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 […]
Justice Department has now seized over $1.4 billion in illegally obtained COVID-19 relief funds, says top official WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Justice Department said Wednesday that it has charged 371 people for offenses related to over $836 million in COVID-19 fraud. In a statement which announced the launch of two new COVID-19 fraud strik...
SACRAMENTO, California – A woman in California, Laura Ann Carleton, was allegedly shot and killed for refusing to take down an LGBTQ+ rainbow flag displayed outside her business. The incident occurred at Carleton’s store Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen, east of Los Angeles. The shooter, Travis Ikeguchi, was later killed by police officers aft...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – The Central Asian country of Uzbekistan has said that its officials were bribed to approve a tainted Indian cough syrup. The contaminated syrup is believed to have killed 65 children in Uzbekistan. The cough syrup was manufactured by the Indian company Marion Biotech and sold by Quramax Medical. The CEO of Quramax ...
Afrin, Syria — AFP Syrians in the country’s rebel-held north marked the 10-year anniversary on Monday of chemical attacks that killed over 1,400 people near Damascus — one of the conflict’s many horrors that went unpunished. “I was in such shock. I smelt death,” said paramedic Mohammed Suleiman from Zamalka ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 13 laborers were killed and several others injured in a landmine explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near Afghanistan’s border, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in the restive North Waziristan tribal district, where a van carrying over a dozen laborers hit a landmine in ...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) — At least 36 Nigerian military personnel were killed in attacks by bandits earlier this week and a helicopter crash, authorities said Thursday. The casualties include three officers and 22 soldiers killed in an ambush Monday in the northern state of Niger, said Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, the director of defense media […]...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Members of the Boko Haram group killed 13 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, local media reported Sunday. The organization carried out a predawn attack on Saturday on a military base in the village of Wulari in Borno state, killing three soldiers in a fierce gun battle. Late on […]
