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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism. The location of Hamza bin Laden, sometimes dubbed the “crown prince of jihad,” has been the subject of speculation for years with reports of him living in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria or under house arrest in Iran. “Hamza bin Laden is […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A Canadian woman found guilty of terror crimes for trying to join the Islamic State group and in its name attacking staff at a department store was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison. Rehab Dughmosh, 34, was arrested in June 2017 and later convicted of leaving the country for the purpose of joining a terror group, and assaults with a golf club and a butcher knife, and carrying an archery […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has urged Filipinos in Libya to exercise caution when they travel following the spate of attacks there. The DFA issued the advisory even as it announced that tensions from the recent clashes in Tripoli had disappeared, and that the situation had returned to normal. The agency said no Filipinos were affected in the latest clashes. “But anywhere when clashes take place, there is always the danger to […]
by Matthieu DEMEESTERE Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town. This week, he will go on trial for four anti-Semitic murders during a shooting spree at Belgium’s Jewish Museum. […]
by Clément Zampa Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A shadow creeps behind two visitors just inside the Jewish museum in Brussels. A man emerges, arm extended as he fires a pistol into their necks. The first bullet kills Emanuel Riva, the second, his wife Miriam, with the couple dropping to the floor in a ghoulish scene captured by the museum’s security cameras. Neither Israeli tourist sees the shooter coming as they are engrossed […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Ethnic Rakhine rebels carried out pre-dawn attacks on four police stations near the Bangladesh border, Myanmar’s army said Friday, with the militants claiming to have taken 14 “prisoners of war” as operations ramped up. The western state has seen a surge in violence in recent weeks between the rebels from the Arakan Army (AA) and security forces, displacing thousands. It has added a new dimension to the violence in a state […]
(Eagle News) — The ambush of soldiers providing relief to victims of a typhoon in Northern Samar, the armed attack on a police station in Lapinig, and the massacre of nine farmers in Sagay in October are only some of the incidents that prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to order the deployment of additional troops to selected parts of the country. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who issued a statement on Friday, Nov. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 20, said a US official’s attack on the International Criminal Court was “quite refreshing.” Duterte, who himself criticized the body, was referring to the pronouncements of US National Security Adviser John Bolton, who declared the ICC “dead to America and “illegitimate,” and described it as “ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed outright dangerous.” Bolton made the statements as the ICC was preparing to probe what it said was detainee […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – A 32-year-old woman appeared in court in France on Wednesday accused of fraud after allegedly falsely claiming to be a victim of the Paris jihadist attacks. The woman had claimed to have been shot in the elbow or thumb, according to different accounts, during the attacks in which 130 people died and hundreds more were wounded at the national stadium and Paris nightspots on November 13, 2015. She said that two […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines has condemned the suicide bomb attacks at three churches in Surabaya, Indonesia on Sunday, May 13 that killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens. “The Philippines strongly condemns these criminal acts that were carried out against innocent churchgoers,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a statement. “We join the people of Indonesia in mourning those who lost their lives in the terrorist bombings of several churches in Surabaya […]
(Eagle News) — Some lawyers’ groups have asked the United Nations Special Rapporteur to “take urgent action” on President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncements that they allege “punctuate the long-winded attacks on judicial independence…” “The recent tirades of the President against the Chief Justice do not sound at all foreboding..,” the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Alternative Law Groups, the leftist National Union of People’s Lawyers, Ateneo Human Rights Center, Free Legal Assistance Group, Manananggol Laban sa […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A study of 21 American diplomats who claimed they were victims of mysterious sonic attacks in Cuba shows they sustained brain injuries without any apparent head trauma, US researchers said Thursday. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine examined 21 US government staff members who complained of symptoms resembling a concussion after serving in Havana in 2016 and 2017. “These individuals appeared to have sustained injury to widespread brain networks […]
