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Police Hunt For The Gunman Who Killed UnitedHealthCare’s Boss In Manhattan
Investigators are searching for clues that could help them identify the masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies on a Manhattan sidewalk, then disappeared into Central Park. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual…
Read MoreGermany: Hospital worker shot dead with a crossbow
As assailant reportedly entered a hospital in central Germany armed with a crossbow and killed a female employee, police said on Thursday. The victim, a 50-year-old woman, was wounded so severely she died “despite immediate medical care” at the hospital in Bad Zwesten in the state of Hesse. What we know so far According to…
Read MoreYoon Replaces The Defense Minister As South Korea’s Parliament Moves To Vote On Their Impeachments
South Korea’s president replaced his defense minister Thursday as opposition parties moved to impeach both men over the stunning-but-brief imposition of martial law that brought armed troops into Seoul streets. The Democratic Party and other small opposition parties submitted a joint motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over his martial law declaration…
Read MoreSyrian Insurgents Say They Have Entered The City Of Hama After Fierce Fighting
Syrian insurgents said Thursday they have entered parts of the central city of Hama after three days of intense clashes with government forces on its outskirts, part of an ongoing offensive in which they seized Syria’s largest city of Aleppo. Syrian state media confirmed violent clashes between government forces and opposition gunmen on the eastern…
Read MoreGunman May Have Targeted California Religious School In Shooting That Wounded 2 Kindergarteners
Two children were in “extremely critical condition” after being shot at a tiny religious K-8 school in Northern California and the gunman died at the scene, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said. The gunman may have targeted the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo on Wednesday because of its religious affiliation, but…
Read MoreMan Accused Of Alleged War Crimes In Separatist Region Of Ukraine Stands Trial In Finland
A man has gone on trial in Finland on charges of war crimes allegedly committed against Ukrainian forces in a Russia-backed separatist region of Ukraine in 2014. Prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for the defendant at the trial which opened Thursday at the Helsinki district court, public broadcaster YLE reported. The suspect’s name was not…
Read MoreDefence for alleged terror propagandist calls prosecution speculative, tenuous
The defence team for an alleged terror propagandist argued Tuesday that the Crown’s case is built on shaky ground, with tenuous links between the accused’s camera and racist videos found online, and shoddy testimony from a Crown expert on right-wing extremism. Patrick Gordon Macdonald, 27, is charged with participating in the terrorist activity of Atomwaffen…
Read MoreCalifornia Man Arrested for Allegedly Exporting Shipments of Firearms, Ammunition and Other Military Items to North Korea
Shenghua Wen, 41, of Ontario, California, was arrested today on a criminal complaint alleging that he exported shipments of firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea that were concealed inside shipping containers bound from Long Beach. Wen, a Chinese national illegally residing in the United States, was arrested this morning and is expected…
Read MoreReport: Texas man planned to attack church with improvised explosive devices, multiple guns
A Texas man who was arrested last week after officers found explosive devices and guns in his van allegedly told them he had planned to attack a local church, according to an incident report obtained by WFAA. The incident report filed by the Fort Worth Fire Department said White Settlement police believed they had discovered…
Read MoreExtremist Rebels Linked To Is Kill At Least 9 And Kidnap 3 In Eastern Congo
Extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group killed at least 9 people, including an 8-month-old baby and a 14-year-old girl in eastern Congo and kidnapped several others, authorities said on Wednesday. Rebels with the Allied Democratic Forces attacked civilians in Tenambo village in the North Kivu province on Tuesday evening, Colonel Mak Hazukay, spokesperson…
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