PITTSBURGH (Web Desk) Shackled to a wheelchair, the man accused of shooting 11 worshipers to death at a Pittsburgh synagogue made a stony-faced and largely silent appearance on Monday in a federal courtroom, where he was ordered held without bond for the deadliest attack ever on America’s Jewish community.Robert Bowers, …
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US to deploy over 5,200 troops to Mexico border
WASHINGTON (Web Desk) The US military will deploy over 5,200 troops, including armed soldiers, to bolster President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the border with Mexico as a caravan of migrants treks toward the frontier, a senior US general said on Monday.General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the head of US Northern Command, …
Read More »Indonesian aircraft was new, fell out of a clear sky minutes after take-off
PAKISJAYA (Web Desk) Fishermen Budi and Gauk left home an hour before dawn on Monday and, with prawn nets stowed on their shallow teak boat, they headed out in a becalmed sea off the coast northeast of Jakarta in clear weather.About the same time, on the other side of the …
Read More »Weakened Merkel to step down as chancellor in 2021
LONDON (Web Desk) Angela Merkel on Monday announced she will quit as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021, as she sought to curtail a series of political crises that have rocked her fragile coalition.Often described as the world’s most powerful woman and Europe’s de facto leader, Merkel said …
Read More »UN experts urge Riyadh to halt executions of juvenile offenders
GENEVA (Web Desk) Five UN rights experts urgently appealed Monday to Saudi Arabia to “immediately” halt plans to execute six people sentenced to death for alleged crimes committed when they were minors.The independent experts warned that Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon, Abdullah al-Zaher, Mujtaba al-Sweikat, Salman Qureish, and Abdulkarim al-Hawaj “face …
Read More »Nature under assault: key indicators
NEW YORK (Web Desk) The World Wildlife Fund and partners have tracked population changes in Earth´s animal species for decades. News from the latest “Living Planet” report, released Tuesday, is more grim than ever. Here are key findings: Populations crashing From 1970 to 2014, the number of animals with a …
Read More »Quake rattles New Zealand as Harry and Meghan visit
NEW PLYMOUTH (Web Desk) A 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of central New Zealand Tuesday, where British royals Meghan and Harry are on tour, but officials said it caused no major damage.The quake was felt in Wellington during a session of parliament, prompting lawmakers to stop deliberations and seek refuge …
Read More »Earth’s wild animal population plummets 60% in 44 years: WWF
NEW TORK (Web Desk) Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth´s capacity to accommodate humanity´s expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned Tuesday.From 1970 to 2014, 60 per cent of all animals with a backbone fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals were wiped out …
Read More »Suicide terrorist killed before attacking Arbaeen pilgrims
BAGHDAD (Web Desk) The headquarter said in a statement on Monday that forces under the center managed to identify a suicide terrorist in northern Baghdad and kill him prior to undertaking any terror attack.The terrorist had worn explosive belt and intended to target the pilgrims on the way from Baghdad …
Read More »Yemeni army shoots down 2 Saudi spy drones
JIZAN (Web Desk) Almasirah said one drone was downed in Jizan, south of Saudi Arabia and the other in the western coast of Al-Hudaydah Province.Earlier on Saturday, the Yemeni army ‘s air defense unit had downed another Saudi drone in Jizan region.Meanwhile, the Yemeni army forces in an operation in …
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