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Yemen’s Houthi militia seized the president’s chief of staff on Saturday (January 17) and threatened further steps to derail a proposed new constitution in a wrangle for power that threatens to bring down the government. The draft constitution was formally launched on Saturday and aims to resolve big regional, political and sectarian differences in Yemen by devolving authority to the regions. But it has been bitterly opposed by the Houthis who fear it will dilute […]
In Antwerp, Belgium’s second largest city, soldiers with machine guns are guarding the city’s Jewish community. Hundreds of troops are being deployed to protect all kinds of potential terror targets — Jewish schools and Jewish museums, diplomatic missions, offices for NATO and the EU. The move comes after authorities discovered an Islamist cell preparing an attack on police across the country, says Belgium’s Minister of Defense. BELGIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE STEVEN VANDEPUT “It’s very important […]
French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday that anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters in other countries do not understand France’s attachment to freedom of speech. He was speaking a day after the satirical weekly’s publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad sparked violent clashes, including deaths, in some Muslim countries. Demand has surged for Charlie Hebdo’s first issue since two militant gunmen burst into its weekly editorial conference and shot dead 12 people at the start […]
Chinese police confirms the identity of an arsonist who set fire on a bus, saying that the 55-year old man is also the one responsible for a fire in a food company warehouse.
A gas tank explosion in China killed six and injured 19 more.
Equatorial Guinea is ready for the African Nation Cup after volunteering to host said tournament after Morocco withdraw due to fears of the Ebola virus.
Belgian police were questioning 13 suspects on Friday detained during raids against an Islamist group they feared planned to attack police and two other people were held inFrance, state prosecutors said. A spokesman told a news conference there was still no apparent link to last week’s Islamist attacks in Paris and the identities of two gunmen killed during one of the raids on Thursday, in the eastern town of Verviers, had yet to be confirmed. […]
Britain’s “Beagle 2” spacecraft, once dubbed “a heroic failure” by the nation’s Astronomer Royal, was re-branded “a great success” on Friday (January 16) for being found on Mars 11 years after going missing. Beagle 2, part of a European Space Agency’s Mars Express missionsearching for extraterrestrial life, had been due to land on Mars on Christmas Day 2003, but disappeared on December 19, 2003. Until now, nothing had been heard from it. But at a packed […]
In Belgium, two men were killed and one was cornered when a police raid foiled a terrorist attack in the said country.
At least 10 people have died while five others were injured when a prison bus in Texas hits a train due to veering off an icy overpass.
The Al-Qaeda in Yemen admitted that they are behind the attacks on the French satirical publication “Charlie Hebdo”, saying that it is in retaliation for the alleged insult against Prophet Muhammad.
United States President Barak Obama unveiled a new cyber-security legislative proposal to promote better information sharing between the government and the private sector.
