Fifty-seven soldiers who had been held captive by locals in the mountains of Colombia since the weekend have been freed in a military operation, the Colombian defence minister has said. The minister, Pedro Sánchez, said that not a single shot had been fired in what he dubbed “Operation Justice”. The soldiers were seized in the...
A new bench inside an Exeter cemetery has been replaced after being hit by a car. The wooden bench in Exeter Higher Cemetery was recently badly damaged after a car accidentally reversed into it. Fortunately, Exeter City Council quickly installed a new one to replace the original. A plaque from the old bench was also...
EPA An Indian paramilitary soldier keeps watch from behind a fence in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir Mohammed Waheed was fast asleep at his home in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the early hours of Wednesday morning when a huge blast shook his home. “Before we could even process what was happening, more missiles struck,...
