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Dallas shooting: Gunman ‘wanted to kill whites’ says police chief
The gunman killed in a stand-off with Dallas police said he was upset about the police shootings of black people and wanted to kill white officers, the city's police chief has said. The suspect told police that he was working alone, Police Chief David Brown told reporters. Five Dallas police officers were killed and seven...
Suicide Bombers Kill 5 in Eastern Lebanon, Near Syria Border
A group of suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a northeastern Lebanese village near the border with Syria on Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 15, a Lebanese military official and paramedics said. The National News Agency said the blasts occurred in the predominantly Christian village of Qaa, only few...
Dozens dead after Filipino president vowed to ‘kill drug dealing sons of bitches’
THE trigger-happy president elect of the Philippines who vowed to “kill” drug dealers looks to have made good on his promise as scores of criminals have allegedly died at the hands of police in recent weeks. Rodrigo Duterte called drug dealers “sons of bitches” and referred to himself as a one man...
‘Shield’ Actor Michael Jace Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder
"The Shield" actor Michael Jace has been found guilty of murdering his wife. A jury convicted the actor — who had pleaded not guilty — of second degree murder and intentionally discharging a firearm. According to the Associated Press, Jace, 53, told investigators that he didn't mean to kill his wife,...
European migrant crisis:: Shipwrecks ‘kill up to 700 migrants’
Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says. The boats sank south of Italy on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as the migrants tried to reach Europe in unseaworthy vessels. Spring weather has led to a surge of people attempting the...
Syrian government strikes on two rebel-held areas kill 23: monitor
Syrian warplanes bombed the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus and parts of Aleppo in the north on Saturday, killing 23 people, with the death toll likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mediators have struggled to get combatants in Syria's five-year-old war to honour a Feb. 27 cessation of...
Mumbai: Indian man ‘kills 14 members of family’
A 35-year-old Indian man killed 14 members of his own family, including seven children and his parents, before killing himself, police say. Reports suggest Hasnin Warekar laced his family's food with sedatives before slitting their throats. Neighbours from the home in Thane, near Mumbai, were alerted to the attack by...
‘I don’t feel guilty’: Nazi Holocaust mastermind Eichmann’s last clemency letter released
Nazi Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann who was executed by Israel back in 1962 for numerous war crimes, considered himself “a mere instrument in the hands of the leaders,” a letter to the then-president asking for clemency reveals. The information was released on Wednesday by the office of Israel's President...