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Migrant crisis: Turkish guards hit migrant boat with sticks
The incident is said to have happened in Turkish waters as the migrants were on their way to the island of Lesbos. The migrants accused the coastguard of attacking them, but the coastguard say they were trying to stop the boat without harming the occupants. The EU and Turkey are discussing new moves to curb the flow of...
SEE IT: Georgia store clerk fights off gun-toting robber with bare hands, hammer
She brought a hammer to a gunfight — and won. A Georgia convenience store clerk fought off a pistol-packing teenage robber with her bare hands and then chased him out of her shop with a hammer, harrowing surveillance video showed. “I said, ‘Go ahead. You wanna shoot me? Go ahead,’” Keysville...
MH370: Another possible piece of debris found in Mozambique
Another piece of plane debris has been discovered on the coast of Mozambique, an Australian aviation official told CNN on Friday. The newly revealed debris, found by a South African family vacationing in the east African country, will be examined by investigators to establish if it may have come from Malaysia Airlines Flight...
New slow-motion video shows LaVoy Finicum with hands up as bullets hit truck (VIDEO)
New video footage was released Tuesday evening of the encounter between Oregon protesters and law enforcement that left Robert “LaVoy” Finicum dead. The video gave some greater insight into Finicum’s last minutes before he was shot and killed, but The Oregonian stepped it up a notch, zoomed in and slowed the...
Houston 4-year-old suffers severe brain damage after being sedated at dentist
A little girl’s life has been changed forever after a trip to the dentist left her with severe brain damage. Nevaeh Hall, 4, has been left unable to speak or walk after sedation at Houston’s Diamond Dentistry went terribly wrong in early January. Her mother Courissa told KHOU that the girl went to Dr. Bethaniel...
Woman arrested after smuggling stash of cocaine inside her BREASTS
A YOUNG woman has been arrested at an international airport after she tried to smuggle a stash of cocaine inside her own breasts. The 24-year-old mother-of-three now faces years behind bars after the drug bust — of her bust. The woman from Colombia had complained to Frankfurt airport officials about severe breast pain....
North Korea ‘fires short-range missiles’
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea's military has said. It said the missiles, launched off the east coast, flew some 500km (310 miles) and fell into the water. Shortly after the launch, Pyongyang announced it "nullifies" all inter-Korean cooperative projects and will...
SPAIN TERROR WARNING: New ISIS threat revealed for holidaymakers in the Costa del Sol
BRITISH sunseekers are being warned to expect a terror attack in popular Spanish resorts as the annual rush to bag bargain holiday deals in the run up to the summer gets underway. SPAIN TERROR WARNING: New ISIS threat revealed for holidaymakers in the Costa del Sol A leading security expert has issued a warning for a...
North Korea attempts horror cyber terror attack on the South’s train network
NORTH Korea has tried to attack South Korea’s transport system by hacking into railway workers' emails, spy chiefs say. Bosses at South Korea’s National Intelligence Service issued a statement overnight saying they had managed to stop the brazen attempts. The agency issued the statement after an emergency...
Former Ottawa man killed in Libya was not an extremist, spokesman says: ‘He was absolutely normal’
TORONTO — A former Ottawa resident killed in clashes in Benghazi was inside a building hit by a crude barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to a Libyan general, a spokesman for a Canadian-Libyan group said Monday. “Apparently a bomb fell on that building and the building collapsed on them,” said Khaled...
Toronto boxer among two Canadians killed in Dubai Ferrari crash that took the lives of four people
Soon after arriving in Dubai a few days ago, Cody Nixon couldn’t resist mugging for the camera in his rental car, a low-slung, open-roof Ferrari. “Just landed into Dubai picked up the Ferrari! Don’t worry I won’t speed ;)” he wrote on Instagram. Nixon, 24, was travelling with his good buddy and...
2,000 weapons found on fishing boat
An Australian naval ship has seized a large arms cache that may have come from Iran and headed to Yemen by way of Somalia. The Australian Navy said that one of its ships patrolling the region, the HMAS Darwin, intercepted a small, stateless fishing vessel about 170 nautical miles off the coast of Oman when it made the...