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PARIS, France (AFP) — The suspect who killed at least two people and injured 11 at Strasbourg’s market on Tuesday was due to be arrested by police earlier in the day over a separate attempted murder, a source close to the investigation said. Police said the suspected gunman was known to authorities and was on France’s “S” watchlist of suspected extremists. © Agence France-Presse
PARIS, France (AFP) — A gunman killed at least two people and seriously injured another 11 near the famed market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday before fleeing the scene, security officials said. Police launched a manhunt after the killer opened fire at around 7pm local time (1800 GMT), sending crowds of evening shoppers fleeing for safety. Soldiers patrolling the area as part of regular anti-terror operations exchanged fire with the gunman and […]
WAMEMA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian security forces have retrieved the bodies of 16 people in the aftermath of a massacre by suspected separatist rebels in restive Papua province, the military said Thursday. The confirmed deaths, believed to be of construction workers, mark the deadliest bout of violence in years to hit a region wracked by a low-level independence insurgency. The bodies will be evacuated to the town of Timika from the remote district of Nduga, […]
by Staf Steel Agence France Presse WAMENA, Indonesia (AFP) — An Indonesian soldier was killed while investigating reports that more than two dozen construction workers were shot dead by separatist rebels in restive Papua province, officials said Tuesday. If confirmed, the killings would mark the deadliest bout of violence in years to hit a region wracked for decades by a low-level independence insurgency. Citing local police, Indonesian media reported late Monday that the workers were […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A California woman was behind bars on Wednesday for beating and choking a McDonald’s manager after discovering there wasn’t enough ketchup in her order, police said. Mayra Berenice Gallo, 24, apparently went into a rage on October 27 after ordering food through the drive-through at the fast food outlet in the town of Santa Ana. Police spokesman Anthony Bertagna told AFP that an infuriated Gallo stormed into the restaurant […]
(Eagle News)–National Capital Region Police Office Director Guillermo Eleazar has relieved the entire anti-drug unit of the Las Pinas police. Eleazar made the move to relieve the more than 30 police officers, including the unit chief, after some operatives allegedly demanded money in exchange for the release of a drug suspect. Operatives of the Southern Police District failed to arrest the four policemen involved in the crime in an entrapment operation, but managed to nab […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — An armed gang abducted an Italian woman from a village in southeast Kenya, shooting and wounding five residents in the raid, police said Wednesday. “The attackers fired indiscriminately at residents” before kidnapping the 23-year-old, who worked as a volunteer at an orphanage, during the attack after dark on Tuesday evening at Chakama, a small village in the coastal Kilifi county, police said in a statement. Three children were among those injured, […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — An argument in a hospital parking lot escalated into a shooting that killed three people, including a police officer, in the US city of Chicago on Monday. The violence only ended when police engaged in shootout with the gunman inside Mercy Hospital. “We have four deceased individuals: police officer, two female staff employees at the hospital, and the offender,” police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told journalists. The shooter killed the first […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A gunman opened fire Monday at a hospital in the US city of Chicago, police said, adding that there were reports of “multiple victims” including a wounded officer in “critical condition.” “Reports of shots fired in the vicinity of 26th and Michigan near Mercy Hospital. Avoid area. Heavy police response incoming,” Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted. At least “one possible offender” had been shot at the hospital in the […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered on October 2 in his country’s consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was drugged, dismembered and then transferred out of the consulate, Riyadh’s public prosecution said on Thursday. Here is what we know about the Saudi nationals allegedly involved in the murder that has provoked an international outcry. – 21 suspects – – […]
by Anuj Chopra with Paul Handley in Washington Agence France Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — The Saudi government exonerated the country’s powerful crown prince of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi Thursday as death-penalty charges were announced against five men and the US placed sanctions on 17 suspected of involvement. Riyadh prosecutors announced indictments against 11 people and said a total of 21 individuals were in custody in connection with the […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A woman has been charged after a “complex” investigation into an Australian strawberry scare where needles were found stuck into the fruit, police said Sunday, in a crisis that sparked nationwide panic. Queensland state authorities offered a large reward and the national government raised jail terms for such crimes after sewing needles were found in plastic boxes of the fruit sold in supermarkets in September. Since the first case came […]
