Tag: Deaths

LONDON - About 1,000 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the British government said in a human rights report published on Thursday.
In a quarterly update on human rights in Libya covering the period since an uprising began against Gaddafi's rule, Britain's Foreign Office said it was appalled by reports of serious human rights violations during the conflict.
"Whilst there has been no official

KABUL - Last year was the deadliest yet for civilians in the Afghan war with a 15 percent jump in the death toll, the UN said in a report on Wednesday which laid bare the conflict's impact on ordinary people. The 2,777 deaths underscore the level of violence in the country as foreign troops prepare to start handing control of security to Afghan forces in some areas from July ahead of a full transition due by 2014.
Insurgents were responsible for 75 percent of all civilian

ASADABAD - Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily criticised foreign forces Wednesday on civilian deaths, warning against daily killing after officials said nine children died in an air strike. Karzai told the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, which has 140,000 troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, that it could face "huge problems" if mistaken civilian deaths did not stop.
His statement came after an Afghan police chief said nine children died in an air

KABUL - International forces admitted Wednesday that they accidentally killed nine Afghan civilians in an air strike while their commander, General David Petraeus, said he was "deeply sorry for this tragedy." Petraeus said he has ordered all helicopter crews to be re-briefed on the need to keep civilian casualties "to the absolute minimum" and warned that troops could face disciplinary action over Tuesday's attack in Kunar province.

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan batsman Chamara Silva is likely to miss his team's opening World Cup match, due to a death in his family, an official said Thursday. Silva left the team hotel in Colombo early Thursday, shortly after his elder sister Nelum Anusha Silva passed away, Sri Lanka media manager Brian Thomas said.
Team manager Anura Tennakoon's father, P.B. Tennakoon, also passed away early Thursday, Thomas said. The funeral takes place on Thursday. Tennakoon is currently in Dhaka

KARACHI - A team of French Cetacean experts headed by Francois Xavier Pelletier arrived in Sindh to investigate the reasons behind the recent mortalities of the rare Indus blind dolphin in Sukkur region and also to find out the possible threats to these endangered and unique dolphins.
In his initial report, the French experts said after analysing circumstantial evidence that the causes of death of these dolphins were either net entanglement or chemical poisoning. A pertinent

KARACHI - A significant drop in newborn deaths can be achieved by improving the public health system in Pakistan and the intervention could be widely applicable in countries around the world with high newborn mortality rates, says a new study.
The research trial was carried out by Aga Khan University's (AKU) Division of Women and Child Health (DWCH) in partnership with the Health Ministry, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives programme.

KARACHI - A significant drop in newborn deaths can be achieved by improving the public health system in Pakistan and the intervention could be widely applicable in countries around the world with high newborn mortality rates, says a new study.
The research trial was carried out by Aga Khan University's (AKU) Division of Women and Child Health (DWCH) in partnership with the Health Ministry, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives

KABUL - International troop deaths in Afghanistan topped 700 in 2010, an independent website said Tuesday, with US military chiefs reportedly pushing to expand special operations ground raids into Pakistan.
The number of coalition forces killed fighting the Taliban this year - already the deadliest in the nine-year war - now stands at 702, around a third higher than last year, according to an AFP tally based on iCasualties.org. US troops account for 70 percent of the deaths and

SRINAGAR: Two people were killed on Saturday when their truck overturned in Indian-held Kashmir after anti-India protesters stoned it, police said on the first day of US President Barack Obama's tour of the country.
Four people have now been killed in Kashmir by stone pelters since protests against Indian-rule started in early June. A police statement said that the incident occurred in southern Shopian district on Saturday when "miscreants were enforcing a strike and resorting to