On July 9, the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in Mosul after the city was finally retaken from ISIS. It was only three years ago, in June 2014, around 1,500 fighters from ISIS routed a force over 20 times its size (surrender) and captured Iraq's second-largest city.
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, said on 15 July 2017 that, “Indian intelligence is operating from Afghanistan to sabotage the multi-billion dollar CPEC project... Pakistan is fully aware of the designs of hostile agencies especially RAW against the country," while addressing a passing out parade of naval cadets in Karachi. (Tribune)
On Saturday, the country’s largest festival, Bråvalla, announced it would not be holding an event in 2018, after police said they had received reports of four rapes and 23 sexual assaults following this year's outing.
Tanzanian and UK media outlets reported on jailed insurance fraudster mum (Arafa Nassib) from East Africa who, with her son Adil Kasim, conspired to plot her fake death, so her son could claim life insurance policies from Scottish Widows Insurance firm.
London suffered a wave of terror last night, and the world’s media are following the story with great interest; CNN: “London acid attacks: 5 men assaulted in 1 night; 2 arrested”, TIME Magazine: “Acid Attacks Have Become a Gruesome Criminal Trend in the U.K.”, the Washington Post: “The London acid attack is part of a depressing, ‘barbaric’ trend.”
Talks on global trade at the Group of 20 summit proved very difficult and differences on climate change also were clear, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, as police and protesters clashed throughout the day in the summit's host city of Hamburg.