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On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2016
The following is the second edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features or...

More than 80 people killed in Nice, France attack on...
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File photo of Theresa May, 2015. (Image: UK Home Office.)

Theresa May to become UK Prime Minister as oppositio...
Following the withdrawal of Mrs Leadsom from the Conservative Party leadership election, Party official George Brady said he was expecting to appoint Mrs May as the new party leader. Mrs May, the current home secretary, would succeed David Cameron in this role, and it is expected she will also succeed him as Prime Minister. Mrs Leadsom described a leadership ...

Five police officers killed in Dallas, Texas during ...
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Banglagesh suffers bomb attacks on Eid al-Fitr
On Thursday, a militant group attacked a mosque in Sholakia in the Kishoreganj district of northern Bangladesh on Eid al-Fitr killing at least four people including one attacker and two officials, injuring at least twelve people, Bangladeshi police said. Al Jazeera reported two suspects were arrested. More than 200,000 people had gathered for Eid prayers mark...

Map showing locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. (Image: OpenStreetMap.)

Italian police charge homeless local with murder of ...
On Tuesday, Italian police charged homeless forty-year-old Massimo Galioto with the aggravated murder of Beau Solomon, a college student from Wisconsin, US. The police arrested the man after finding the student's body in the Tiber River in Rome on Monday. The defendant has attorney Michele Vincelli. According to reports, Massimo Galioto is homeless and lived ...

File photo of the Dalai Lama, George W. Bush, and Wiesel in 2007. (Image: Chris Greenburg.)

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel di...
On Saturday, acclaimed writer Elie Wiesel died in New York City at age 87, his family said, following a lengthy illness. Wiesel was born 1928 in the town of Sighet in Romania. Twelve years later, in 1940, his town was included in an annexation by Hungary. In 1944, Wiesel, fifteen at the time, and his family, along with the entire Jewish population in Sighet, ...

File photo of Hillary Clinton, 2016. (Image: Iorie Shaull.)

FBI interviews Hillary Clinton over emails
Yesterday, Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was interviewed at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. during a process which took over three and a half hours. File photo of Hillary Clinton, 2016. Image: Iorie Shaull. The interview was part of the ongoing probe by the FBI into Hillary Clinton's private email server, created and hosted...

Ataturk Airport overview (Image: Ercan Karakaş.)

Suicide bombers attack Istanbul's Ataturk airport
The attack started with the three individuals shooting weapons near the terminal entrance. After police started to return fire the individuals blew themselves up. 41 people were killed in the attack, and at least another 239 injured, according to officials. Those killed include nationals of several countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq. While no group h...

UK Labour MPs pass motion of no-confidence in leader...
The vote follows over 20 members of the Shadow cabinet resigning blaming Mr Corbyn's performance leading up to last Thursday's referendum on the UK's membership on the European Union (EU). The Labour party had campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU. During the vote 172 Labour MPs voted in favour of the motion, while 40 voted against it. Four ballots were s...

Britain votes to leave the European Union
Following the results, David Cameron announced his intention to resign as the UK's Prime Minister. It is expected he will remain in his post before the UK Conservative Party choose a new leader ahead of their annual conference in October. He also said he would not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the process by which a member can leave the EU, leaving t...

Christina Grimmie in 2014 (Image: Justin Higuchi.)

Christina Grimmie killed by 'infatuated' fan; Orland...
Kevin James Loibl, age 27, took a taxicab to Orlando on June 9 from his St. Petersburg, Florida home, bringing along two 9mm Glock handguns and extra ammunition. He spent that night in a hotel. Following Grimmie's June 10 performance at The Plaza Live, he approached her as she signed autographs and opened fire, shooting her in the head once and the torso three...

Donald Trump with a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo. (Image: Donald J. Trump on Twitter.)

On the campaign trail in the USA, May 2016
The following is the first edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: a former Republican congressman briefly joins the Libertarian Party and runs for vice presi...

At least 50 dead in shooting at Florida nightclub
In the early morning hours of today , according to police, a man by the name of Omar Mateen entered Pulse Nightclub, a gay club in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire. 50 people were killed and 53 were hospitalized. It is now the largest mass shooting in United States history, with the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary shootings next. The shooter today us...

File photo of Ed Sheeran (Image: Eva Rinaldi.)

Lawsuit filed against Ed Sheeran for his single Phot...
On Wednesday, Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, songwriters of the song Amazing performed by Matt Cardle in The X Factor six years ago, claimed British singer Ed Sheeran copied it 'note-by-note' in his 2014 single Photograph. The duo claimed there are 39 identical notes in both the tracks and they seek about US$20m (about 17.8m euros) and royalties from t...

File photo of Maria Sharapova, 2014. (Image: Valentina Alemanno.)

International Tennis Federation bans Sharapova for t...
On Wednesday, the International Tennis Federation banned 29-year-old Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova for two years after she tested positive on January 26 for the drug meldonium. The drug was banned on January 1 this year. File photo of Maria Sharapova, 2014. Image: Valentina Alemanno. The tribunal found that I did not seek treatment from my do...

Location of Sichuan province in China (Image: TUBS.)

Two dead, thirteen missing after boat capsizes in Ch...
On Saturday, local authorities said a child died and three were being treated after a leisure boat capsized at Bailong Lake in Guangyuan, Sichuan province, China at 14:50 local time (0650 UTC). At about noon on Monday a search and rescue team found the body of a middle-aged male passenger; thirteen other people were still missing. According to officials, stro...

Over 270 civilians reported killed from shelling in ...
In a message directed to the UN's Secretary General and Security Council head, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry reported the attacks came from "moderate" opposition groups that were joining the Al-Nusra Front and its affiliates in Aleppo, Syria. According to the Center on Saturday, one of the opposition groups, Ahram al-Sham, joined the Al-Nusra Fro...

Brisbane man granted bail on charge of raping 15-yea...
Magistrate John Costello granted the defendant bail on condition he report to the police station three times weekly, stay at home at his current address at night unless his work required otherwise, and contact neither complainant nor witness. At the hearing, there was a question of whether the defendant knew the victim's age. Patrick Quinn, the defendant's la...

Location of the Engineering IV building on the UCLA campus. (Image: OpenStreetMap.)

Two people killed in apparent murder-suicide at UCLA
Two people were killed in an alleged murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus on Wednesday. The shooting occurred on the fourth floor of the Engineering IV building. The university's campus was in lockdown for aout two hours after the shooting from 10:00AM to noon local time. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have ident...

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