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by Catherine Triomphe Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A 27-year-old from Bangladesh detonated a home-made pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York subway passage during the morning rush hour Monday, injuring three people and putting the city on edge just six weeks after a deadly truck attack. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the bombing an “attempted terrorist attack,” as police identified the suspect, who alone […]
by Albert Kambale with Philippe Rater at the United Nations Agence France Presse The United Nations suffered its worst attack on a peacekeeping mission in nearly a quarter of a century on Friday when suspected Ugandan rebels attacked a base in the restive Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 15 peacekeepers. The UN Security Council said the peacekeepers, who were all from neighboring Tanzania, were killed in the North Kivu province late Thursday, […]
KALININGRAD, Russia (Reuters) — A Siberian tiger called Typhoon attacked a female zoo keeper in Kaliningrad on Sunday (November 5) when she came into the enclosure to feed the animal. The incident happened at noon when the zoo was full of visitors. Why the tiger and the woman were both in the enclosure at the same time, was unclear. The animal attacked her and pushed her on the ground. Terrified eyewitnesses tried to distract the […]
by Laura Bonilla Cal and Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians before striking a school bus, in the city’s first deadly attack blamed on terror since September 11, 2001. Eleven others were seriously hurt when the truck driver struck in broad daylight just blocks from the 9/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, close to schools as children […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — At least 10 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on worshippers in a Shiite mosque in Kabul on Friday as they gathered for evening prayers, officials said, the latest attack to hit the Afghan capital. An attacker “entered the mosque in Police District 13 of Kabul city… (and) opened fire on worshippers,” Kabul Crime Branch chief General Mohammad Salim Almas told AFP, describing the gunman as a suicide bomber. […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (Reuters) — At least 20 people were in critical condition and more than one hundred were still being treated for injuries ranging from high-caliber gunshot wounds to blunt force trauma at a hospital in Las Vegas on Tuesday (Oct. 3) following the mass shooting on Sunday night. “There are some devastating wounds,” said Dr. Douglas Fraser, vice chair of the University Medical Center trauma division. “This was a very high-caliber weapon […]
by Cyril Julien with Frankie Taggart in Mesquite Agence France Presse LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — America mourned victims of the worst gun massacre in recent US history Tuesday as investigators probed the motive behind an apparently senseless attack on Las Vegas concert-goers. President Donald Trump branded the attacker — who raked a crowd with gunfire from a 32nd floor hotel room, leaving 59 dead and at least 527 injured — a “demented man.” […]
by Michaela Cancella-Kieffer and Hui Min Neo MADRID, Spain (AFP) — An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid’s National Court, which deals with terror-related cases, over the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A knife attacker stabbed eight people on the street in Russia’s far northern city of Surgut before being shot by police, investigators said Saturday. The attacker “carried out attacks on passers-by, causing stab wounds to eight,” Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes said, adding that armed police then “liquidated” the attacker.
BARCELONA, United States (AFP) — Spanish and world leaders on Thursday condemned the Barcelona van attack, expressing outrage and solidarity with the victims. Spain The Spanish royal family issued an unusually strongly-worded statement: They are assassins, criminals who won’t terrorize us. All of Spain is Barcelona.” FC Barcelona said it was “deeply saddened” by the tragedy and the team’s talismanic striker Lionel Messi said separately that people must reject “any act of violence.” “There are […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump appeared Thursday to endorse the idea of mass executions for Islamist extremists, as he alluded to a widely debunked account of summary punishment by a US general in the Philippines in the early 1900s. It was another provocative tweet from an increasingly isolated leader who uses Twitter to take shots at perceived opponents — and even announce big policy changes. Thursday’s tweet also suggested Trump actually believes […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — The driver of a van that mowed into a packed street in Barcelona, killing at least 13 people, is still on the run, Spanish police said Thursday. Josep Lluis Trapero of the regional police of Catalonia, where the popular seaside city is located, told reporters that two other people suspected of being involved in Thursday’s terror attack had been arrested — a Spaniard and a Moroccan. © Agence France-Presse
