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An outbreak of H1N1 in Myanmar has now killed 27 as the government is starting to step up public awareness campaigns about the swine flu virus. Since the H1N1 outbreak started on July 21, 277 of 725 respiratory infection patients have been diagnosed as H1N1 influenza A virus victims across the entirety of Myanmar. Among the 277, 27 people have died, and the number of infected patients is increasing, the latest statistics from the […]
TURKU, Finland (AFP) — Finnish police arrested five people in a Turku apartment overnight in their investigation into a stabbing rampage that left two people dead, they said Saturday. Police shot and wounded a knife-wielding suspect on Friday, arresting him minutes after an afternoon stabbing spree at a Turku market square. Police on Saturday raised the number of injured in the attack from six to eight. “There was a raid and we have now six […]
TURKU, Finland (AFP) — Police shot and wounded a suspect after a stabbing spree in which a man killed two people and wounded six others in the Finnish city of Turku. Within hours of the attack on Friday the force had announced increased police patrols across the country. “There are eight victims in the stabbing. Two dead and six injured,” Turku police tweeted after the assault in a market square. A hospital official told […]
by Chris Lefkow and Jerome Cartillier Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump parted ways with his controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday as the White House reeled from the fallout over the president’s much-criticized response to a violent white supremacist rally. But the 63-year-old — whose departure caps one of the most disastrous weeks of the already chaotic young Trump administration — vowed to keep pushing the president’s right-wing agenda, […]
by Daniel Bosque with Laurence Boutreux in Cambrils Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Suspects in Spain’s deadly twin terror attacks were preparing an even bigger assault that was foiled as events unfolded, police said Friday as the death toll rose to 14 with over 100 injured. Officers also said the driver of the white van which mowed down tourists in the packed centre of Barcelona Thursday evening may have been among suspects […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finnish police said they were looking for more suspects after arresting a man on suspicion of stabbing several people in the southwestern city of Turku. “Police are looking for other possible perpetrators of the crime in Turku,” security forces wrote on Twitter. “They ask the population to leave and avoid central Turku.” The suspect’s motive was as yet unknown, as was the number of victims.
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Several people were stabbed in the southwestern Finnish city of Turku on Friday, police said after shooting and arresting a suspect. “Police shot the suspected perpetrator in the legs,” police wrote on Twitter. “The person has been arrested. We recommend that people avoid central Turku.” Police did not confirm the number of victims. Public television station Yle reported that central Turku was on lockdown, with witnesses saying they had seen bodies […]
(Eagle News) — Since July 2016, Europe has seen a deadly trend of attacks where “terrorists” used vehicles to kill and harm innocent people – bystanders, tourists, pedestrians, including teenagers and children. The places they targeted were busy and popular streets, tourist spots, markets or just about any place where there were many pedestrians. The deadly vehicle-ramming attacks hit popular and highly developed European cities which people would normally think were safe and well-secured. […]
https://youtu.be/unHt8oMDrK0 Police are now probing the second car attack in Spain, in Cambrils, a city 120 kilometres south of Barcelona, where an Audi A3 car hit pedestrians, injuring six civilians — one of them in a critical condition — and one police officer. Police shot dead four of the Cambrils attackers and a fifth later died of his injuries, according to the government of the Spanish region of Catalonia where both Barcelona and Cambrils are […]
At least 13 people were killed and more than 100 others injured after drivers slammed into pedestrians in two quick-succession, separate attacks on Barcelona’s most popular street and in another busy Spanish seaside city. What happened? Around 4:50 pm (1450 GMT) on Thursday, a vehicle ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians on the famous Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona. The promenade in the heart of the city centre is one of Barcelona’s busiest streets, normally […]
by Amber Wang TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A samurai sword-wielding attacker carrying the national flag of China slashed a military police guard outside Taiwan’s presidential office Friday, authorities said. The Taiwanese man who was arrested at the scene said he was expressing his political views and had stolen the sword from a nearby history museum, police told AFP. The presidential office in the center of the capital Taipei is the headquarters of Taiwan’s Beijing-skeptic President […]
SAKON NAKHON, Thailand (CCTV) — Floodwaters have yet to recede in Thailand’s Sakon Nakhon province which was swept across by the worst floods in the northeastern province for two decades on July 27, with houses, farmlands and roads still being submerged. In the worst-hit districts of Sakon Nakhon, water from a flood-swollen river continue to overflow, and a number of levees on the river have been washed away. Houses in the low-lying areas are largely submerged […]
