Death toll from Russian missile strike in eastern Donetsk rises to nine with 82 injured; hotel, apartments destroyed
Pokrovsk, UkraneReuters Russian missiles struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk twice on Monday night, killing nine people, wounding scores and destroying apartments and a popular hotel, officials said. Rescuers work at a site of a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on 8th […]
Kabul hotel attack ends as three gunmen killed; two foreigners injured
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals in an attack that ended when at least three gunmen were killed by security forces, the Taliban-run administration said. Two foreigners were injured while trying to escape by jumping from the hotel balcony, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid […]
Somali troops overpower militants to end hotel siege
Mogadishu, SomaliaReuters Somali security forces stormed a hotel in the capital on Monday to end a near day-long siege by al-Shabaab militants who killed nine people at the building near the President’s residence in the capital, police said. Gunfire crackled from inside the hotel as the special forces fought the militants more than 12 hours […]
Breaking: Militants attack hotel used by officials in Somalia’s capital
Mogadishu, SomaliaReuters Islamist militants attacked a hotel used by government officials in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday evening, police and witnesses said. Al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, which controls large swathes of the country, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a statement that it was targeting the nearby presidential palace. “We were shaken by a huge […]
WOW! SOCIAL BUSINESSES TAKE TOURISTS OFF BEATEN PATH TO ‘SPREAD THE WEALTH’
SARAH SHEARMAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how tourism businesses like London’s Good Hotel as giving back to the community as well as making a profit…