More then 20 people were killed when a bomb went off inside a police station in Ingushetia, Southern Russia. The suicide attack happened in Nazran, the largest city in the largest city in Ingushetia injuring more then 60 people. Among the injured are 11 children who are still in the hospital recovering from injuries. The explosion happened at the time of a shift change and many police personal were present in the building compound. A suicide bomber drove a small Russian made truck loaded with explosives into the police station building.

This region has seen many bomb attacks and shooting in recent times and most have been targeted on police and government officials. In June the motorcade of Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was attacked by a suicide bomber. He is still recovering from injuries and has not yet returned to his office.

The Monday suicide attack can be rated as the deadliest in the recent months. Apart from the police station, surrounding buildings, houses and cars parked on the street have been damaged too. As the police men had lined in for an inspection during the shift change, the suicide bomber drove the truck into the police station gate. Officials have estimated that the truck was loaded with 20 kg of TNT explosive and the bomb explosion has been described of high intensity.

The city of Kabul woke up to a horrified dawn as it was hit by eight rockets on Tuesday. This is the first time in last five years that the Afghan capital was hit by so many rockets on such a short interval of time. According to the Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry spokesman, Najib Nikzad – there was not injuries or casualties in the Tuesday’s attack and the attack was to disrupt and derail the August 20 presidential elections.

The first explosion happened around 4 am. One of the rockets landed close to the U.S Embassy. The rockets were not targeted at any specific area of the capital and landed in different locations across the city.

US, NATO and Taliban forces have been fighting the Taliban insurgents who have asked to boycott the election process. For the NATO forces it has been a bad start to the month as they have already lost nine troops, not to forget July which was a record high month of casualties for the NATO forces.

Just yesterday there was a blast targeting the governor of a district of Herat province in which the District Police Chief lost his life. The blast happened in the City of Herat in Western Afghanistan killing 12 and injuring over 20 people.

Mohammed Yusuf, 39 leader of the Boko Haram the Nigerian version of Taliban has died in police custody; human right campaigners have called the killing unlawful. Boko Haram has been blamed for the unrest in north eastern Nigeria which has resulted in hundreds of people dead. The group like Taliban is against western education and wants to convert Nigeria into an Islamic state and also wants to implement a strict version of Islamic Sharia Law.

Mohammed Yusuf was killed in a shootout by the security forces when he tried to escape. This was confirmed to the Nigerian Television by Moses Anegbode, regional Asst. Inspector-General of Police.

This mass unrest in North Eastern Nigeria started on Sunday in Bauchi and then spread to the other towns. There have been several gun battles since Sunday between the Islamic militants and Government lead security forces. Hundreds of militants have tried to attack government and police buildings and have more then 300 people dead, but some estimate that the death toll could have even exceeded 600. Nigeria has a population of 150 million which is equally split with Muslims dominating the North and Christians dominating the South.

A hugely reverberating and destructive blast took place outside the paramilitary Civil Guard barracks located in Burgos, Northern Spain. The car bomb that exploded close to 0230 GMT shattered all glass over a large area, with the nearby structure facing considerable damage and pumping a hole in the ground. The splinters that flew have injured close to forty people, many of whom are civil guard agents and their kin.

The Interior Ministry official has charged ETA, the Basque separatist faction for plotting this heinous act, though they did not receive any prior warning regarding the bomb, quite contrasting to past ETA attacks. ETA in its long lasting battle for Basque independence has been found guilty of taking more than 800 lives. The faction concluded an armistice two years back and is believed to be pressurised by the detention of a large number of their senior holding leaders.

There were no injuries in the past car bomb that took off in Durango town located in Basque on 9th July. While the past month, ETA was accused of initiating a car bomb in Bilbao city that took the life of a police officer.

Afgan city Khost came under attack from Taliban fighters as thy attacked the police chief’s office. Many people heard sounds of explosions and gunfire in the main city complex with houses the main police station, attorney general’s office, courts and a local bank branch. Suicide bombers tried to enter the main police station. There is a fierce gun battle taking place and casualties are expected on both the sides. Police and army have taken position on the main roads of the city and as of now the city is empty. The Taliban fighters are armed with rockets and AK-47’s. The fighters have taken up position in the building and they are surrounded from all sides.

This is not the first time when Khost has come under attack from Taliban fighters. Earlier in May Taliban fighters had launched attacks on government buildings and killed seven people.

