BRUSSELS – The European Commission has proposed a draft legislation aiming to protect children against online sexual abuse. The news rules require online platforms to carry out risk assessment, detect and report cases of child abuse, as well as remove effectively the critical content. The commission proposed the creation of a new organiz...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and several others wounded when a bomb blast targeted a security checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, an official said. Somali police spokesman Abdifatah Adan Hassan told Anadolu Agency that two security personnel were among the dead in the attack on the secu...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Police in Ecuador announced Tuesday that 200 inmates who escaped following a deadly prison riot were recaptured. “A total of 220 citizens escaped yesterday, and at this moment, we have recaptured 200,” said police chief of operations Geovanny Ponce. The prisoners escaped during a prison riot between ri...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – At least 43 inmates were killed in a prison riot in Ecuador on Monday, authorities in the South American country reported. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the incident occurred at the Social Rehabilitation Center of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, located about 70 km (43 miles) from the Ecuadori...
ISTANBUL (AA): At least 48 people were killed by gunmen in three villages in northwestern Nigeria on Friday, according to local authorities. Aminu Suleiman, a local official in Bakura in Zamfara State, confirmed the attacks on Sunday, saying that bandits on motorcycles attacked people in Sabon Gari, Damri, and Kalahe, local media reported. Nig...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The central Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca was rocked on Friday by an explosion that left more than a dozen people injured. The blast emanated from a residential building just a few blocks away from the Retiro park, causing significant damage to both the building and nearby cars. Madrid’s emergency service reported [&hel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Casualties are feared as two roadside blasts targeted an Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia’s southwestern Gedo region on Thursday, a security official said. The attack took place between the towns of Luq and Shatalow, the official said, adding that investigation has been initiated. Witnesses told Anadol...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Many Palestinians were injured when Israeli police fired rubber bullets at them, while guarding hundreds of Israeli settlers that invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday. Israeli police also detained 51 Muslims, including an Algerian-origin French woman. On the occasion of Israel’s fou...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Four people were killed in fresh tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur province on Saturday, taking the overall death toll since last week to 200, according to local medics. In a statement, the Sudanese Doctors Committee said the new fatalities were reported in the provincial capital Geneina. There was no comment [&helli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian rights groups have condemned an Israeli court decision rejecting a request to reinvestigate the killing of four children by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2014. The four boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing on a beach in the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. On Sunday April […]
