…ircumstances” use such weapons, “if such weapons exist”. Meanwhile, the United Nations says it is pulling “all non-essential international staff” out of Syria. As many as 25 out of 100 international staff could leave this week, the UN news agency Irin reported, while all humanitarian missions outside Damascus will be halted for the time being. In a speech on nuclear n…
f eight shot in the early hours of Sunday as he partied in his Bronx back yard. At the same event, a 14-year-old girl was hit in the back, while a 13-year-old girl was hit in the left thigh during the 3:39 a.m. shooting. In the Williamsbridge shooting, there were five young men wounded, aged 17, 18, 19, 21 and 24. According to police, Oneil Dasilva, 17 could be the suspect in connection with the i…
…ries to Turkey. The move is designed to defend Turkey’s border with Syria. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed since the Syrian uprising against President Assad began in March 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the country and another 2.5 million are displaced within its borders. On Tuesday, a teacher and at least 28 students were killed in a rocket attack on…
Syria may have used chemical weapons against rebels, the White House has said. US intelligence agencies believe “with varying degrees of confidence” that the nerve agent sarin had been deployed on a “small scale”, and did not say where or when it had been used. The White House has warned chemical weapons use would be a “red line” for possible intervention, but…
…oreign ministry has confirmed. Mika Yamamoto, 45, was a veteran war reporter, working for Japan Press. The UN says more than 18,000 people have been killed in the conflict, 170,000 have fled Syria and 2.5 million need aid within the country. Earlier on Monday, the UN’s new envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi said he was “not in a position to say yet” whether President Assad should go…
…y saddened by Friday’s senseless violence”. The attack at Newtown is the second deadliest shooting attack at a US school or university, after the Virginia Tech killings of 2007, which left 32 people dead and many injured….
…ator’s plan to introduce a bill on the first day of the next Congress. Barack Obama would also consider curbs on high-capacity ammunition and loopholes, Jay Carney said. Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults in Friday’s attack. Barack Obama has previously stated his support for the reintroduction of an assault weapons ban, which lapsed in 2004. But he has not backed a spe…
Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people last July at Aurora cinema in Colorado. On Friday, prosecutors rejected an offer from James Holmes to plead guilty in order to avoid execution. James Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the attack in Aurora, one of the worst mass shootings in US hi…
…women died in the assault on Sandy Hook school by a lone man who then took his own life. The first funerals for victims will be held on Monday. The gunman has been identified by police as Adam Lanza, 20. He shot dead his mother before driving to the school in her car. Officials say he was armed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and used a semi-automatic rifle as his main weapon. He was also…
…al weapons and was able to safeguard them. Fierce fighting continued across Syria on Wednesday. An aerial bombardment preceded an assault by tanks on several areas of Damascus. Activists said at least 37 people had been killed in the capital, in the areas of Kafar Soussa and Nahr Eishah. A journalist working for the state-run Tishreen newspaper, Mosaab al-Odallah, was killed by the military during…
President Barack Obama today signaled he would push for tight gun control in the wake of the massacre of 26 at an elementary school in Connecticut, saying there had been “too many” mass shootings in America. During a moving appearance, the president said the time had come to “take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics”. Barack Obama struggled for words,…
…y commander warned Syria that Ankara would respond with greater force if Syria continued its cross-border shelling. The Airbus A320 airliner, which was travelling from Moscow to Damascus, was carrying 35 passengers and two crew – far fewer than its 180 passenger capacity. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told state-run television that Ankara had received information that the plane co…
he cover-up. The officers planted a gun and fabricated witnesses and false reports to make the shootings appear justified. Robert Faulcon, 48, received the longest sentence of 65 years; Kenneth Bowen, 38, and Robert Gisevius, 39, received 40 years each; and Anthony Villavaso, 35, was sentenced to 38 years in prison. Retired Sgt Arthur Kaufman, 55, the officer who was assigned to investigate the sh…
