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by Marina KORENEVA SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Eleven people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro Monday, with the Kremlin saying it bore “all the hallmarks of an attack.” Authorities shut down the metro system in Russia’s second city for several hours as security services said they had also defused a bomb at a second metro station. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it was probing an “act of […]
by Paul HANDLEY / Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington’s fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools. A CIA spokeswoman would not confirm the authenticity of the materials published a day earlier by WikiLeaks, which said they were leaked from the spy agency’s […]
by Nazeer al-Khatib with Rana Moussaoui in Beirut Agence France Presse AL BAB, Syria (AFP) — An Islamic State group suicide bomber killed 51 people outside Syria’s Al-Bab on Friday, in a major blow just hours after rebels seized the town from the jihadists. In a statement distributed online, the group said its suicide bomber “drove his car bomb into the middle of a gathering of Turkish soldiers and apostates working in Susian”. At least […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) — Residents in Baghdad’s Hayy al-Shurta neighborhood were on Friday morning (February 17) assessing the damage caused to their properties by a car bomb blast which occurred on late Thursday (February 16). A car packed with explosives blew up there, killing at least 51 people and wounding 55, security and medical sources said, in the deadliest such attack in Iraq this year. Security sources said the vehicle which blew up was parked […]
SEHWAN, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan, officials said, after a series of attacks which have shaken optimism over recent improvements in security. The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far in 2017, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of the […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 13 people were killed and 82 injured when an apparent Taliban suicide blast ripped through a protest in Lahore on Monday, Pakistani officials said, shattering the city’s growing sense of security. Police cordoned off the area near the crowded Mall Road, one of the city’s main arteries, as witnesses fled in fear of a second explosion. Local media showed images of the injured being carried away. The road had […]
by Yemeli Ortega Agence France Presse TULTEPEC, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico worked Wednesday to identify charred bodies left by an explosion that killed at least 33 people at its biggest fireworks market, as authorities investigated what caused the multi-colored salvo of destruction. Rescue workers were still searching for bodies — or survivors — in the smoldering wreckage of the San Pablito market in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec. Dazed family members wandered outside […]
by Sofia Miselem/ Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias Agence France Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A massive explosion gutted Mexico’s biggest fireworks market Tuesday, killing at least 29 people and injuring 70, authorities said. The conflagration, in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec, set off a quick-fire series of multicolored blasts and a sent a vast cloud of smoke billowing over the capital city. The market had been packed with customers buying pyrotechnics for traditional end-of-year […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A massive explosion gutted Mexico’s biggest fireworks market Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring 70, police said. The conflagration, in the suburb of Tultepec, set off a quickfire series of multicolored blasts and a vast cloud of smoke that hung over Mexico City. The market was packed at the time with customers buying pyrotechnics for traditional end-of-year festivities. Christmas and New Year’s parties in many Latin American countries […]
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Biibigyan ng psycho-social intervention ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and mga nagkaroon ng trauma na mga saksi at mga sugatang biktima ng pagbobomba sa Roxas City night market dito sa lungsod ng Davao. Pinangunahan nina DSWD Undersecretaries Mateo G. Montaño at Vilma B. Cabrera, kasama ang kanilang DSWD team, ang pag-alam sa kondisyon ng mga naging biktima ng pagsabog sa Roxas night market. Inalam rin nila ang mga […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 7) – Bloodshed struck Davao City after the tragic bombing left 15 dead and 70 injured. Witnesses said they heard a loud bang followed by smoke. Also the blast came from the massage area of the market in the middle of the street. The Police investigators fanned out on Sunday in search of the three persons of interest. Two women and a man described by the witnesses to be in his 40’s with medium […]
DAVAO CITY (Sept. 3) — President Rodrigo R. Duterte has placed the country under a “state of lawlessness” hours after the deadly blast in a night market here in Davao City, as he authorized the police and military to conduct security searches in cars and frisking of individuals in checkpoints. Duterte clarified the state of lawlessness is not martial law and does not involve the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. “State of […]
