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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Two Swedes, one Briton and a Belgian were killed in the Stockholm truck attack that also left 15 people injured, Swedish police said Sunday. “We have confirmed the identities of the dead, and their families have been informed,” Stockholm police official Jan Evensson told reporters.
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel remained committed to treating war wounded from Syria and reaffirmed his support for last week’s United States air strike in the neighboring country. In comments at the start of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu did not specify whether those injured in last week’s suspected chemical attack in Syria would be among those treated in Israel. Israeli media reported that a proposal to do so had […]
by Camille Bas-Wohlert STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Thousands of people were to gather in central Stockholm on Sunday for a “Lovefest” gathering against terrorism, as police pursue their investigation into this week’s deadly truck attack. Shocked by Friday’s attack that left four dead and 15 injured — for which a 39-year-old Uzbek man is in custody — Stockholmers mobilized on Facebook, organizing the gathering for 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) at the Sergels Torg plaza near […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia slammed London on Sunday after British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow over its support for the Syrian regime, claiming Britain has “no real influence” internationally. The cancellation “once again confirms doubts about the added value of dialogue with the British, who don’t have their own position on the majority of current issues,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. The British have “no real influence […]
By Pia Ohlin STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Swedish police found a suspect device in the truck that ploughed into a Stockholm crowd killing four in Europe’s latest such terror attack, officials said Saturday. The alleged driver, who is in custody, is a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan who was already known to Swedish police, authorities said. “We have found a device in the vehicle that doesn’t belong there … A technical examination is ongoing, we can’t […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected US-led coalition airstrike on Saturday near the Islamic State group’s Syrian bastion Raqa, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 17 people were injured in the strike on Heneyda, and that the death toll could rise further because several of the wounded were in serious conditions. The Britain-based group said the strike was […]
by Carole LANDRY / with Omar Haj Kadour in Khan Sheikhun Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States warned Friday it is ready to hit Syria again after a missile strike that infuriated Moscow and fueled calls for a push to end the six-year war. US Ambassador Nikki Haley delivered the warning at an emergency session of the UN Security Council called after the US strikes, which were launched to punish […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — At least 20 people were killed when a boat carrying scores of wedding guests collided with a river barge at night in western Myanmar, authorities said Saturday, with more feared drowned as rescue workers renewed their search in daylight. Most of the dead were women, according to officials, who said the boat sank Friday evening on a river in Pathein, a port city west of the commercial capital Yangon. “Altogether 16 […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Four people were killed and at least 15 injured when a stolen truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, in what the prime minister described as a “terror attack.” Here is what we know about the truck attack in Sweden’s capital: What happened? The incident occurred just before 1300 GMT on Friday at the corner of the Ahlens department store and Drottninggatan, […]
Damascus residents criticize an American air strike on a Syrian airbase that marked the first direct US assault on President Bashar al-Assad’s government, saying it amounts to “international terrorism against a sovereign state.” Najeed Haj Bakri, university student said, “The US will intervene, whether it’s in the Shayrat airfield or any other airfield, every time the Syrian army advances and captures new areas. The Israelis and Turks did the same thing.” Esam Remeh, a […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Far-right backers of US President Donald Trump rebelled Friday after he ordered a missile strike to punish Syria for a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed 86 people. Bandying the hashtag #Syriahoax, leaders of the “Alt-Right” white nationalist fringe lashed out at the president for abandoning his election campaign stances. Some denied the suspected chemical attack took place. Others rejected the broadly accepted […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Sweden early Saturday arrested a man for a “terrorist crime,” prosecutors said, hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four. The man was arrested “on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder,” Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told AFP. Police said earlier on Friday after the attack that they had detained the man who “matched […]