…f Baghdad There are also reports of bombings in the provinces of Salahuddin and Kirkuk. The capital of Salahuddin province is Tikrit, the home town of former leader Saddam Hussein, who was executed in 2006. There are fears the death toll from Thursday’s violence could rise. Last week, at least 18 people were killed in a suicide attack near the Iraqi police academy in the capital. Shia target…
…t Nicolas Sarkozy and family of the victims had asked for it not to be shown. The video has been edited into a “montage” accompanied by an Islamic war songs, and was sent in a package post-dated March 21 – the day before 23-year-old Mohamed Merah was killed by French special forces in his home city. Investigators have already confirmed that Mohamed Merah had a small video camera strapped to…
…TART deal agreed between Washington and Moscow was intended to replace its lapsed predecessor, START. It trims US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads – a cut of about 30% from a limit set previously. The treaty would also allow each side visually to inspect the other’s nuclear capability, with the aim of verifying how many warheads each missile carries. In a…
Episodes of comedy series American Dad and Family Guy were dropped on Sunday in the wake of Friday’s shootings in Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 26 dead. Fox TV instead showed repeats of the shows to avoid broadcasting any potentially sensitive content. The billed Family Guy episode had featured a retelling of the nativity while in American Dad, a demon punished naughty children a…
…or directions before shooting them. They survived but later two more were shot dead nearby. “We’re all nervous,” said one resident, 52-year-old Renaldo Works. “I’ve got a 15-year-old, and I’m not going to let him out late. People are scared. We need facts.” “You don’t want to be a prisoner in your own home,” he said. …
e were here to shop in this market when the blast happened. Why did this happen?” It is the deadliest day in Iraq since 13 June, when another wave of bombings killed 84 people and injured nearly 300. On Sunday bombings south of the capital killed at least 17. Violence dipped in Iraq following the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, but sectarian violence has returned across the country in recent mo…
Marvin LaFontaine, a friend of Adam Lanza’s mother, has said the Sandy Hook gunman may have launched his murder spree as an “act of revenge” after suffering years of bullying as a student at the Connecticut school. Marvin LaFontaine said Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, one of the worst school shooting in America’s history, had been harboring resentmen…
…f the firearms control bill. Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid made the decision, saying the proposal could not get enough votes. An assault-type weapon was used in the December massacre that killed 26 at Sandy Hook primary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooting shocked the US and revived efforts in Washington DC to prohibit such firearms. While polls show most Americans back an assault we…
C’s Meet the Press, Barack Obama voiced skepticism about proposals to place armed guards at schools in the aftermath of the December 14th deadly assault in Connecticut which claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six teachers. In his boldest terms yet, Barack Obama vowed to rally the American people around an agenda to limit gun violence and said he still supports increased background che…
…elly said it currently only works at a short range – from around three to four feet away from a person. “This can be done from a short range,” Raymond Kelly said. “We want a distance of at least 25 meters.” Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the department is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop the device. The gadget would mean the NYPD would no longer have to stop and frisk…
killed with a Bushmaster .223-calibre rifle, and the gun Lanza turned on himself was a Glock 10mm handgun, Stephen Sedensky said. Adam Lanza had another loaded handgun with him in the school and three 30-round magazines for the rifle. One more weapon, a 12-gauge shotgun with 70 rounds, was also found in the car Adam Lanza drove to the school. Although the description of the gunman in the search wa…
cond term in office in the polls on 22 April. An opinion poll late on Wednesday suggested Nicolas Sarkozy was now ahead of main challenger Francois Hollande in first-round voting intentions – by 30% to 26% – and had narrowed Hollande’s lead in the largely expected run-off vote on 6 May. Mohamed Merah, 23, was buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on Thursday. His body w…
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Pope Francis condemns money cult in his first major speech on financial crisisIn his first major speech on the financial crisis, Pope Francis has called on world leaders to end the "cult of money" and to do more for the poor. Free market economics had…
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