HOUSTON, Texas – A fourth-grader who survived the Texas mass shooting last month testified before a US House of Representatives gun violence panel. “I don’t want it to happen again,” said Miah Cerrillo, 11, who smeared a classmate’s blood on her face and hands and played dead during the Robb Elementary School massacre. The 18-year-old [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – At least three people were killed after a gunman opened fire Thursday at a manufacturing facility in the US state of Maryland, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the shooting at Columbia Machine Inc. in the town of Smithsburg at approximately 2.30 p.m. Eastern Time (1830GMT)...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Many people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a church in Nigeria’s southwestern Ondo state, officials said. The attack occurred at St. Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo. Officials at the Federal Medical Center in Owo said at least 50 injured people were rushed to […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Cases of sexual offenses in the Canadian Armed Forces should be heard by civilian courts, not military courts, said the author of a report released Monday For the report, former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour was asked to look into increasing incidents of sexual offenses in the senior ranks of Canada’s [...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 50 civilians have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the town of Madjoari in eastern Burkina Faso, an official said Thursday. Residents from Madjoari in Kompienga province bordering Benin were heading to Nadiagou in the town of Pama, fleeing violence, when they were targeted Wednesday by unidentified arm...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Assailants on motorcycles on Sunday hit Colonel Sayyad Khodai with five bullets as he sat in his car outside his Tehran home. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – At least six people were killed in an attack carried out by Daesh/ISIS in northern Iraq, officials said late Monday. The terrorist group targeted residents of Taza Khurmatu district south of the city of Kirkuk, where the majority of Turkmen live, the government-affiliated Security Media Network said in a statement. An operation ...
PARIS (AA) – The security guard in front of Qatar’s embassy in Paris was killed in the early morning hours on Monday, according to local media. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into intentional homicide after a 40-year-old male suspect forced his way into the official headquarters at around 6.30 in the morning, Frenc...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An officer from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead by unknown assailants in Tehran on Sunday, the IRGC’s public relations division said. Colonel Sayyad Khodayari was attacked by two motorcycle-borne assailants in his car outside his home in eastern Tehran, close to the Iranian parliame...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A former US police officer has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter for his role in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, Minnesota’s attorney general announced Thursday. Thomas Lane was one of three former officers on the scene as fellow ex-officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nin...
