U.S.-led airstrikes killed at least 28 civilians, including seven children, in Syria on Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The attack happened in al-Ghandour near Manbij, just one day after the U.S. announced a formal inquiry into airstrikes in the same area that may have led to the single largest...
An F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet crashed near Twentynine Palms, California, last night, killing the pilot on board. According to the Marine Corps, the pilot was conducting a training mission out of Air Station Miramar, just north of San Diego. The crash occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time. The Marine Corps said in a...
About two dozen Chinese relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Friday staged a small protest outside China's Foreign Ministry calling on governments to continue searching for the plane. The relatives gathered outside the ministry in Beijing and demanded to see the foreign minister to...
Родственники террориста из Ниццы сообщили о нем важные сведения Семья водителя-террориста Мохаммеда Бухлеля, который убил 84 и ранил 202 человека в ходе теракта в Ницце, отрицает...
US President Barack Obama has delivered a stirring speech at the Democratic convention, hailing Hillary Clinton as his political heir and rounding on "home-grown demagogue" Donald Trump. "There has never been a man or woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary" to be president, he said. When...
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services. The teenagers were shot dead by police outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where...
Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly reject this". But she did propose new...
JUST one extremist in Britain is under curfew despite there being more than 2,000 terror suspects in the UK, it has been revealed. The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, known as T-Pims, is used by the police and MI5 to keep surveillance on terror suspects who are yet to be deported. But, as of May this year, the...
JEAN-Claude Juncker’s chief Brexit negotiator’s role has been dismissed by a former cabinet member. Sir Malcolm Rifkind said former French foreign minister Michel Barnier was a “tough guy”. But the former foreign secretary played down Barnier’s role in the Brexit negotiations, claiming Theresa May...
About 70 members of Russia's Olympic team have left a Moscow airport for Brazil to take part in Rio 2016 while others stay at home, banned for doping. Members of the volleyball, handball, boxing, synchronised swimming and table tennis teams were seen off at Sheremetyevo Airport. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) wanted...
The Japanese city of Hiroshima has asked Pokemon Go's creators to keep its virtual monsters out of memorials to victims of the atomic bomb. It wants the monsters removed by 6 August, when an annual ceremony is held on the anniversary of the 1945 bombing. It follows a request by the operators of the Fukushima nuclear plant...
Health officials in Florida are investigating four cases of Zika that do not appear to be related to travel. So far cases outside of Latin America and the Caribbean, where the virus is prevalent, have been spread by travel to that region or sexual transmission. The four Florida cases have raised the possibility that mosquitoes...