ANKARA (AA) – Australia on Thursday stripped its military officers of distinguished service medals over war crimes in Afghanistan, local media reported. Announcing the decision in parliament, Defense Minister Richard Marles said he stripped a number of current and former defense officers of medals over alleged war crimes that happened un...
Chicago’s Muslim Community Center has been a subject to possible hate crimes. Established in 1969, it is one of the oldest and largest Muslim organizations in Chicago. Chair of the center’s security committee Saif Mazhar says office staff found what looked like bullet holes on the building’s glass doors during Labor Day weekend. When several ...
The federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols began on Monday. Ex-officers Tadarrius Bean, Justin Smith Jr., and Demetrius Haley will stand trial for federal civil rights and conspiracy charges in connection to Nichols’s death, according to a Department of Justice announcement last year. Nich...
Washington, United States – AFP Five people were shot along a highway in the southern US state of Kentucky, US media reported Saturday, as police hunted for a suspect considered “armed and dangerous.” Randall Weddle, mayor of London, Kentucky, told local media that in addition to the wounded there were more people hurt in a [...
Washington, United States AFP A 14-year-old boy has been charged with shooting four people dead at a US high school, authorities said Thursday, adding that their investigation into the country’s latest outburst of gun violence is ongoing. The teen faces four felony murder counts after allegedly killing two fellow pupils, also aged 14, as...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden called on lawmakers Thursday to take bold action to curtail gun violence after yet another school shooting left students and teachers dead in the state of Georgia. “We need more than thoughts and prayers. Some of my Republican friends in Congress just finally have to say, ‘Enough is enoug...
Portsmouth, United States – AFP Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday implored Americans to bring a halt to the “epidemic of gun violence” plaguing the United States, after a mass shooting at a Georgia high school left four people dead. “We have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country ...
Washington, United States- AFP Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday the perpetrator of a high school shooting in Georgia that killed at least four people was a “sick and deranged monster.” “Our hearts are with the victims and loved ones of those affected by the tragic event in Winder, GA,” th...
Winder, United States – AFP A 14-year-old boy killed four people, including two students, and wounded nine more when he opened fire at a high school in the US state of Georgia on Wednesday, law enforcement said. The suspected shooter — also a student at the school — had been brought to the FBI’s attention […]
A new BBC investigation has uncovered a dramatic rise in illegal Jewish settler outposts across the West Bank. It found 29 established in the past year, the highest annual figure recorded. These outposts, which lack official boundaries and are illegal under Israeli and international law, have rapidly expanded since 2019. Palestinian grandmoth...
