RAMALLAH: Israeli soldiers raided the offices of a Palestinian newspaper here yesterday, ordering them to stop printing publications by Hamas, managers said. “Officers informed us that Israel would not allow the printing and distribution of Falastin, Al Resala, and Al Istiqlal,” three Hamas newspapers, the Al Ayyam’s managers said. Al Ayyam has been printing the papers since early this month. The soldiers threatened to take “concrete steps” towards stopping Falastin, Al Resala and Al Istiqlal being printed at Al Ayyam offices, the statement said. .
Iraq attacks kill 63; 2014 toll tops 4,000
BAGHDAD: Attacks across Iraq, including a spate of car bombs in Baghdad, killed 63 people yesterday, the latest in a months-long surge in violence that has left more than 4,000 dead this year. A suicide car bomb exploded in Kadhimiyah, north Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 50. Three other car bombs went off in the Amin, Sadr City and Jihad districts, killing eight more people. Elsewhere in and around the capital, gun attacks and explosions killed three people. In north Iraq, a series of 11 bombings in Tuz Khurmatu killed five people. Three others died in a spate of attacks in Kirkuk and Nineveh.
4 killed in Tunisia
TUNIS: Suspected Islamist gunmen killed four policemen at the family home of Tunisia’s interior minister, officials said yesterday, describing it as a “revenge” attack for progress in the fight against jihadists. The overnight assault on Lotfi Ben Jeddou’s home at Kasserine, in the western border region, was reminiscent of violence in 2013, when two politicians were assassinated and jihadists killed 20 security force members. The assault by about a dozen gunmen shortly before midnight left dead four policemen and wounded two, interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said.
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