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HANI, DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmerie base in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast late on Monday (April 11), killing one soldier and wounding 47 others, the military said on Tuesday (April 12). Thirty-nine soldiers and eight civilians were wounded in the attack in the town of Hani, north of the provincial capital of Diyarbakir, according to a written statement. About 20 ambulances rushed to the scene, the military […]
Reuters – A fire broke out at a garment factory near Mumbai in India’s western Maharashtra state on Tuesday (April 12). Around 100 workers were feared trapped inside. The fire broke out early morning on the ground floor of the factory at Bhiwandi, about 35 kilometres from Mumbai. Nine fire trucks and six water tankers were rushed to the site to douse the flames. Some workers took refuge on the roof of the building and […]
KOLLAM, India (AFP) — Five men wanted over a massive explosion during a banned fireworks display that killed more than 100 people in southern Indian surrendered to police early Tuesday, a senior officer said. The blast ripped through concrete buildings at a Hindu temple complex in Kerala state where thousands had gathered on Saturday night to watch the display. Police had been hunting for the five who went missing after the disaster and initial charges […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons has been made more complex by North Korea’s repeated provocations said Japanese Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida, during a news conference on Monday (April 11) The meeting of Group of Seven most industrial nations (G7) Foreign ministers closed on Monday in the city of Hiroshima with a call for nations to meet the conditions for a nuclear free world. Hiroshima is one of […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – US Secretary of State, John Kerry, called for renewed efforts to end nuclear threats on Monday (April 11) after becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to pay respects at Hiroshima’s memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Kerry described the museum as a “gut-wrenching” reminder of the need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons. “We came here and drew from the experience of touring in […]
NOVOSELITSKOYE, STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Security was tightened on Monday (April 11) in Russia’s southern Stavropol region after three men including at least one suicide bomber attacked a rural police station. Russia’s Interior Ministry said police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert, and security measures were tightened at airports and railway stations in the region. Soldiers and police in the village blocked streets in the village with […]
NOVOSELITSKOYE,STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Three men attacked a rural police station in southern Russia on Monday (April 11) including at least one suicide bomber, the country’s Interior Ministry said, saying police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert. The attack took place in the village of Novoselitskoye in Russia’s Stavropol region, close to the volatile majority-Muslim North Caucasus area, where Islamist extremists intent upon carving out a breakaway […]
HONOLULU, HAWAII, United States (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy officer with access to sensitive U.S. intelligence faces espionage charges over accusations he passed state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday. (April 10) The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who was born in Taiwan and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen, according a Navy profile article written about him in […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) – The increased number of deployed soldiers in Brussels is becoming difficult to maintain, the head of a military personnel union said on Monday (April 11), due mainly to a lack of means and equipment. The reinforcement comes less than a month after 32 people, excluding three suicide bombers, were killed in two explosions at Brussels Airport and a blast inside a metro carriage in central Brussels on March 22. “The number […]
NANGARHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 army recruits on a bus in eastern Afghanistan on Monday (April 11) officials said, hours after a similar attack killed two people in the capital Kabul. The latest blast hit a bus in the Sorkh Rud district of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan. Twelve bodies and at least 38 wounded were taken to the main hospital in Jalalabad, the principal […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) – Police in Washington, D.C. are looking for a burger thief after a man broke in a Five Guys restaurant and made himself a meal. In surveillance video released by Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department from a Five Guys restaurant in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, the man is seen in the kitchen between 3:10am and 5:05am on March 18. The suspect can be seeing walking around the restaurant before turning […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) — Group of Seven foreign ministers on Monday expressed concern about maritime disputes in Asia, as worries grow in the region over China’s territorial and military ambitions. Beijing lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea despite conflicting partial claims from Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines. It has constructed artificial islands in the area in recent months as it asserts its sovereignty. Japan, meanwhile, has its own dispute […]
