KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 43 people were killed over the weekend in separate attacks attributed to terrorists in Burkina Faso. The first attack occurred between Salmossi and Markoye in the province of Oudalan in the Sahel region, leaving six people dead, including five army auxiliaries and one civilian. Eight other volunteer militia...
WASHINGTON (AA) – One person was killed and four others were critically injured Sunday during a shooting at a church in Orange County, California, according to authorities. The shooting took place inside Geneva Presbyterian Church on the 24000 block of El Toro Road in Laguna Woods, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on Twi...
BERLIN (AA) – A suspected Nazi terrorist attack was prevented in Germany’s western city of Essen, officials said on Thursday. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said at a televised news conference in Duesseldorf that police discovered material for a bomb for a terror attack at the home of a 16-year-old high school student in...
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...
