorious Bama-Banki road when the wedding party, including friends and relatives of the groom, was making its way back to the state capital Maiduguri after the ceremony in Michika, in nearby Adamawa State, witnesses said. Violent attacks are not uncommon in Borno, where an army offensive to drive out insurgents is under way.
34 Years Later
Thousands of Iranians shouted "Death to America" on November 4, as they demonstrated 34 years after Islamist students stormed the embassy compound in Tehran, holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. In this picture, Iranians stand under an anti-US poster bearing a picture of US President Barak Obama with a UN logo around his neck, holding a gun with a slogan which reads in Farsi "A smile for Killing" outside former US embassy in Tehran a demonstration to mark the 34th anniversary of the 1979 US embassy takeover.
Octogenarian Beats Up Bear
Despite coming face to face with a bear in a raspberry field in Kabardino-Balkaria in Russias's Caucasus region, 80 year old Russian shepherd, Yusuf Alchagirov lived to tell the tale. Alchagirov kicked, head-butted and tried to stab the bear, and was in turn thrown off a cliff by it, reports Russian news agency Ria Novosti. He survived four broken ribs, bite marks and bruises and was released from the hospital after a few days.
No Respite
A boat carrying almost 70 Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing sectarian tensions yesterday capsized off Myanmar's coast, police said, leaving dozens missing. The boat was believed to be taking Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's western state of Rakhine to Malaysia, where thousands of members of the Muslim minority have sought sanctuary since violent clashes with Buddhists erupted last year. Around 140,000 people — the majority of them Rohingya — were displaced by two waves of violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine last year that left some 200 people dead. (FILE PHOTO)
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