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Elizabeth, NJ (September 21) — Eagle News Correspondent Elle Aguilar camped outside the home of suspected terrorist Ahmad Khan Rahami who allegedly, was responsible for the recent blasts in NY and NJ. (Eagle News Correspondent Elle Aguilar, Camera: Keith Bethea)
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – by Carole LANDRY UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his farewell address to the General Assembly on Tuesday to urge world leaders to end the war in Syria and bring the Paris climate deal into force this year. With just three months to go before he steps down as UN chief, Ban also made a final plea to end the “madness” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and gave world leaders advice on […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) – by Marthe BOSUANDOLE Several people died in a second day of violence in DR Congo Tuesday, with three opposition HQ buildings torched in fresh clashes between police and opponents of President Joseph Kabila. The violence came after a bloody day on Monday during which opposition groups said more than 50 people had died in protests calling for Kabila’s resignation. The national secretary of the main opposition group blamed a “commando” […]
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) – by Hassan al-Obeidi Iraqi forces launched an operation on Tuesday to retake a northern town from the Islamic State group in the latest move to prepare a broad offensive on jihadist bastion Mosul. Army and tribal forces pushed towards Sherqat, which IS fighters captured more than two years ago when they swept across Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland. The town lies on the west bank of the Tigris river in Salaheddin province, 260 […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A powerful typhoon ripped into southern Japan Tuesday, dumping torrential rains on the region that left some communities partially submerged and forced dozens of flights to be cancelled. Typhoon Malakas made landfall in the southernmost main island of Kyushu shortly after midnight (1500 GMT), packing winds of up to 180 kilometres (112 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Television footage from public broadcaster NHK showed houses, cars and rice fields […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — An outbreak of water-borne disease has killed at least 19 people and sickened scores more in Sudan’s rain-ravaged states of Blue Nile and Kasala, a minister said Monday. Since June, heavy rain and flooding have hit several states of Sudan, killing at least 100 people, destroying thousands of homes and submerging many villages. “In the past three weeks, 19 people including children have died from water-borne diseases like diarrhea,” Health Minister Bahar […]
by Karam al-Masri ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — A convoy delivering aid to Syrians in Aleppo province was hit by an air strike, leaving 12 dead hours after the Syrian military declared an end to a week-long ceasefire, monitors and the UN said. At least 18 trucks were destroyed as the convoy travelled to the hard-to-reach town of Orum al-Kubra in Aleppo province, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights saying 12 Red Crescent volunteers and […]
(Reuters) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, the North’s state media reported on Tuesday, the latest in a rapid succession of missile-related tests this year by the isolated state. Kim asked that the scientists and engineers make “preparations for launching the satellite as soon as possible on the basis of the successful test,” the official KCNA news agency said, indicating the […]
(REUTERS) An aid convoy was hit in Aleppo province, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Syrian military declared that a week-long ceasefire was over. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attacks were carried out by either Syrian or Russian aircraft, adding that there had been 35 strikes in and around Aleppo since the truce ended. Fourteen Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers were killed, Elhadj As Sy, secretary general […]
(REUTERS) Long before Ahmad Rahami became notorious as the suspect in this weekend’s bombings in and around New York, his family was known in Elizabeth, New Jersey, for frequent skirmishes with neighbors over its fried chicken restaurant. Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan, had a few other brushes with the law on his own, records show. Described as a “class clown” by a high school classmate, he studied criminal […]
(REUTERS) An Afghanistan-born American suspected of detonating a bomb that injured 29 people in New York City and of planting other devices in New York and New Jersey was arrested on Monday after a gun battle with police, but investigators said his motive was unknown. Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was taken into custody hours after authorities publicly identified him as the prime suspect in the Saturday night blast […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Jennie MATTHEW US police on Monday wounded and captured an Afghan-born American wanted over bombings in New York and New Jersey, which stoked terror fears less than 50 days before the country’s presidential election. The bombings Saturday came on the same day as a separate stabbing rampage in Minnesota carried out by a Somali-American with possible links to the Islamic State extremist group. President Barack Obama, in New York […]
