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(REUTERS) Two attackers killed a priest with a blade and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police. There were no immediate details on the identity or motives of the two assailants but the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorist unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office. A police source said it appeared that the priest had his throat slit. The Vatican condemned what […]
(REUTERS) French police “neutralized” two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday, the police said. A police source said that one of the hostages had been killed with a blade in the attack which took place in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, south of Rouen. French media reported the attackers cut the throat of the priest. French President Francois Hollande was on his […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) by Martin PARRY The Australian government ordered an inquiry Tuesday after graphic evidence emerged of prison guards assaulting teenage boys, with one shown hooded and shackled in scenes likened to Guantanamo Bay. National broadcaster ABC on Monday night showed footage of offenders, many indigenous, being stripped naked, tear-gassed and held in solitary confinement for weeks at a youth detention centre in the Northern Territory in 2014 and 2015. In one video from last […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) by Laurent BARTHELEMY The FBI announced Monday it was investigating the embarrassing hack of Democratic National Committee emails — a breach the Clinton campaign blamed on Russia, accusing Moscow of seeking to influence the US presidential election. The emails leaked by WikiLeaks, which reveal that party leaders sought to undermine the campaign of Hillary Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders, threw the Democratic National Convention into disarray on its first day and prompted the […]
VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) – The United States warned North Korea Tuesday that it faces “real consequences” over its internationally condemned nuclear and missile tests, which have inflamed tensions in East Asia. “Together we are determined… to make absolutely certain that DPRK (North Korea) understands that there are real consequences for these actions,” US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of Asian nations in Laos. Tensions have soared since Pyongyang carried […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) – At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday in twin bombings near UN and African Union buildings adjoining Mogadishu’s airport, police said, in what the jihadist Shabaab group claimed as a suicide attack. The Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab group is blamed for a string of bloody assaults in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya, and is fighting to overthrow Mogadishu’s internationally-backed government. “At least 13 people were confirmed to have died in two explosions, […]
by Hiroshi HIYAMA SAGAMIHARA, Japan (AFP) — A knife-wielding former employee killed 19 people and injured 25 at a care centre for the mentally disabled in Japan on Tuesday, in the country’s worst mass killing in decades. The 26-year-old man later turned himself in at a police station, admitting to officers: “I did it.” He reportedly also said: “The disabled should all disappear.” Authorities identified the attacker as Satoshi Uematsu and said he had worked […]
PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — Vanquished White House hopeful Bernie Sanders on Monday told a riven and lively Democratic convention that his rival Hillary Clinton must become the next US president. To cheers and some boos, Sanders said that “based on her ideas and her leadership,” Clinton was a better choice than Donald Trump and “must become the next president of the United States.” “The choice is not even close,” he said. “This election is […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — US President Barack Obama’s half-brother said Tuesday he was going to vote for Republican candidate Donald Trump in this year’s American election, saying he felt let down his sibling’s neglect of his Kenyan family. Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father he barely knew, who left the family home and the US when the future president was two years old. “This Trump guy is a […]
PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — US First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday told the Democratic convention in Philadelphia that Hillary Clinton was the one candidate ready to be president, as she poured scorn on Donald Trump’s behavior and temperament. “In this election, there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton,” […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least 19 people were killed in Japan when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage at a care centre for the mentally disabled early Tuesday, officials said. Another 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously, in the attack in Sagamihara city, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo, a local fire department spokesman said. A 26-year-old man who said he was a former employee of the centre later turned himself in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Some 15 people died and 45 were injured at a care center for the disabled in Japan Tuesday when a former employee went on a knife rampage before turning himself in to police, officials and media said. The attack began when the man, aged in his 20s, entered the facility in the early hours of the morning, police said. He later appeared at a nearby police station and admitted to officers: […]
