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(Reuters) — The decomposed bodies of five children aged between 2 and 8 were found stuffed into garbage bags on Tuesday (September 09) near a logging road in Alabama after their father confessed to killing them and led police to the scene, authorities said. Timothy Ray Jones, the father of the children, did not reveal a motive for the killings, which he confessed to authorities in Mississippi, Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said. The children, whose names have not been released, were […]
(Reuters) — At least 38 people were feared dead after a landslide triggered by heavy rains submerged an entire village in Udhampur district of Kashmir, said a police officer on Monday (September 8). Over 20 houses were buried under the landslide. The administration has recovered seven bodies while 31 people are still missing. Additional Superintendent of police, Khalil Poswal, said rescue operations were underway to trace further survivors or victims within the debris. “An entire village, which had […]
According to White House spokesman Josh Earnest, the Federal Bureau of Investigation finds no indication that moderate Syrian rebels sold American journalist Steven Sotloff to ISIS, who was recently beheaded in a video released by the Islamist militants. The White House statement was released after Sotloff’s family said that they believe that Sotloff was sold to ISIS for $50, 000 by the Syrian rebels, who gave ISIS the information that said journalist is in the […]
(Reuters) – The head of Fiji’s army said on Wednesday that he expected 45 Fijian U.N. peacekeepers seized two weeks ago on the Golan Heights by an al Qaeda-backed militant group, the Nusra Front, to be released within days. “Al Nusra has confirmed to the U.N. headquarters in New York that the Fijian peacekeepers will be released within the next few days,” Brigadier General Mosese Tikoitoga told a media conference in the Fijian capital, Suva. […]
The world is waiting for United States President Barack Obama’s strategy against the militant ISIS. The US president met with top congressional leaders in the White House to lay out his plans for the said group. The White House legal counsel is trying to find out if the approval of Congress is needed for military operations in Syria. But Obama reiterated to the leaders of the Congress that he will push through with said strategies […]
Authorities are still investigating an explosion in Syria which killed 28 members of the Islamist insurgent group, Ahrar Al-Sham. Meanwhile, Hassan Aboud, leader of the said group is in critical condition.
(Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke apart over Ukraine due to impact from a large number of fragments, the Dutch Safety Board said on Tuesday, in a report that Malaysia’s prime minister and several experts said suggested it was shot down from the ground. The crash over pro-Russian rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on July 17 killed 298 people, two thirds of them from the Netherlands. Ukraine and Western countries accuse the rebels of shooting it down with an […]
(Reuters) — Two more bodies of victims killed when a jetliner was downed in Ukraine in July returned to Malaysia on Tuesday (September 9), ahead of the release of the Dutch Transport Safety Board preliminary report into the downing of the plane. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed after apparently being struck by a missile over war-tornUkraine on July 17, worsening a year of tragedy for the country following the baffling disappearance of another MAS flight in March. Bodies and wreckage from […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William said on Monday he and wife Kate were thrilled to be expecting their second baby, after news of the pregnancy was released early because the Duchess had been suffering from morning sickness. The baby will be fourth-in-line to the British throne, after grandfather Prince Charles, father William and elder brother George, the couple’s first child born in July last year. There was no mention of when the baby was […]
(Reuters) — Iraq’s new government was sworn in on Monday (September 8) night in Baghdad in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise. The parliament approved the new government to be headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister. Abadi is a Shi’ite Islamist. He included members of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities in his cabinet. The swearing in of the government marks the start of Abadi’s uphill task to unify the […]
(Reuters) – The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, lowering tension between the rival nations after weeks of army clashes and heated rhetoric. Kashmir is divided by one of the world’s deadliest and most heavily militarized borders. Both the Indian and Pakistani sides have been ravaged by floods that have killed at least 239 people as […]
The Iraqi government said that it continues to hold two cities against the numerous attempts of Islamic State militants to seize them.
