Posts Tagged ‘global-impact events’
Toronto police officer fatally shot in investigation tied to U.S. consulate shootings: chief
A Toronto police constable has died after being shot following an exchange of gunfire with a suspect in the northwest end of the city Thursday morning, Chief Myron Demkiw says. Const. Marc Pinizzotto, 43, was “a hero in life, not death,” Demkiw said at a news conference outside Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. “There’s a very…
Read MoreThousands of Malawians flee homes in South Africa amid xenophobic threats
More than 3,000 Malawians, including hundreds of children, are staying in an open field in South Africa’s port city of Durban, after fleeing what they described as escalating anti-immigrant threats and attacks. For weeks, groups armed with sticks, whips and shields have marched through parts of the country demanding that foreigners with no papers leave…
Read MoreTehran fires missiles at Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain after renewed US strikes on Iran
Iran launched a missile attack on Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait on Wednesday morning in the latest salvo in tit-for-tat strikes with the United States after the downing of a US helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC said in a statement that Iranian forces fired “long-range missiles,” claiming they “targeted and destroyed four major…
Read MoreKenya police fire tear gas at protest over US Ebola center
Kenyan police fired tear gas early Tuesday to break up a protest against a planned Ebola quarantine center for US citizens in the central town of Nanyuki. Small groups of demonstrators gathered near the site of the proposed 50-bed facility at Laikipia Air Base. Some of them wore protective medical uniforms, waved Kenyan flags and…
Read MoreIsrael and Iran trade strikes, threatening to drag the region back into full-scale war
Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in their first attacks since the U.S. struck a ceasefire with Tehran two months ago. Hours later, Iran’s military said that it would stop offensive operations. The renewed hostilities threatened to drag the Middle East back into a full-scale war. The war, launched by the U.S. and Israel…
Read MoreNaval drone explodes in the Romanian port of Constanta
A naval drone exploded in the Romanian port city of Constanta on Friday morning. In a statement, the Romanian Ministry of National Defence said the drone detonated at around 10:30 a.m. local time and that it was thought to be “of the type used in the war in Ukraine”. “The area had already been secured…
Read MoreAyatollah says Iran delivered ‘decisive blow’ to ‘malicious enemy’
Iran’s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei delivered an unexpected proclamation of Iranian victory in the war with the US on Israel, stating that “the malicious enemy has been defeated in confrontation with Iran’s armed forces.” In a statement read out on Thursday during the ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini’s death,…
Read MoreUkraine Strikes St. Petersburg on First Day of a Marquee Putin Event
Ukrainian drones on Wednesday attacked St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, on the opening day of a major annual economic conference that President Vladimir V. Putin has tried to cultivate into a showcase of a modern and prosperous country. It was the second time in a month that Ukraine had struck a major Russian city before…
Read MoreUN chief proposes options to help end Israel-Hezbollah conflict after peacekeepers leave Lebanon
The United Nations chief has proposed three options to help end the decades-old conflict between Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israel when the 8,100-member U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon ends on Dec. 31. All of the options presented to the U.N. Security Council by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would continue U.N. military monitoring of the…
Read MoreClashes continue in Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting US partial ceasefire plan
Clashes have continued in southern Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US plan for a partial ceasefire. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had spoken to both sides and “they agreed that all shooting will stop”, after Iran warned Israeli military actions in Lebanon were a threat to the US-Iran ceasefire. Lebanon…
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