by Ian Timberlake RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up near the United States consulate in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah in the early hours of Monday, the interior ministry said. Security officers became suspicious of a man near the parking lot of Dr Suleiman Faqeeh Hospital, which is directly across from the US diplomatic mission. When they moved in to investigate “he blew himself up with a suicide […]
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Man faces ‘possible amputation’ after Central Park explosion
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A 19-year-old man was seriously injured, and may have lost a foot, after landing on what appeared to be an amateur explosive or firework in New York’s Central Park on Sunday, officials said. The incident comes as authorities step up security over the US Independence Day weekend, especially at airports and other transport hubs. “We have no evidence that this is related to terrorism,” NYPD deputy chief John O’Connell […]
More EgyptAir crash remains recovered from Mediterranean
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Search teams have recovered more human remains from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May, the Egyptian-led investigative committee said Sunday. The search vessel John Lethbridge “retrieved all the human remains that were mapped at the crash location,” the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said in a statement. After delivering the remains in Alexandria, the vessel will return to the crash location “to conduct a new thorough scan […]
Cocaine seized from inside diamante-encrusted horse head in New Zealand
New Zealand Customs and Police say they have seized 35 kilogrammes of cocaine brought into the country inside a diamante-encrusted horse head. “There is a significant organised crime group offshore that will be responsible for this and who have now lost a whole lot of money,” said National Organised Crime Manager, Detective Superintendent Virginia Le Bas in Auckland on Saturday (July 2). The discovery was made in May with the airfreight package delivered to an […]
Hillary Clinton says she was “pleased” to assist the FBI
In a telephone interview aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday (July 3), Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she was “pleased to have the opportunity to assist” the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the use of her private email server. “It was something I had offered to do since last August. I’d been eager to do it and I was pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing it’s […]
Clinton ‘pleased’ to speak with FBI in email probe
by Olivia HAMPTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton says she was “pleased” to speak with the FBI about her use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, but refused to discuss reports that she will not face charges. In an interview aired Sunday, Clinton acknowledged it was unwise for her husband to meet with America’s top law enforcement officer, with the encounter coming in the midst of the FBI investigation that […]
Mourners recall Elie Wiesel’s fight for Holocaust victims
The death of World War Two concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was mourned on Sunday (July 3) by family and friends at a New York City synagogue, who honored his commitments to his loved-ones as well as his life-long fight for millions of Holocaust victims. Wiesel, 87, died on Saturday at his home in New York City. The private funeral will be followed by a public memorial at a later date, the […]
Tears, smoke and loss at site of deadly Baghdad blast
by Ammar Karim BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A weeping Zainab Mustafa brought a photo of her husband to the still-smoldering site of a bloody bombing in Baghdad Sunday, seeking word of him and their two missing children. The three had gone out the night before to buy clothes for the upcoming holiday marking the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, and Mustafa has not heard from them since. The suicide car bombing […]
Tourist, 19, critically hurt in blast in New York’s Central Park
A 19-year-old tourist suffered a severe injury to his left foot in an explosion in Central Park on Sunday (July 3), said a spokesman for the New York Police Department, which was investigating the cause of the incident. The teen was in the park with two friends, who had also traveled to New York, when the blast occurred just before 11 a.m. (1500 GMT) near East 61st Street and East Drive, the NYPD spokesman said. […]
Israelis bury their dead amid rising tensions, Israeli minister accuses Facebook of hindering security
Israelis in Jerusalem attended a funeral procession for an Israeli killed in a car crash on Friday (July 1) caused by Palestinian gunfire near the Jewish settlement of Ottniel in the West Bank and injured three members of his family. Since October, Palestinians have killed 34 Israelis and two visiting U.S. citizens in a wave of street attacks, mostly stabbings. Israeli forces have shot dead at least 201 Palestinians, 137 of whom Israel has said […]
Russian ship conducts ‘aggressive’ moves near US cruiser
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A Russian warship sailed uncomfortably close to a US navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean this week, conducting maneuvers that US army officials denounced as “aggressive” and “erratic.” The Yaroslav Mudryy frigate came “unnecessarily close” as it passed the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto on Thursday, US European Command (EUCOM) said in a statement sent to AFP. “Conducting aggressive, erratic maneuvers and moving unnecessarily close to another ship […]
IS-claimed Baghdad blast kills at least 119
by Ammar Karim and Safa Majeed BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through a busy Baghdad shopping district Sunday, killing at least 119 people in the deadliest attack this year in Iraq’s capital. The blast hit the Karrada district early in the day as the area was packed with shoppers ahead of this week’s holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. It […]
