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Salman Abedi (inset) killed 22 people and injured at least 119 more when he detonated a bomb at Manchester Arena on Monday night as children were piling out of the venue having watched Ariana Grande. But this afternoon the father of the attacker, Ramadan Abedi (right), said: 'We don't believe in killing innocents. This is not us.'                                                                                                                                                             Read more » Follow @cool_jist

At least 31 African migrants including young children drowned  on Wednesday  when they fell off an overloaded vessel in the Mediterranean Sea "This morning our crew on board the Phoenix reported that they were engaged in the rescue of a large wooden boat carrying several hundreds of people" said a spokesperson for Maltese NGO, Migrant Offshore Station (MOAS).                                                                                    Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Indonesian police said that a suspected suicide bomber and a police officer were killed in explosions near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon. There were two blasts in Kampung Melayu that went off five minutes apart late in the evening. Some people, including police officers, were wounded and have been taken to a nearby hospital. A hospital official who spoke to local TV stations said two policemen.                                                                                                                                                                  Read more » Follow @cool_jist

There was drama in Tieng’re, Kisumu County in Kenya as the body of a man buried almost two months ago on a disputed piece of land was  on Tuesday  exhumed following a directive issued by a High Court. Villagers at the scene who couldn't believe their eyes watched as youths hired by Gibson Onunga, who claims legal ownership of the disputed land, pulled out the casket containing remains of the late Ogada Ouko.                                                                       Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Members of staff and students of the Osun State University, Ipetu Ijesa, were reportedly harassed and battered by Airforce personnel  on Tuesday .  According to multiple reports, the Airforce men, who have allegedly been terrorising students of the University for a long time, arrived the campus Tuesday and beat up people on sight.                                                                                                                                                       Read more » Follow @cool_jist