A car bombing in Quetta, Pakistan resulted in 3 dead and 16 injuries. A paramilitary member of the Frontier Corps was one of the casualties in the said explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for said car bombing.
International
Church in Nigeria collapses
A church in Ynagogue, Ikotun, Lagos in Nigeria collapsed, killing 44. According to Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency, an estimated 130 people were saved from the ruins. The rescue operations is still ongoing. It is expected that more will die as there are more people trapped inside the collapsed church.
UK’s Cameron resists calls for air strikes despite hostage killing
(Reuters) – Britain resisted pressure on Sunday to join the United States in announcing air strikes against Islamic State after the militant group beheaded David Haines, a British hostage, and threatened to kill another Briton. Speaking after chairing a meeting of the government’s COBR emergency-response committee in London, Prime Minister David Cameron said his government was battling IS on numerous fronts but made clear it was not, for now, launching air strikes. “As this strategy […]
Islamic State video purports to show beheading of UK hostage David Haines
(Reuters) – Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday which purported to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage. However, the images were consistent with that of the filmed executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in the past month. Haines, a 44-year-old father of two from Perth in Scotland, was kidnapped last year while working for the French agency ACTED. […]
U.S. sees Middle East help fighting IS, Britain cautious after beheading
(Reuters) – Washington said countries in the Middle East had offered to join air strikes against Islamic State militants and Australia said it would send troops, but Britain held back even after the group beheaded a British hostage and threatened to kill another. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been touring the Middle East to try to secure backing for U.S. efforts to build a coalition to fight the Islamic State militants who have grabbed territory […]
Nokor sentences U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to 6 years hard labor
(Reuters) – North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labor for committing “hostile acts” as a tourist to the country, a statement carried by state media said on Sunday. Matthew Miller joins Kenneth Bae to become the second American currently serving a hard labor sentence in North Korea. A third, Jeffrey Fowle, is currently awaiting trial. “He committed acts hostile to the DPRK while entering the territory of the DPRK under the guise […]
More than 1,000 activists stage ‘black cloth’ march in Hong Kong
(Reuters) – More than 1,000 pro-democracy protesters clad in black marched silently through Hong Kong on Sunday, holding banners saying they felt betrayed and angry at Beijing’s refusal to allow fully-democratic elections for the city’s next chief executive in 2017. The protesters, who carried enormous black cloth ribbons through the streets, also held up signs calling for further civil disobedience and cheering on students planning to boycott classes. “Occupy Central with Love and Peace!” and […]
Photos: ‘Hawaii Five-0’ premiere – “Sunset on the Beach”
Photos: ‘Hawaii Five-0’ at Sunset on the Beach Hawaii bureau’s team was there for the event. Hawaii bureau team: >> Des Acenas >> Alfred Acenas >> Jiovanne Pasco >> Ron Hamilton
Fate of United Kingdom hangs in balance after new Scotland polls
(Reuters) – The fate of the United Kingdom remained unclear five days before a historic referendum on Scottish independence as three new polls on Saturday showed a slight lead for supporters of the union, but one saying the separatist campaign was pulling ahead. On the final weekend of campaigning, tens of thousands of supporters of both sides took to the streets of the capital Edinburgh and Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow. Rival leaders worked across the […]
Britain’s Cameron to chair emergency meeting after hostage killed
(Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron is to chair a meeting of the government’s emergency response committee on Sunday to discuss an Islamic State (IS) video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines. IS militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released the video on Saturday. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage, but the images were consistent with those of the filmed executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in the past month. Cameron, […]
Southern California wildfire blazes into the night, forcing evacuations
(Reuters) — Fire officials in Orange Country, California ordered the evacuation of about 30 homes late on Friday (September 12) after a fire that started earlier in the day had grown to consume more than 1,300 acres later in the night. The blaze was first reported at about 15 acres on Friday morning, burning in Silverado Canyon, part of the Santa Ana Mountains, approximately 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. By early afternoon, the […]
Has London’s Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper finally been identified?
(Reuters) – Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized London in the 1880s, has finally been identified from DNA evidence from the blood-soaked shawl of one of his victims, according to a new book. Author Russell Edwards identifies 23-year-old Polish immigrant and hairdresser Aaron Kosminski as the notorious killer, suspected of the gruesome murders of at least five women in 1888. In his book “Naming Jack the Ripper” which is released on Tuesday, Edwards, a […]
