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Ukraine-US talks on ending war with Russia start in Saudi Arabia as Kyiv launches huge drone attack
High-stakes talks between senior delegations from Ukraine and the United States on how to end Kyiv’s three-year war with Moscow opened in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hours after Russian air defenses shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over Russia. Two people were killed and 18 were injured, including three children, in the massive drone attack that…
Read MoreFormer President Rodrigo Duterte arrested in the Philippines on an ICC warrant over drug killings
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday on a warrant from the International Criminal Court accusing him of crimes against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office, the Philippine government said. Duterte was taken into custody at the Manila international airport after arriving from Hong Kong with his family, becoming the…
Read MoreToronto bar mass shooting likely random, police say
Nobody was killed but 12 people were injured during a mass shooting in Toronto that police say appears to be random. Three men walked into a bar late Friday evening in the northeast part of the city and began firing weapons, including a rifle, the Toronto Police Service said in a statement. Police have not…
Read MoreMasked suspect uses Molotov cocktails to burn North Charleston Tesla charging stations
Police in North Charleston are searching for a suspect who burned Tesla charging stations at the Tanger Outlets last Friday. Officers were called to the Mellow Mushroom on Tanger Outlet Boulevard for a report of an arson in progress on Mar. 7 at 7:13 p.m., according to a North Charleston Police Department report. When they…
Read MoreFlorida police arrest student after video threat to ‘shoot up’ a high school
Florida police have arrested a high school student after video emerged of a potential gunman threatening to open fire at a school. The Sanford Police Department said it received an anonymous tip on Saturday “regarding a video of an unknown male threatening to shoot up Seminole High School.” “The video pictured the subject with multiple…
Read MoreSyria’s government signs a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities in the northeast
Syria’s interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed force there into the Syrian army. The deal is a major breakthrough that would bring most of Syria under the control of the government, which is led by the…
Read MoreSecret Service Shoots Armed Man Near the White House
The Secret Service shot a 27-year-old man near the White House early Sunday after an “armed confrontation” with federal officers, the agency said in a statement. President Trump was spending the weekend in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago Club and was not at the White House at the time. On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police Department in…
Read MoreSocial media influencer arrested in St. Mary’s Co. on arson charges
A social media influencer known for filming fire departments in Maryland has been arrested on new, similar charges after being detained last week for intentionally setting fire to a vacant building. In a release on Thursday, the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal said 21-year-old social media hobbyist Joshua Christian-Stanley Jackson, of Prince Frederick,…
Read More17-year-old becomes first person in Harris County charged with terrorism under new Texas law
A Hockley teen has become the first person in Harris County to be charged with terrorism under a new state law. Seventeen-year-old Laith Adil Shehzad is being held on a $10 million bond. According to court documents, Shehzad was plotting to kill people in a mass shooting by using a Glock semi-automatic firearm equipped with…
Read MoreA cache of explosives in Sydney provoked antisemitic terrorism fears. Police now say it was faked
An explosives-filled trailer that Australian politicians earlier described as an antisemitic terrorism plot and a foiled mass casualty event was staged by criminals in a complicated hoax — and was never meant to be detonated, police said Monday. Law enforcement agencies investigating January’s discovery of the trailer on the outskirts of Sydney divulged in a…
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