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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Federal authorities on Sunday detained five people with possible links to the New York bombing, local media reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. The FBI’s New York branch tweeted that no one had been charged in connection with the blast in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood, which injured 29 people — but did not make mention of any arrests. “We did a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in […]
by Rouba El Husseini BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Syria’s ceasefire was on the brink of collapsing Sunday, after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of regime soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first air raids in nearly a week. The barrage of strikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo risks reigniting battlefronts in the city and could be the most serious threat to the ceasefire so far. A halt to fighting around Aleppo […]
by Brian KNOWLTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The FBI said Sunday it was investigating a stabbing spree at a Minnesota mall as a “potential act of terrorism,” as local media identified the suspect as a 22-year-old Somali-American. Nine people were wounded Saturday in the attack in the city of St. Cloud before an off-duty policeman shot and killed the attacker. A news agency with ties to the Islamic State group said the rampage was […]
by Jennie MATTHEW NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Three separate attacks carried out in the United States on a single day — a New York bombing, a Minnesota mass stabbing and a New Jersey pipe bomb blast — were under investigation Sunday for potential terror links. Authorities say there is no evidence that any of the attacks were coordinated but the timing in less than 24 hours raises fears about security — already a hot button issue […]
INDANAN, Philippines (AFP) – A freed Norwegian hostage said he was “lucky to be alive” Sunday, after being kidnapped by Islamic militants and held in the southern Philippine jungle for more than a year. Kjartan Sekkingstad appeared gaunt and frail as he was handed over to a government envoy along with three Indonesian seamen who had been held captive with him. “I am so very happy and lucky to be alive,” Sekkingstad, heavily bearded […]
(REUTERS) A man wearing a private security uniform wounded eight people in a knife attack on Saturday at a mall in central Minnesota before he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer, authorities said. The man made references to Allah and asked at least one person if they were Muslim before he assaulted them at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, the city’s Police Chief William Blair Anderson told reporters. “Whether that […]
(REUTERS) Police combing the area around the scene of an explosion on Saturday in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood found a pressure cooker nearby connected to a cell phone with wires attached, CNN reported, citing law enforcement sources. (Reporting by Frank McGurty; Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Mary Milliken)
(REUTERS) U.S.-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated. The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it had believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russia informed it that Syrian military personnel and vehicles may have been hit. The United States relayed […]
(REUTERS) An election analysis conducted in the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project shows that the race has tightened considerably over the past few weeks, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump projected to win Florida, an essential battleground state, if the election were held today. The project, which is based on a weekly tracking poll of more than 15,000 Americans, shows that the 2016 presidential race could end in a photo finish on Nov. […]
(REUTERS) An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea district of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people in what authorities described as a deliberate, criminal act, while saying investigators had turned up no evidence of a “terror connection.” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials said investigators had ruled out a gas leak as the cause of the blast, but they stopped short of calling it a bombing and […]
by Andrew Beatty WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – After years of fueling conspiracy theories, Republican White House nominee Donald Trump admitted that President Barack Obama is an American citizen in a much-hyped and nationally televised event Friday. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said, as his campaign tried to silence damaging charges of racism. Trump pointedly did not apologize, and repeated false allegations that Hillary Clinton started the so-called […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – by Glenn CHAPMAN with Rob Lever in Washington Apple delivered its new iPhones on Friday in a global launch marked by long queues at its retail stores but also frustration over the sellout of some models. The scenes in Apple stores around the world were reminiscent of earlier launches, generating both anticipation and disappointment, but it was unclear if the shortages were the result of strong demand or limited […]
