Hamas accuses Israel of violating Gaza ceasefire deal
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Suspected al-Shabaab members have abducted four people in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. The suspects crossed over from Somalia late on Tuesday night and ambushed an ambulance in Mandera county, according to a police statement. The people abducted include two paramedics from the Lafey Sub-County Hospita...
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): A French-Australian hostage kidnapped in eastern Chad has been released and is in “good health”, the Chadian Prime Minister announced in a tweet. “The kidnapped Franco-Australian hostage… has just been found and taken to safety in good health,” said Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo, congra...
Early Friday morning, an assailant broke into the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. The man, who is in custody, violently assaulted her 82-year-old husband Paul Pelosi. Pelosi was hospitalized but is expected to make a full recovery. The New York Times reports the suspected attacker was in search […]
Malika MacDonald, a domestic violence survivor, overcame several abusers over the course of her life. MacDonald had been on her own since she was 15. She married her abuser when she was only 18. Her then-husband, who was addicted to crack cocaine, threatened to kill her and their two young children. She fled her home […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian forces announced on Friday they had thwarted a bomb plot in Shiraz, the site of a deadly attack earlier this week by the ISIS. According to official Iranian news agency IRNA, Shiraz Governor Lutfullah Shaybani said “security forces successfully prevented a planned bomb attack on one of the busy streets in […]...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two more Rohingya men were shot dead inside a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, early Thursday just a day after a Rohingya activist was gunned down in the camp. A group of armed and masked men barged into refugee camp-17 and opened fire at Rohingya men, killing one of them […]
Community leaders say Fargo, North Dakota’s Islamic Cemetery has been the target of a vandalism spree. Last Friday, an employee at the cemetery entered the building housing concrete vaults used in burials. Heidi Soliman, a spokesperson with the Islamic Society of The Islamic Society of Fargo, said the employee found all the vaults had been [&h...
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon was sentenced on Friday to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $6,500 fine for contempt of Congress. The charges stemmed from Bannon’s defiance of a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 House committee. The U.S. Department of Justice had recommended Bannon be sentenced to six months […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The Sudanese authorities on Friday declared a state of emergency in the state of Blue Nile in the wake of killings of more than 200 people as a result of a tribal conflict. Ahmed Al-Omda, the state’s governor, said that the emergency will remain in effect throughout the Blue Nile region […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six worshippers were killed in a deadly shooting spree in 2017 urged Canadian lawmakers Thursday to toughen and pass a proposed gun bill. Boufeldja Benabdallah said Bill C-21 should include a ban on assault-style semi-automatic weapons “that are not reasonably us...
