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 […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA): At least 10 suspects have been arrested by security forces over Sunday’s attack on a popular shrine in southern Iran’s Shiraz city, which killed one and injured nine others. The semi-official Tasnim News Agency in a report on Monday said the interrogation of one of the attackers who was apprehended by security […]
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement on Thursday buried one of its members who was killed a day earlier when a truck carrying ammunition belonging to the Iran-backed group overturned near Beirut, sparking clashes. Hundreds turned out for the funeral of Ahmad Ali Kassas in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah strong...
TORONTO (AA) – Washington, DC Councilman Trayon White called Tuesday for an emergency to be declared and the National Guard to step in to curb the rapidly rising crime and violence in the nation’s capital. In a press statement on the deaths of three people in a gunfight on Aug. 6, White said that anarchy […]
