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By Laurent GESLIN, with Clement ZAMPA in Lille ARRAS, France, Oct 16, 2023 (AFP) – Schools across France will on Monday hold a minute of silence for the teacher stabbed to death in what President Emmanuel Macron called an act of “Islamist terror”. The nationwide tribute will come a day after thousands gathered in Arras, northeastern France to pay their respects to 57-year-old Dominique Bernard. His killing on Friday has sent shockwaves through the country […]
TOKYO, Sept 29, 2023 (AFP) – A zookeeper at a Japanese safari park died after a lion apparently attacked him as he tried to bring the animal to its cage, police said Friday. Kenichi Kato, a 53-year-old worker at Tohoku Safari Park in the Fukushima region, was found bleeding from his neck and unconscious inside the lion’s cage Thursday afternoon, a local police spokesman told AFP. “It is believed that he was feeding a lion,” […]
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 5, 2023 (AFP) – Ukraine carried out a drone strike overnight on a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, a day after one of Moscow’s ships was hit in the Black Sea, a Ukrainian security source told AFP on Saturday. It was the latest attack around the Black Sea since Moscow exited a deal last month that had protected Ukrainian grain exports despite the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. “Overnight the (Ukrainian […]
By Sergio Blanco Agence France-Presse GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP) — An explosives attack on a police patrol left six people dead and a dozen wounded in one of the regions of Mexico worst hit by drug cartel-related violence, authorities said Wednesday. “It’s an act of brutal terror,” said Enrique Alfaro, governor of the western state of Jalisco. The “cowardly attack” using seven improvised explosive devices targeted police and staff from the state prosecutor’s office in Tlajomulco […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 29, 2023 (AFP) — Saudi authorities were investigating Thursday after an assailant and a security guard were killed in an exchange of gunfire outside the US consulate in Jeddah, the gateway city for the massive hajj pilgrimage taking place in Mecca. The gunman and a Nepalese security guard both died after the exchange of fire outside the consulate on Wednesday evening, officials said, giving no possible motive for the incident. “At […]
ANNECY, France, June 9, 2023 (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said the health of the preschool children badly wounded in a mass knife attack by a Syrian refugee was “heading in the right direction”, as police questioned the attacker. Four children — aged between 22 months and three years old — were stabbed Thursday in a playground in the Alpine town of Annecy, a normally idyllic lakeside spot popular with tourists. While […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese police on Friday detained a suspect who had been holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people including two police officers in a gun and knife attack, an official told AFP. The man was taken into custody outside the farm property near the city of Nakano in Nagano region, with police confirming a fourth fatality overnight — an elderly woman who was found injured at the scene and […]
TOKYO, May 25, 2023 (AFP) – A woman and two male police officers were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack at a farm in central Japan on Thursday, media reported. A suspect, believed to be a farmer in his 30s, was holed up inside a building after the incident, which also left a fourth person injured, the reports said. Residents were urged by authorities to stay indoors in the semi-rural area around the city […]
TUNIS, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – Two worshippers participating in an annual Jewish pilgrimage to a renowned Tunisian synagogue and two members of the security services were shot dead Tuesday in an attack carried out by a police officer, the interior ministry said. Four other visitors to the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba and five more security officers were wounded in the attack before the assailant was also killed, the ministry said. In […]
by Anderson COELHO Agence France-Presse BLUMENAU, Brazil (AFP) — A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as “monstrous.” The attacker, who jumped a wall to get inside, also wounded four other children at the private preschool, known as the Good Shepherd Center, in the city of Blumenau, said […]
(Eagle News)–Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo was hurt in a shooting incident on Saturday, March 4. Authorities said several civilians were also hurt when the suspects attacked in Barangay San Isidro, Pamplona past 9 a.m. Degamo was reportedly attending a 4Ps event when the incident occurred. The Police Regional Office-7 said witnesses described the suspects “in full battle gear” and in “pixelized uniform.” The victims were rushed to the nearest hospital. An investigation is underway.
ALGECIRAS, Spain (AFP) — A church official was killed and a priest seriously wounded late Wednesday when a man wielding a machete stormed two churches in southern Spain, the government said. Prosecutors immediately opened a terror probe into the attack, which took place in the port city of Algeciras in Spain’s southern Andalusia region. “Just after 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) this evening, a man entered the church of San Isidro in Algeciras, where, armed with […]
