Kabul university attack: 12 killed as gunmen open fire on campus

Twelve people were killed in an attack on a university in Kabul, the Afghan capital, a spokesman for the Chief of Kabul Police tells CNN. Two gunmen who were still on the site were killed Thursday morning in a police operation. Seven students, three policemen and two security guards were killed in the attack on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul campus, Basir Mujahid, the spokesman said. Thirty students were injured in the attack,...

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World's friendliest cities, according to Conde Nast Traveler

Charleston, South Carolina is all the rage this year. The southern town where the US Civil War started is now the friendliest city in the world, according to Conde Nast Traveler's 29th annual Readers' Choice Awards. "More and more people are going to Charleston," Conde Nast deputy digital editor Laura Redman tells CNN. "Europeans are heading to Charleston because they've heard about the food and the architecture. It's getting great press,...

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Canada's stolen daughters: Sex traffickers target indigenous Canadians

As Lauren Chopek painfully details her story, she does so with the reticence of a survivor, as if somehow remaining silent would have been better. "I used to blame myself for everything. But, like I, I would say I let them do that to me. I am dirty. It's my fault," says Chopek through tears. But Chopek is finally speaking out, determined to shake the guilt and shame that she knows should stalk her perpetrators instead of her. "Now I see...

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Quake leaves 247 dead; rescuers race to find survivors in Italy

An earthquake, about 10 kilometers deep, has shaken central Italy. Here's what we know: 6.2-magnitude quake struck near the town of Norcia at 3:36 a.m. local time An hour later, a 5.5-magnitude aftershock hit just four kilometers north of the same town Several buildings collapsed in the mountain town of Amatrice...

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US says it doesn’t support Balochistan’s independence

WASHINGTON: The United States categorically assured Pakistan on Tuesday that it did not support independence for Balochistan. In an earlier statement, the US State Department shared with Dawn its general commitment to Pakistan’s territorial integrity and distanced itself from India’s effort to stir an international controversy over Balochistan. But on Tuesday, the State Department shared another statement with Dawn, removing all ambiguities about its stance on an issue that many Pakistanis fear can be exploited to endanger the very existence...

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