Archive for April 14, 2026
Gunman opens fire at high school in Turkey, wounding at least 16
A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, an official said. The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly at a vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province, before hiding inside the building. He later killed himself with the same…
Read MoreU.K. inquiry lays bare ‘catastrophic’ missed chances before stabbings at dance class
A mass killing by a British teenager who fatally stabbed three girls and seriously wounded 10 other people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in 2024 “could and should have been prevented” if his parents and state agencies had acted as his well-known fixation on violence escalated, according to a report released Monday. Adrian Fulford,…
Read More3 Teens Face Charges After Threatening Clinton Middle School Shooting; Multiple Firearms Secured
A reported threat of a shooting at the Clinton Middle School cafeteria led to multiple juveniles being investigated and firearms secured in the Town of Kirkland. According to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded at 1:42 a.m. on April 11 to an address in Kirkland after a threat was made about a shooting planned…
Read MoreLebanon and Israel to hold rare direct talks in Washington despite Hezbollah opposition
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington Tuesday for US-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon, but the prospects of an agreement appear slim. Naim Qassem – the leader of pro-Iran Hezbollah, which is battling Israel – called for the talks to be scrapped before they even began, describing them as…
Read MoreBrazil’s former spy chief who fled country arrested by ICE agents in US
When Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for an attempted coup, six other members of his cabinet were also found guilty and all began serving their sentences – except for one. Days before the verdict, Alexandre Ramagem, Bolsonaro’s former spy chief, fled by car to Guyana and boarded…
Read MoreSuspect in attack at Sam Altman’s house aimed to kill OpenAI CEO, warned of humanity’s extinction from AI
A man accused of throwing a lit Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home last week was trying to kill him, and was motivated by hatred of artificial intelligence technology, prosecutors said Monday. The suspect, Daniel Moreno-Gama, is being charged with attempted murder in the case, the San Francisco District Attorney…
Read MoreMan faces arson charges after setting large wooden cross on fire outside Dauphin County church, police say
A man was charged after setting a cross on fire outside a Dauphin County church on Saturday, according to the Steelton Borough Police Department. Officers were called to North Second and Pine streets around 5:30 p.m. and found a large wooden cross on fire in front of St. John’s Lutheran Church, according to officials. Investigators…
Read MoreFrench cement maker convicted of financing terror groups to keep its Syria plant working
A French court has fined the cement group Lafarge more than €1m (£870,000) and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to Islamic State and other terror groups to maintain its business in war-torn Syria from 2013 to 2014. The ruling follows a 2022 case in the United States…
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