ANKARA (AA) – Australian authorities have claimed that the hackers behind the recent massive data breach were in Russia and announced that they would approach Moscow for further action. Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw in a statement said this is a crime that has the potential to impact millions of Australians and damage a significant...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least five policemen were killed when a group of over 100 bandits stormed a security checkpoint in southern Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. The incident took place in Obaro town located in a remote riverine area of Ronti in southern Sindh province. Ghotki district police chief Tanvir […]...
Addressing Pakistanis from the hospital, Imran Khan said he knew of a planned assassination attempt a day before it happened. Khan accused U.S. diplomat Donald Lu for threatening the Pakistani ambassador that the country will face difficulties if the former premier is not removed. Protesters across Pakistan burned tires and blocked traffic fol...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian authorities have ordered an investigation into a video showing officers savagely beating a protester that rights groups said exposed the brutality of the crackdown on demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. The Islamic republic has been rocked by over six weeks of unrest following the death of Amini, 2...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen have kidnapped at least 21 children, most of them girls, working on a farm in northwestern Nigeria, police and local officials said on Wednesday. Gambo Isah, a police spokesperson, told Anadolu Agency that “18 young women and three young men” were taken away from a farm in Faskari, an area […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Suspected al-Shabaab members have abducted four people in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. The suspects crossed over from Somalia late on Tuesday night and ambushed an ambulance in Mandera county, according to a police statement. The people abducted include two paramedics from the Lafey Sub-County Hospita...
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): A French-Australian hostage kidnapped in eastern Chad has been released and is in “good health”, the Chadian Prime Minister announced in a tweet. “The kidnapped Franco-Australian hostage… has just been found and taken to safety in good health,” said Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo, congra...
Early Friday morning, an assailant broke into the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. The man, who is in custody, violently assaulted her 82-year-old husband Paul Pelosi. Pelosi was hospitalized but is expected to make a full recovery. The New York Times reports the suspected attacker was in search […]
Malika MacDonald, a domestic violence survivor, overcame several abusers over the course of her life. MacDonald had been on her own since she was 15. She married her abuser when she was only 18. Her then-husband, who was addicted to crack cocaine, threatened to kill her and their two young children. She fled her home […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian forces announced on Friday they had thwarted a bomb plot in Shiraz, the site of a deadly attack earlier this week by the ISIS. According to official Iranian news agency IRNA, Shiraz Governor Lutfullah Shaybani said “security forces successfully prevented a planned bomb attack on one of the busy streets in […]...
