KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Eight people were injured after a hand grenade was thrown at a restaurant in Malaysia’s central Selangor state, police said Tuesday, citing business rivalry rather than terrorism as the likely motive. Abdul Rahim Jaafar, state deputy police chief, told AFP that the attack on the Movida restaurant in busy Puchong district was probably the result of a business conflict or revenge. “Eight people were injured in the hand grenade attack […]
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Democrats get US Senate to consider gun control measures
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Senate Democrats claimed a small victory early Thursday, forcing the US upper house to consider legislation to help keep guns out of the hands of terrorism suspects. The move, which could break a years-long logjam on gun control, follows demands for action after the weekend massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida. Democrats took to the floor of the Republican-controlled Senate Wednesday to launch […]
Indian sand artist pays tribute to victims of Florida mass killing
ODISHA, India (Reuters) — A sand artist in India has paid tribute to victims of Florida mass killing with a sculpture created on Puri Beach in eastern Odisha state on Monday (June 13). The artist’s sculpture read “One world, one message, end terrorism” on the five feet high sand sculpture. A number of tourists gathered at the beach to watch the sculpture being created. The shooting claimed the lives of 50 people, including the […]
IS claims Orlando shooting in radio bulletin
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) –The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for the Orlando shooting that killed 50 people, saying in a radio bulletin that it was carried out by “one of the soldiers of the caliphate”. “Allah allowed Omar Mateen, one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America, to carry out an attack entering a crusader gathering in a night club… in Orlando in Florida, killing and wounding more than 100 of them,” a bulletin […]
Grief mixes with defiance as a shaken Orlando deals with attack
ORLANDO, United States (AFP) –The people of Orlando grieved and remembered the dead after a gunman murdered 50 people at a gay nightclub in the Florida city, but there was also defiance in the face of tragedy. On Sunday evening many relatives kept anxious vigils at the bedsides of wounded loved ones at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Angel Colon emerged from the hospital thankful to have found his son Angel Jr, 26, alive and in stable condition […]
Orlando massacre thrusts terror threat into White House race
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — White House hopeful Donald Trump appeared bent on exploiting Sunday’s massacre in Orlando to boost the argument that he can be trusted to tackle terrorism over rival Hillary Clinton. With many victims of the carnage yet to be identified, and police still probing the suspected Islamist ties of the slain gunman, Trump wasted no time in harnessing the assault to his political advantage. The presumptive Republican nominee […]
Iran: Saudi the real ‘terrorism sponsor’
Iranian flags. (File photo) Tehran, Iran (AFP)—Tehran on Sunday dismissed its renewed blacklisting by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism, charging that it was United States allies including Riyadh that were the real culprits. The Iranian foreign ministry noted its role in neighboring Iraq supporting the government against the Islamic State jihadist group independently of a US-led coalition, as well as its backing for the Syrian regime against jihadists and other rebels, some […]
Suicide bomber kills six at Iraq Shiite mosque
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) Friday 4/22/2016 – A suicide bomber targeted Shiite worshippers at a Baghdad mosque after Friday prayers, killing at least six people, security and medical officials said. The attack in southwest Baghdad also wounded at least 25 people, the officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State jihadist group carries out frequent suicide bombings targeting Shiites, whom it considers heretics. IS overran swathes of territory north and […]
Three Brussels attackers identified as nation mourns
by Danny Kemp and Lachlan Carmichael BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Three suicide bombers who struck Brussels airport and a metro train in attacks claimed by the Islamic State were identified Wednesday, as a grieving nation observed a minute’s silence for victims of the carnage. As hundreds of mourners gathered in the city in a show of solidarity with the 31 people killed and 300 injured, prosecutors said brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui […]
Key Paris attacks suspect charged
Brussels, Belgium (AFP)—Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was formally charged Saturday with “terrorist murder” and being part of a terrorist group, the Belgian federal prosecutors office said. “(He…has) been charged by the investigating judge with participation in terrorist murder and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization,” a prosecutors statement said. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
Two suicide bombers kill 15 at Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad on Thursday (February 25), killing at least 15 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. Fifty other people were wounded in the blast in the predominantly Shi’ite Shuala neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources said. The first bomber detonated his vest inside the mosque and the second blew himself up when security forces gathered […]
Blast hits Turkish cultural center in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) — An explosion severely damaged part of a building that housed a Turkish cultural association in a Stockholm suburb late on Wednesday (February 17) but no one was injured, police said. Police said all the windows of the center were blown out and that technicians were on site to investigate the cause. The center was located in the basement of a building in Fittja, in southwest Stockholm. A police spokesman said no […]
