Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP Five British-Pakistani children who were taken to Pakistan with a fugitive couple wanted over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Britain appeared at a custody hearing on Tuesday, police said. Surrey Police in Britain said last week the welfare of the five children was “a priority” after Sara Sharif w...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Prosecutors told a Canadian court Tuesday that accused Nathaniel Veltman mowed down and killed a family of four with his truck for one hate-filled reason – “he did it because they were Muslim.” The trial, which opened last week with jury selection, heard the opening statement of the Crown (government) prosecutors [&helli...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani security forces have launched a fresh operation in the southwestern mountainous region to recover six local footballers kidnapped by armed men last week, a government official said on Monday. The footballers were on their way to take part in a local football tournament in southwestern Balochistan provin...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s attorney general has asked prosecutors to start investigating Catholic leadership for allegedly covering up cases of sexual abuse of minors, according to an annual report published on Thursday. The attorney general said that cases may broaden to consider the role of superiors like bishops, cardinals, or other...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Arab community in Israel observed a general strike on Tuesday against rising violent crime rates. Public and private institutions, businesses and markets in all Arab towns and areas remained closed as part of the one-day strike called by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel. Arab citizens constitu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan on Thursday said its embassy in Lebanon’s capital Beirut was attacked by people of Armenian origin, but there were no injuries. “About 50 people of Armenian origin … struck the fence around the administrative building of the embassy and threw bottles containing paint and explosives,” the Foreign Min...
Spanish language TV crew, who shooting report on the robberies were attacked by masked and armed men who took their camera and other personal items CHICAGO – A TV news team was robbed at gunpoint while covering a series of robberies near the U.S. city of Chicago. The Spanish language Univision Chicago TV, consisting of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has discovered and disrupted a human smuggling network that set off alarm bells in law enforcement after it was determined that the effort was led by an individual with connection to ISIS, the White House confirmed Tuesday. “Intelligence alerted us of this human smuggling network,” spokesperson Karine...
TAHHAHASSEE, Florida – A 21-year-old white gunman named Ryan Christopher Palmeter killed three Blacks in a racially motivated attack at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooting occurred on Saturday. The gunman had legally purchased a handgun in April and an AR -15 rifle in June. The victims of the attack were 52-year...
Dalits, or Black untouchables of India, are at the bottom of the caste hierarchy of India’s social system NEW DELHI, India – A Dalit teenager was allegedly lynched and killed by an upper caste Hindu mob in India. Reports said that his sister was also attacked, and the mother was stripped naked, when they tried […]
