Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.
Important events in the world this week.- Australian officials say a piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane.
- Heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a hotel in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam which is popular with Westerners, witnesses said. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.
- Britain is set to lift a 15-year-old ban on a pro-Khalistan militant group after a debate in the House of Commons concluded that \"sufficient evidence\" does not currently exist to link it to terrorism.
- Four people were killed in two separate shootings in the Turkish capital Ankara, a city on edge since a suicide bombing last weekend, but militants were not involved in incident, local newspapers and an official said.
- EU leaders approved a controversial deal with Turkey to curb the huge flow of asylum seekers to Europe, with all migrants arriving in Greece by Sunday to be sent back.
- A Russian rocket lifted off from the Baikonur space base, carrying three crew to the International Space Station including a US grandfather who is poised to enter the record books.
- Police in Bolivia said a small plane crashed into a market in a town in the country's north, killing all four people in the aircraft and injuring three vendors on the ground.
- Canada announced that it is providing 7,500 refurbished computers to Syrian refugees and hopes to give them a leg up in school and in job searches with new technology skills training.
- A female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bombing that killed 37 people in the Turkish capital Ankara, security officials said.
- Iran's annual fire festival ahead of the Persian New Year claimed three lives and left 259 injured, officials said, as warnings against dangerous celebrations were ignored.
- At least two people were reportedly injured after a charter plane with 18 people on board crash-landed at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport.
- Taiwan launched a database to inform residents about which areas might be susceptible to creating potentially catastrophic sinkholes in the event of one of the island's frequent earthquakes.
- Tens of thousands of foreign maids in Hong Kong are in forced labour', according to a new report that fuels growing criticism of the city's treatment of its army of domestic workers.
- A powerful bomb ripped through abus carrying government employees in Pakistan's Peshawar city, killing at least 16 people and injuring 30 others.
- China issued yellow alert for smog as the pollution choked most regions in the country's north with no signs of abating.
- At least eleven people were killed in two separate incidents triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan's north western city of Peshawar.
- Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employees and police officers are seen as they take a car to drive to the area of a plane crash at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, Russia. (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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