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...early evening bombing occurred along a narrow road between the southern Lebanese towns of Khiam and Marjayoun, four miles north of the border with Israel. An armored vehicle carrying Spanish UNIFIL troops was struck by a suicide car bomb that blasted the vehicle off the road and set it on fire. Six soldiers died in the blast and two others were wounded, according to UNIFIL. Near the UNIFIL vehicle was the twisted wreckage of a civilian car containing human remains. An initial report that the explosion was caused by a powerful roadside bomb was later discounted in favor...
...have to take all these threats seriously, but it does not affect the way we operate or our ability to fulfill our mandate," UNIFIL'S Strugar told TIME in an interview last week at the U.N. group's headquarters in the southern coastal village of Naqoura...
...officers privately admit that they are relatively vulnerable against determined assailants, despite increased security measures around their observation posts and hill top bases in south Lebanon. Sources told TIME that the UNIFIL headquarters regularly receives unspecified intelligence warnings of possible impending attacks, such as bomb-laden cars entering the southern Lebanon border district. "The problem is that there's nothing hard enough for us to act upon," a UNIFIL officer told TIME a day before Sunday's fatal bombing. "We are a soft target and it's only a matter of time before we are hit." Immediately after Sunday...
...NATO air strike hit an insurgent base in southern Afghanistan Friday, knocking out some 30 Taliban. The air strike was in retaliation for a militant attack on nearby police posts, but it also killed 25 civilians in the process, including 9 women, 3 children and a village mullah, according to local police...
...hard not to notice 1 million migrating animals. But until Mike Fay and Paul Elkan, scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, began conducting aerial surveys of southern Sudan in January, the world had little idea the savannahs were covered with 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope (shown in photo) and Mongalla gazelles parading in processions up to 50 miles long. "I've covered the entire continent looking for this, and there is no place like it, even in the Serengeti," says Fay, referring to the Serengeti wildebeest herds, considered the world's largest mammal migration. Because of a decades...