France has again been stunned by a jihadist attack, after knife-wielding men burst in to a church, slit an elderly priest’s throat and took hostages. Two men entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, during morning mass at about 09:25 local time. Inside was the priest – 86-year-old ... Read More »
Nineteen residents have been killed in a knife attack at a care center for people with mental disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. Such attacks are extremely rare in Japan – the incident is the worst mass killing in decades. Police have arrested a local man, said to be ... Read More »
The final statement called for the twenty-seventh of the Arab summit which was held in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott to devote efforts to solve the Palestinian issue . The summit has begun its work in the absence of more than half of the Arab leaders . It was decided that ... Read More »
His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an antipsychotic drug, a tranquilizer and an antidepressant. “There were the beginnings of a psychosis,” the doctor, ... Read More »
One of the most tortured men in the history of Guantánamo Bay has received clearance from the wartime prison’s quasi-parole board to leave after nearly 14 years of detention without charge. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian citizen whose harrowing account of his torture at Guantánamo Bay became an international bestseller ... Read More »
Istanbul governor’s office says 10 killed and 15 wounded by blast in historic Sultanahmet district of city Turkish police have sealed off the square and ambulances have rushed to the scene, close to the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, in a major tourist area of Turkey’s most populous city. The ... Read More »
Trucks carried food and medicine into the city of Madaya, Syria, where there have been reports of wide-spread starvation. BEIRUT, Lebanon — The first trucks from a convoy carrying food and medical aid entered the besieged Syrian town of Madaya on Monday, only to discover harrowing scenes of desperation, including ... Read More »
Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to it. “We are faced with common threats, and we still want all countries, both in ... Read More »
Number of complaints of attacks filed by women in Cologne reaches 516 German government politicians have promised to fast-track new laws to crack down on criminal asylum seekers as the number of complaints of physical and sexual attacks filed by women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve has reached 516. ... Read More »
A tornado struck Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday, damaging houses, uprooting trees and injuring at least three people in the state’s largest city, law enforcement and weather officials said. National Weather Service meteorologist Jody Aaron said the twister was confirmed to have touched down in the southwestern portion of town at ... Read More »
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