AROUND THE WORLD. Second bomb in Nigeria’s Kaduna kills 50 A second bomb blast in Kaduna killed 50 in the north Nigerian city’s crowded Kawo market on Monday, Reuters quoted a local Red Cross worker on the scene as saying. The first blast targeting an Imam in the city center killed 32 of his followers. Chief doctor fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone contracts the virus The chief doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, Reuters said. Sheik Umar Khan, 39, is hailed as a “national hero” by the country’s health ministry. The doctor was leading the fight to control an outbreak that has killed 206 people in the West African nation. More than 600 people have died from the illness in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization. Iraq govt airstrikes kill at least 75 civilians Air strikes carried out by Iraq’s security forces have killed at least 75 civilians and wounded hundreds of others in five cities since June 6, Human Rights Watch said. The organization claimed it had documented 17 airstrikes, the majority in the first half of July. In six of them, barrel bombs were reportedly used. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, noted that the Iraqi government “may be fighting a vicious insurgency, but that’s no license to kill civilians.” The attacks were carried out as the government is trying to retake areas controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) fighters and other Sunni armed groups. 23 killed in Baghdad suicide car bombing A suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has killed 23 people, including nine police officers, and wounded 52 others, Reuters reported citing police and a hospital source. The bomb went off at a police checkpoint in the Kadhimiya district, a mainly Shiite area in the north of the city. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight suicide bombing in a Shiite district of Baghdad, Reuters said. Islamic scholars condemn expulsion of Iraqs Christians An influential group of Islamic scholars has denounced the forced expulsion of Christians from northern Iraq by ISIL, saying it paves the way for fighting between the countrys ethnic and religious groups. These are acts that violate Islamic laws, Islamic conscience and leave but a negative image of Islam and Muslims. The Christian community of Mosul fled to the Kurdish autonomous region last week, ending a presence stretching back nearly 2,000 years, after ISIL militants set them a deadline to submit to their rule or leave. It has rejected the groups declaration of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria as illegal under Muslim law, saying such a development can only be made after enough legitimate representatives of Muslim peoples have pledged their allegiance. Death toll in Moscow Metro accident rises to 23 A woman who was injured in a deadly accident in the Moscow Metro on July 23 died in a hospital on Wednesday morning, RIA Novosti said. It was earlier reported that 22 people died in the train crash, and about 150 people were injured. Meanwhile, Basmanny District Court in Moscow on Tuesday ordered the arrest of a third suspect, Anatoly Kruglov, who is the production director of a construction company. Somali MP shot dead in Mogadishu Unidentified militants opened fire on MP Sada Alis vehicle, leaving her dead.
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