Archive for March 2024
Maryland 13-year-olds who ‘displayed swastikas’ charged with hate crime
Three middle school students from Calvert County, Maryland, have been charged with violating the state’s hate crime laws, officials say. The 13-year-olds attending Plum Point Middle School in Huntingtown, Maryland, were charged after they “displayed swastikas, made Nazi salutes, and directed offensive comments to a classmate because of the classmate’s religious beliefs,” according to a…
Read More11 Killed in Suspected IS Attack on Syria Truffle Hunters: Monitor
An attack by the Islamic State group (IS) killed at least 11 people hunting desert truffles in northern Syria on Sunday, a war monitor said, after the latest such incident. Between February and April each year, hundreds of impoverished Syrians risk their lives to forage for the delicacy in the vast Syrian desert — a…
Read MoreKuriga kidnap: Nigerian pupils taken in mass abduction freed
Nigerian pupils taken by gunmen in a mass abduction in the north-western town of Kuriga earlier this month have been freed “unharmed”, officials say. Kaduna state governor Uba Sani said they had been rescued thanks to the courage of the security forces. The school authorities had said more than 280 children were taken, but the…
Read More2 suspects in Moscow concert hall terrorist attack appear in court
Two suspects in connection to the deadly Moscow concert hall terrorist attack appeared in the city’s district court Sunday night. The Associated Press (AP) reported that two of the suspects in the concert hall shooting that left more than 130 people dead on Friday appeared in the Basmanny District Court on Sunday night. The AP…
Read MoreThree Rio officials arrested in connection with Marielle Franco killing
For years, Brazil has asked the question, “Who ordered Marielle’s killing?” Ever since the 2018 killing of the leftist politician and human rights activist Marielle Franco, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazilians have plastered that question on T-shirts, spray painted it on walls and posted it on social media. The name Marielle became a rallying…
Read MoreTop Russian agency investigating assault on concert hall as a terrorist attack
Russia’s top investigative agency is investigating the shootings, explosions and fire at a Moscow concert hall as a terrorist attack. The Investigative Committee said it has opened a criminal probe into the charges, though it didn’t say who might be behind the attack. Several gunmen burst into a big concert hall on the edge of…
Read MoreMiddletown ‘sovereign citizen’ gets prison for guns inside Langhorne-Yardley Road home
A “sovereign citizen” who rejects government authority and drew the attention of Middletown police, neighbors and motorists passing his Langhorne house was sentenced from 28 to 56 years in state prison Wednesday for illegally possessing a cache of high-powered firearms. At his trial in Doylestown, Bucks County, authorities testified about discovering the high-powered firearms that…
Read MoreRussia Attacks Ukrainian Electrical Power Facilities, Including Major Hydroelectric Plant
Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages and killing at least three people, officials said Friday. Energy Minister German Galushchenko said the nighttime drone and rocket attacks were “the largest attack on the Ukrainian energy sector in recent times. The goal is not just…
Read MorePolice Track Down Escaped Idaho Prison Gang Member And Accomplice, Say Pair May Have Killed 2 On Run
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, the…
Read MoreIslamic State group claims responsibility for bombing at Afghan bank and says it targeted Taliban
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that targeted people trying to collect their salaries at a bank in southern Afghanistan. The bombing Thursday at a branch of New Kabul Bank in Kandahar city killed three people and wounded 12 others. All of the victims had gathered there to collect their monthly…
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