Car Bomb Rips Through Afghan Capital Kabul: HRW Daily Brief
Car bomb rips through Afghan capital Kabul; people with disabilities suffer in South Sudan; Yemen "faces total collapse"; 3 activists investigating Chinese firm making Ivanka Trump shoes disappear; Qatar forcibly returns Saudi activist; Turkey's empty education promise; Russia food chain bans gays; & Vietnam autocrat to meet Trump.
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Another day, another bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Shockingly, even Germany’s leaders, whose embassy was rocked by the massive explosion, seem unshaken. Just hours after Germany’s foreign minister announced all of its embassy staffers were safe, the country’s interior minister confirmed that it would only briefly suspend its policy of deporting rejected Afghan asylum seekers to Kabul.
A massive car bomb has ripped through the diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least 80 people and injuring 350 more. It struck close to the German Embassy, although civilians are said to be the main casualties.
The Taliban have denied they carried out the attack, and there has been no word so far from ISIS. People with disabilities and older people in South Sudan face greater risks of being caught in fighting and greater challenges in getting aid, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. Throughout the conflict, HRW has found people with disabilities and older people being shot, hacked to death, or burned alive in their houses. Yemen is heading towards "total social, economic and institutional collapse", the UN's humanitarian chief has warned. In a devastating briefing, Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council that the triple threat of armed conflict, famine, and deadly disease that has already affected millions "will spare no one if it continues unchecked". Three labour activists who were investigating a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-branded shoes in China have been arrested and disappeared, reports say. Qatar authorities forcibly returned a prominent Saudi activist to Saudi Arabia last week, HRW has said. Mohammad al-Oteibi fled to Qatar in March, and now faces possible ill-treatment and a long prison sentence in Saudi.
The Taliban have denied they carried out the attack, and there has been no word so far from ISIS. People with disabilities and older people in South Sudan face greater risks of being caught in fighting and greater challenges in getting aid, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. Throughout the conflict, HRW has found people with disabilities and older people being shot, hacked to death, or burned alive in their houses. Yemen is heading towards "total social, economic and institutional collapse", the UN's humanitarian chief has warned. In a devastating briefing, Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council that the triple threat of armed conflict, famine, and deadly disease that has already affected millions "will spare no one if it continues unchecked". Three labour activists who were investigating a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-branded shoes in China have been arrested and disappeared, reports say. Qatar authorities forcibly returned a prominent Saudi activist to Saudi Arabia last week, HRW has said. Mohammad al-Oteibi fled to Qatar in March, and now faces possible ill-treatment and a long prison sentence in Saudi.