A Dallas Cowboys team bus was involved in a crash Sunday (July 24) afternoon in rural Arizona, NBC reported. No Cowboys players were onboard the bus when it collided with a van but all four people in the van were killed, according to local authorities. Four Cowboys team staff members were on the bus that was headed to Las Vegas before continuing to California where the team will hold a training camp for upcoming NFL […]
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Eight dead, 20 missing in Malaysia boat accident
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s coast guard said Monday they had retrieved eight bodies after a boat capsized off the southern state of Johor at the weekend with another 20 people believed to be missing. Local media reported that the boat carrying 62 people — all Indonesians and thought to be illegal immigrants — capsized due to strong waves late on Saturday night. So far, 34 passengers have been rescued and a search was […]
Cubans embrace Japanese Otaku role-playing culture
Cuba may be one of the world’s least connected countries but that’s not stopping the Japanese subculture of anime and manga graphic novels spreading among its youth who held their third Otaku festival on Sunday (July 24). Hundreds of “otakus”, or geeky fans, flocked from around Cuba to the event in a Havana theater, defying the sweltering summer heat to roleplay sporting the costumes of their favourite fantasy characters, a practise known as “cosplay”. Some […]
Syrian refugee killed by own bomb at German bar
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A Syrian refugee has been killed setting off a bomb at a bar in southern Germany which also wounded a dozen other people late Sunday, authorities say, the third attack to hit Bavaria in a week. The 27-year-old man, whose asylum application was rejected a year ago, had been targeting a nearby pop music festival, regional interior minister Joachim Herrmann said, according to DPA. Some 2,500 people have been evacuated from […]
Eyewitnesses talk of explosion in Ansbach
An explosion killed at least one person and injured 12 others near the German city of Nuremberg on Sunday(July 24) and authorities said it was believed to be intentional. Eyewitnesses spoke of a a loud bang and others of a rucksack exploding, and police later said the person killed in the blast, a man with a backpack, was likely carrying an explosive device and acted alone. There was no immediate information on his identity but […]
Suspected bomber killed in German bar blast: police
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The man killed by an explosion at a bar in the southern German city of Ansbach late on Sunday was the one who set off the blast, local police said. At least 12 other people were injured in the explosion, which went off close to a bar in the city centre at around 10:00 pm (2000 GMT). Some 2,500 people were gathered nearby for an open-air music festival, which local media […]
Democrats in disarray on eve of convention to nominate Clinton
(REUTERS) — The head of the Democratic Party resigned on Sunday (July 24) amid a furor over embarrassing leaked emails, hoping to head off a growing rebellion by Bernie Sanders supporters on the eve of the convention to nominate Hillary Clinton for the White House. Lingering bitterness from their heated primary campaign erupted after more than 19,000 Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails, leaked on Friday, seemed to confirm Sanders’ frequent charge that the party […]
Democratic Party chair resigns in wake of email leak
PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) — Embattled Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday she is resigning, following a leak of emails suggesting an insider attempt to hobble the campaign of Hillary Clinton’s rival in the White House primaries Bernie Sanders. Wasserman Schultz will step down at the end of the Democratic National Convention, she said in a statement on the eve of the confab in Philadelphia that is set to anoint Clinton as the […]
SE Asia deadlocked as S. China Sea split deepens
by Martin ABBUGAO Annabel SYMINGTON VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) — Southeast Asian nations were deadlocked Sunday about how to confront China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea as pressure from Beijing again drove a wedge between countries on the region’s toughest security challenge. Their gathering in the Laos capital is the first time regional players — including China and the United States — have met en masse since a UN-backed tribunal delivered a hammer blow […]
Blast at German bar ‘deliberate’: local authorities
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — An explosion which killed at least one person at a bar in the southern German city of Ansbach on Sunday night was set off on purpose, local authorities told AFP. “The explosion was set off deliberately,” said Michael Siefener, a spokesman for the regional interior ministry, adding that authorities were trying to establish the exact cause. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
China builds massive seaplane: state media
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has completed production of the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, state media has said, the latest effort in the country’s program to wean itself off dependence on foreign aviation firms. The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) unveiled the first of the new planes, dubbed the AG600, Saturday in the southern port city of Zhuhai, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The aircraft, which has a maximum range of 4,500 […]
One dead, 11 injured by blast in German city of Ansbach: report
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — One person was killed and 11 injured by an explosion at a restaurant in the southern German city of Ansbach on Sunday night, DPA reported, citing local police. Officers have cordoned off the centre of the Bavarian city and rescue services are on the scene, the news agency reported, although details of what caused the explosion are still unclear. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
