Knife-wielding Russian convicts take prison staff hostage and kill one guard

A group of prisoners identifying themselves as Islamic State militants seized hostages in a maximum security jail in Russia’s southern Volgograd region and killed at least one member of staff, the country’s prison service said. “During a session of a disciplinary commission, convicts took staff of the penal institution as hostages,” the prison service said in a…

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Arson investigated at East Baltimore biker hangout probed in connection to Sunday mass shooting

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/21/tension-between-biker-group-oliver-residents-boils-over-after-sunday-shooting-that-killed-1-injured-7/ Baltimore Police detectives were investigating potential arson Thursday at the scene of Sunday’s mass shooting in Oliver after a biker hangout there caught fire the night before. The building at 1301 N. Spring St., which regularly hosted motorcycle club gatherings including a Sunday evening vigil that preceded the violence, caught fire around 10 p.m.…

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MS-13 gang member pleads guilty to murder of autistic woman in Aberdeen

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/22/ms-13-gang-member-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-autistic-woman-in-aberdeen/ A 19-year-old who officials say illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 pleaded guilty Wednesday in Harford County Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the strangulation death of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old Aberdeen woman with high functioning autism. Walter Javier Martinez was 17 when he was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-…

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Germany investigates drone flights over industrial park

Investigators in northern Germany confirmed on Thursday that they were investigating suspicious drone activity over an industrial park in Brunsbüttel, following media reports about the case. “The Flensburg public prosecutor’s office confirms the launching of an investigation due to the suspicion of espionage activity for sabotage purposes, in connection with repeated drone flights over critical…

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NATO air base in Germany raises security level due to ‘potential threat’

The NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen has raised its security level “based on intelligence information indicating a potential threat,” it said late on Thursday. A spokesperson for the base in Geilenkirchen said the threat level had been raised to Charlie, the second-highest of four states of alert, which is defined as…

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Somalia’s bomb disposal experts face down fear to save lives

Wearing a bulky protective suit and helmet, Mohamed Ahmed inches towards the truck where explosives wired to a mobile phone have been planted in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Bombings using this technique, or suicide attacks with vehicles, are a common occurrence in Somalia, where insurgents linked to al Qaeda have been fighting the government since 2007.…

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Tension between biker group, Oliver residents boils over after Sunday shooting that killed 1, injured 7

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/21/tension-between-biker-group-oliver-residents-boils-over-after-sunday-shooting-that-killed-1-injured-7/ Residents of Oliver believed they had come to an understanding with a group of bikers who regularly met near a small park at the center of the East Baltimore neighborhood. But those tensions were front and center again this week as police investigate motorcycle club members’ connection to a Sunday shooting near their hangout…

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FBI probes insect attack on Democratic breakfast in Chicago

Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. “We were all coming down to breakfast, and there were these two women who had hidden themselves in the bathroom,” a witness said. “And they ran out and threw maggots…

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