Here's a look at the important events in the world this week
Important events in the world this week- Military officers and a self-defence fighter say dozens of emaciated Boko Haram fighters begging for food have surrendered to soldiers in Nigeria. (Photo: AP)
- Emirates Airline, which was scheduled to launch what it called the world's longest non-stop flight this month between Dubai and Panama City, said it was postponing those plans for around a year. (Photo: Twitter)
- At least 16 people, including four Indian nurses, were killed when gunmen opened fire at an elderly care home in Yemen's main southern city of Aden, security officials said. (Photo: AFP)
- A Turkish court sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the deaths of 5 people including 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, who galvanized world attention on the refugee crisis when a photo was published of him lying lifeless on a beach. (Photo: AP)
- Afghan security forces killed a team of suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least six people were wounded, officials said. (Photo: Twitter)
- Strong aftershocks continued to rock Indonesia after a massive undersea 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra. The quake sparked fears of a region-wide disaster similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people. (Photo: AP)
- North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast, Seoul officials said, just hours after the UN Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. (Photo: AP)
- Sixty people were hospitalised, mostly for burns, after the engine on a Bangkok commuter boat exploded and sent passengers leaping to a nearby pier or into the water, officials said. (Photo: Twitter)
- Tens of thousands of supporters chanted and threw rose petals on Tuesday at an ambulance bearing the body of a Pakistani Islamist executed for killing a liberal governor, as schools closed and police guarded flashpoints. Qadri, a police bodyguard to Salman Taseer, shot the liberal Punjab governor 28 times at an Islamabad market in 2011. (Photo: AP)
- A prominent Pakistani lawyer has filed a petition in the top Sharia court seeking that it strike down a new law that gives unprecedented protection to female victims of violence. (Photo: AP)
- In the wake of extremist attacks in the country, Bangladesh is considering to abandon Islam as its official religion. (Photo: AP)
Important events in the world this week
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week
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