A 19-year-old man has been charged for trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas and use it to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a complaint filed in US District Court in Nevada on Monday, Michael Sandford tried to disarm[…]
Thousands of Venezuelans have been queueing around the country to validate signatures as part of a long-drawn-out process to request a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. Earlier this month, about 1.3 million people signed a petition for a recall vote – far more than the 200,000 required to move[…]
A record-high 65 million people, a figure equivalent to the entire United Kingdom, are displaced by wars and conflict globally. “Governments worldwide are displaying paralysis and renouncement of responsibility,” warned Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) At the beginning of 2016, 24.5 million people had fled[…]
A number of foreigners were killed and wounded when a minibus was hit by a bomb blast in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Conflicting reports claim that up to 14 Nepalese guards inside the vehicle perished in the attack. AFP reported that at least 14 people died in the blast.[…]
Ten cities across the world are hosting a week of events dubbed “First they came for Assange,” featuring Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, Yanis Varoufakis and Patti Smith, among others. It marks four years of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s detention. Assange has been unable to leave Ecuadorian Embassy since June 19,[…]
The memory units of both flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month are severely damaged, according to Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources. The memory units of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) – collectively known as the[…]
Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been displaced and hundreds of troops killed amid an army military offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Fallujah in Anbar province. Three days of fighting have left more than 30,000 people displaced from the city, in addition to[…]
An Israeli pro-settlement group is campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union to punish the EU for what it says is its pro-Palestinian stance, one of the group’s officials said on Sunday. Regavim is a right-wing NGO that supports Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, though they are[…]
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation today announced that there is no winner of the 2015 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.The announcement was made following a meeting of the independent Prize Committee chaired by Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim. Commenting on the decision of the Prize Committee, Mo Ibrahim, Chairman of[…]
French police have banned “all demonstrations related to migrants” in Calais on Saturday 18 June, the day a huge aid convoy was scheduled to head from the UK to the port town where thousands of refugees and migrants are living in squalid conditions. A letter sent to the British police[…]
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