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Parkland School Shooter Identified

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The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has been identified by reports as Nicolas Cruz. BREAKING: US official: Florida school shooter identified as Nicolas Cruz. — The Associated Press (@AP) February 14, 2018 At least 14 victims, with multiples degrees of…

FBI Says When It Will Reveal Las Vegas Shooter Motive

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We likely won’t find out what motivated Stephen Paddock to shoot dead 58 country music fans from the window of a Las Vegas hotel room—the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history—for at least another nine months, if ever, the FBI agent in charge of probing the case reportedly revealed on Wednesday. In an interview […]

More than 200 killed as Egypt militants attack mosque in Sinai

At least 235 people were killed and scores more injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives and firing on worshippers during Friday prayers, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault in the town of Bir Abd, about 25 miles from the North Sinai provincial […]

White Supremacists Share Bomb-Making Materials in Online Chats

Right-wing extremists communicating in confidential online chats in recent months have shared scores of documents detailing the manufacture and use of bombs, grenades, mines and other incendiary devices. The documents, which range from instructions on detonating dynamite to U.S. military manuals for constructing improvised explosives and booby traps, were passed around during online conversations among […]

Philippine police: Casino attacker was indebted gambler

Philippine police: Casino attacker was indebted gambler

Philippine police have identified the gunman in Friday’s deadly attack on a casino in the capital, Manila, as a a heavily indebted Filipino who was hooked on gambling. The suspect was named as Jessie Javier Carlos, a 42-year-old father of three and former finance department employee who owed more than $80,000, according to police.

A police officer and seven others are dead after a gruesome Mississippi murder spree

Cory Godbolt, of Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged in the murder of eight people, including a sheriff’s deputy. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Godbolt’s murder spree started late Saturday night when a sheriff’s deputy responded to a homeowner who wanted Godbolt removed from their property. He was arrested this morning after a manhunt […]

Egypt identifies Alexandria church bomber as fugitive with militant ties

A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017. Egypt on Wednesday named the suicide bomber who attacked a cathedral in Alexandria as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, describing him as a fugitive with links to militant cells that carried out…

Saudi Arabia, Iran, others react to US strike in Syria

Saudi Arabia, Iran, others react to US strike in Syria

The United States had fired nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles at a military air field in Syria, the first direct military action Washington has taken against Syrian government forces in the six-year-old conflict. Washington said the strikes on Friday severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at the airfield. US President Donald […]

Utter Disregard for Rights Seen in Cruelty of Syrian War

Utter Disregard for Rights Seen in Cruelty of Syrian War

Tuesday’s alleged chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, which has left dozens dead, was the latest outrage in a conflict marked by human rights violations carried out on an industrial scale, rights activists say. From the start, the conflict saw a disregard of the rules of war the world has tried to establish since World […]

Idlib: ‘More gruesome than can ever be described’

Idlib: ‘More gruesome than can ever be described’

Survivors of a suspected chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province and aid workers on the scene say they are still in shock and struggling to recover from the distressing event of the attack. “It’s just indescribable,” Othman al-Khani, local activist and witness said. “We saw people suffocating while their lungs were collapsing. The hardest was […]