This region of Afghanistan has faced regular Taliban attacks. Gardez just 50 miles from Khost was attacked by Taliban fighters killing four security personal. In Gardez too the targets of attack were government buildings including police chief’s office, a police station, the intelligence directorate and the governor’s compound. In another attack in the city of Jalalabad a security personel was killed.

The police officials have stated that in Las Vegas, a two year old infant girl is in grave condition, post being shot at by her four year old brother. The Vegas police have pointed out that the boy came across a laden 9mm handgun within the residence. He was apparently amused by what he had found, and while playing around with it, the gun went off, hitting his younger sister in her upper body.

The Vegas police have mentioned in their reports that the father was present at home during the time, pointing out that the gun seemed to be inadequately locked. A full scale investigation is on way to probe into this accidental shootout, though no charges have been filed against anyone.

This unfortunate incident has occurred lesser than a week after a five year old boy accidently shot himself on the head that lead to his immediate demise. The boy had got his hands on the handgun while he was seated in his father’s car as they were parked outside a Las Vegas pharmacy. In this case, the father has been indicted on charges of imperilling the child’s life.

The only surviving suspect Ajmal Kasab captured during the 26/11 terrorist assault on Mumbai has confessed his involvement in the attack. He took a U-turn on his stand and gave a full confession of how the act was planned and carried out. He also gave full details of who all from across the border in Pakistan were involved in planning and providing logistic supports to carry out the terror attack. Out of the 10 terrorists of Pakistani origin who carried out the attack 9 were killed by the armed forces.

Police sources confirmed that the terrorists had killed more then 160 people which also included many foreigners as targets were Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotel, Mumbai’s historic CST train station and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House. Police sources also confirmed that Ajmal Kasab, age 21, was trained in Pakistan by the banned terrorist outlet Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.

The Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has provided all the evidence which also includes video footage from surveillance camera and 134 witnesses. Kasab was involved in the massacre at CST station and Cama hospital. He faces 86 criminal charges which also include murder, attempt to murder and waging war against India.

Today during the court proceeding when prosecution witness Constable Arun Jadhav stepped into the witness box, Kasab asked court permission for speaking to his lawyer Abbas Kazmi. After talking to him for 30 seconds, his lawyer confirmed to the court that Kasab wanted to confess. After that Kasab said in the court that “Mujhe mera gunha kabool hai (I plead guilty to my crime).”

Deadly bomb blasts tore through the two best and the most secured hotels in Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 40 people. The blasts occurred at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and J.W. Marriott Hotel. There are amongst the most luxurious hotels in the southern part of the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. The hotels are just 50 meters apart from each other.

The blast happened at 7:45 a.m. local time, and from the first reports they look like a coordinated blasts and were times to impact at the time of breakfast. Both the hotels are normally visited by foreign tourist, expats and business visitor’s .The blast targeted the restaurants in both the hotels. As of now the police have moved all the guests to secured locations and teams forensic experts are at the blast sites collecting all the evidence.

The blasts have blown massive holes in the hotel walls and also blew the windows of the hotels. From eyewitness reports one could see the restaurants shattered and also blood marks. It also is reported that it could a work of suicide bombers.

This is not the first time the Marriot has been targeted; in August 2003 a suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into the motor lobby of the hotel. That blast had killed 12 people and injured many as it happened during the lunch hour.

The blasts also put a big question mark on the security arrangements in the city of Jakarta. Its will be a huge puzzle for security experts to solve as to how some one could get through metal detectors and the security personal guarding the hotel entrances. The hotels have multiple layer of security with sniffer dogs and each guest is thoroughly check.

The Police raised fire at two Uighur men killing them as a last means to reinstate normalcy in the situation. The incident is amongst its first when on Monday, police opened fire to stop three Uighur men who has assaulted them, when an attempt was been made by the police to scatter them away when they were attacking a fourth Uighur man with sharp objects.

There have been thousands of troops deployed on the streets of Xinjiang during the last few days to enforce rigid control in Urumqi and adjoining areas after a spate of ethnic hostility occurred the previous week that claimed 180 lives while injuring 1,680 others.

According to standard police procedure, a shot was first fired in the air to which none paid heed, post which the police fires at them. The injured man was brought to the hospital for treatment. The incident unravelled in front of many petrified onlookers, none of whom were ready to speak out it later.

A big blood stained patch was seen spattered on the street a few hours later that was shut to public. Meanwhile a notice has been issued by the Bureau for Legal Affairs of Beijing abstaining lawyers from taking up cases that were related to the latest ethnic unrest in Xinjiang in the best interest of the country.