After two days of cloudy skies and rain, the sun was starting to come out Wednesday afternoon over Rockford, and Charles Spivey was thinking of taking a walk with his two daughters, ages 10 and 8. “By the grace of God, I did not do that,” Spivey said as he reflected on the massacre that […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who carried out the concert hall attack that killed over 130 people in a Moscow suburb last week were “radical Islamists.” Speaking in a meeting with government officials, Putin said the killings were carried out by extremists “whose ideology the Islamic world has been fighting for […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with […]
Russia was observing a national day of mourning on Sunday after a massacre in a Moscow concert hall killed more than 130 people, the deadliest attack in Europe to have been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish those behind the “barbaric terrorist attack”, saying four gunmen […]
PARKLAND — Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting a Parkland high school this afternoon where a gunman killed 17 people in 2018, to push for states to use available federal funds to strengthen gun violence prevention programs. Harris is expected to tour the building where the massacre occurred, alongside U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz and a […]
A farmer has documented a massacre which took place in a Burkina Faso village. The 32-year-old took a series of photos in the central village in Namentenga province after security forces launched an attack on November 5 last year, killing more than a dozen of his relatives. The images the anonymous man took showed women […]
(Bloomberg) — Colombia’s Finance Ministry pushed back against claims that ideological differences had led to the departure of 158 people since President Gustavo Petro took office. Most Read from Bloomberg The workers all resigned “voluntarily,” without administrative actions taken against them, the ministry said in a statement posted on social media platform X. The situation […]
(Bloomberg) — Brazil is escalating a diplomatic rift with Israel, saying the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s controversial remarks about the war in Gaza to divert attention from a “massacre” happening there. Most Read from Bloomberg “The words from Netanyahu’s government are unacceptable in their form, […]
Survivors of a pro-democracy uprising in South Korea and their immediate family are not exempt from military service and are not “taking up all civil service and private sector jobs” in the East Asian country, contrary to social media posts shared repeatedly on Facebook. The posts criticised the uprising’s survivors, who are entitled to certain […]
The final two victims who were among six people found shot to death in the Mojave Desert were identified Friday night. The massacre took place on Jan. 23 in a remote desert area in Adelanto, located in San Bernardino County. At the time, the San Bernardino County deputies received a call from one of the […]
A 14-year-old conspired with an out-of-state contact to plan and execute a mass casualty event at an Ohio high school, officials say. The teen was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 7, and was charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder, police said. The suspect had a list of Mariemont High School students and teachers to be killed, […]
KFAR AZA, Israel — It looks like a grisly crime scene. But to Shahar Shnorman and his wife, Ayelet Cohen, kibbutz Kfar Aza looks like home. The couple were the first to return to Kfar Aza — a sleepy, sun-drenched hamlet in southern Israel where Hamas killed 80 people and kidnapped another 19 on Oct. […]