Four U.S. Secret Service officials have been suspended after they were duped by two men accused of posing as officers and employees of the federal government. Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali have each been charged with false impersonation of a federal officer. Investigators allege the duo obtained paraphernalia, handguns and assault rifles use...
A Turkish court has suspended the trial in absentia of 26 Saudis accused of killing Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The court also ruled for the case to be handed over to Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz said she would appeal the court’s decision that came amid warnings from human rights groups. The 59-year-old [&hell...
A man suspected of killing a maintenance worker at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida on Thursday is in the hospital, after being shot several times by deputies. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma initially said the suspect, 38-year-old Ahmed Raslan, and the victim, an unnamed 59-year-old man, were coworkers at the center. Inves...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Two al Shabaab fighters were killed and at least three police officers wounded in an al-Shabaab attack on the international airport in the capital Mogadishu. The attackers used small weapons and hand grenades as they tried to infiltrate the Aden Adde International Airport. “They tried to force their way into the airp...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP A knife and car-ramming attack in southern Israel killed at least three people and wounded several others on Tuesday. Police said the attacker arrived at a gas station in the southern city of Beersheba shortly after 4:00 pm (1400 GMT) and “stabbed a woman.” “Civilians who were at the scene fir...
DUMAS (AA) One person was killed and at least 24 others injured when one or more gunmen shot at attendees of a car show in Arkansas. Authorities were investigating the incident in the town of Dumas and the “gunfire that swept across a crowd attending a local car show, leaving one person dead, and at […]
Russian airstrikes have destroyed a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, local officials said Wednesday. The Mariupol city council said the Russian airforce dropped several bombs. People and children were under the wreckage of the Mariupol maternity hospital. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram calling the strik...
A grand jury has indicted a Colorado county clerk and her deputy on charges related to an election security breach last summer. Tina Peters is a Republican running for secretary of state, who has promoted false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Charges against Peters come amid death threats against election workers in the […]
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The first person to stand trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was found guilty Tuesday on all federal charges filed against him. The jury in Washington, DC took less than four hours to find 49-year-old Guy Reffitt of Wylie, Texas – a suburb 30 miles northeast of Dallas – guilty […]
British nationals and brothers Saeed and Sakil Dawood were brutally killed in the 2002 Gujarat, India riots. Twenty years later, U.K. parliament member Kim Leadbeater may be questioning the Indian government’s failure in convicting those guilty of their killings. Leadbeater is an MP for Batley and Spen in the northern English county of Yorksh...