An emergency drill involving 13 ships and a helicopter was held Thursday morning at seas near Sansha in southern China’s island province of Hainan, the city’s marine bureau said. It is the first comprehensive emergency drill on such large scale after Sansha was established in 2012. The drill included air-sea search and rescue, emergency treatment and sea fire-fighting. Two cargo ships “collided” near Sansha and left seven mariners missing. Fire broke out on one of…
Posts published in “Day: July 16, 2016”
It’s a sign of the times that news of a truck plowing into a crowded street makes us immediately suspect Islamist terrorism. But after Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino, Orlando, Istanbul, Dhaka and Baghdad, what else should we think about a truck killing scores of revelers celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France? Jihad has become the default assumption of our age. As we went to press late Thursday, French officials were reporting at least 77 dead…
Documents uncovered by Rahmatullah Nabil, former chief of Afghan Spy Agency—the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – shows that the money provided by the U.S government to the Pakistani military for fighting terrorism is in fact spent by Pakistan’s Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) for promoting and supporting terrorism. The documents also show that Pakistan strikes only those insurgents who threatens its interests. Nabil called on President Ashraf Ghani to provide clear definitions of Afghanistan’s friends and…