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Attack near US consulate in Saudi city of Jeddah
A suspected suicide bomber has died after detonating a device near the US consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, the interior ministry says. Two security officers were slightly injured as they tackled the man, but no one else was hurt. The attack came in the early hours of US Independence Day and shortly before dawn...
Bangladesh attack: Dhaka’s Holey cafe attackers were known to police
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour...
Man Severely Injured by Explosion in New York’s Central Park
A man was severely injured in an explosion in New York's Central Park today, but it was not yet clear what caused the blast, police said. Three men were walking in an area of the park not far from the entrance to the Central Park Zoo when the explosion occurred, severing the foot of one of them, an New York Police...
Florida Officials Investigating Fiery Crash That Left 5 Dead
Authorities were investigating Sunday what caused a driver of a decades-old school bus to run a flashing red light and collide with a tractor-trailer causing both to burst into flames killing five people and injuring 25 others. Speed was not a factor, Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel said Saturday about the early morning...
Police Injured as Residents Protest Incinerator in China
A protest on Sunday against an incinerator in a southern Chinese town turned violent as some people attempted to break into government offices and police were injured, residents and authorities said. The protesters in Lubu town in Guangdong province oppose a project to build an incinerator that would also generate power....
Knife With Blood Found in Home Where Children Killed
Sheriff's deputies found a large butcher knife with what appeared to be blood on it in an apartment where a Tennessee mother killed her four children by cutting their throats, court documents say. Shanynthia Gardner, 29, of Memphis, has been charged with four counts of first degree murder while committing aggravated child...
Анна Седокова отменяет концерты из-за серьезной болезни
Певица Анна Седокова взволновала своих поклонников фотографией, на которой она запечатлена на больничной койке и подключенная к капельницам. Оказалось, девушка лишилась...
Friends and world leaders remember Elie Wiesel
Here are remarks from prominent officials and leaders in response to the death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who died Saturday at age 87. As a writer, a speaker, an activist, and a thinker, he was one of those people who changed the world more as a citizen of the world than those who hold office or traditional...
Baghdad car bombs kill 12
Twelve people were killed and 38 wounded Saturday night when two parked car bombs exploded in separate neighborhoods in Baghdad, police officials said. The first explosion occurred in a busy commercial street in the central neighborhood of Karrada, killing 11 and wounding 33, police said. Firefighting crews rescued injured and...
Terror attack in Bangladesh: The victims
A multi-national crowd was dining when terrorists invaded the trendy restaurant in a diplomatic enclave of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The attackers took hostages and exchanged gunfire with police until soldiers moved in and killed the militants. Twenty people inside the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe were killed, along with...
Britain’s decision to leave EU is in danger of being WATERED DOWN by ‘Europhile fanatics’
BRITAIN’S momentous decision to break away from the European Union could be WATERED DOWN by “pro-EU fanatics” who will not fight for the future the UK, Leave campaigners have warned. Britain’s Leave camp issued the stark warning as they revealed that the Government’s team responsible for the...
‘Speak English’ Polish factory workers banned from speaking mother tongue as it ‘isolates’
EUROPEAN factory workers have been told by bosses to speak English at all times because they were making other workers feel "isolated and intimidated" by speaking in their own tongue. The new policy has been slammed as "unfair and discriminatory" and is said to be causing divisions between Polish and...