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British counterterroism agents say many of Mancheste...
United Kingdom Related articles 27 May 2017: British counterterroism agents say many of Manchester arena suicide bomb...

Fatal police helicopter crash in Slovakia due to tec...
According to initial reports by the Slovak Police Force, the helicopter spiraled down from a height of about 100 metres...

17 million accounts' hashed passwords, emails stolen...
Friday, May 19, 2017 Computing Related articles 19 May 2017: 17 million accounts' hashed passwords, emails stolen, Zomato says 28 April 2017: Debian to shutdown public File Transfer Protocol services 8 April 2017: GNOME to be Ubuntu's default desktop environment, Canonical to stop investing in Ubuntu Phone 10 December 2016: Telegram introduces bidirect...

Supreme Court of India begins hearing against triple...
Friday, May 12, 2017 Crime and law Related articles 12 May 2017: Supreme Court of India begins hearing against triple talaq 11 May 2017: President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey, raising questions about Russia investigation 2 May 2017: Several episodes of 'Orange is the New Black' released prematurely by hacker 2 May 2017: Turkey blocks Wikipedia, a...

President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey, rais...
CNN reports a source within the White House told CNN reporter Dana Bash the President's office gave this reason intending to avoid controversy because many Democrats have also criticized Comey for mishandling the Clinton case, and some have blamed him for Clinton losing the election. Specifically, recently confirmed Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ...

Turkey blocks Wikipedia, alleging smear campaign
Saturday morning, at 8:00 a.m. local time (0500 UTC), residents of Turkey who tried to view Wikipedia in any language received only a "connection timed out" screen. According to watchdog group Turkey Blocks, this was not a technical issue but rather the Turkish government barring access to the crowdsourced encyclopedia under a law stipulating it can block webs...

28-year-old suspect charged for attacking Borussia D...
Saturday, April 22, 2017 Crime and law Related articles 22 April 2017: 28-year-old suspect charged for attacking Borussia Dortmund's team bus 16 April 2017: Canada to legalise marijuana to 'make it more difficult for kids to access' 12 April 2017: Borussia Dortmund's team bus hit with explosives before Champions League match, Marc Bartra injured 31 March ...

Canada to legalise marijuana to 'make it more diffic...
Sunday, April 16, 2017 Crime and law Related articles 16 April 2017: Canada to legalise marijuana to 'make it more difficult for kids to access' 12 April 2017: Borussia Dortmund's team bus hit with explosives before Champions League match, Marc Bartra injured 31 March 2017: Impeached South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested 30 March 2017: James Jacks...

20 confirmed dead after Kintampo freak tree accident
Eighteen students, according to Ghana National Fire Service spokesman Prince Billy Anaglate, were killed at the falls, while another two were rushed to hospital and died in care. Varying reports indicated possibly up to 18 people remaining in a critical condition who were trapped under the tree, who were then rescued and rushed to hospital, including a Wenchi ...

Malysian police chief publicly confirms murdered man...
On Friday, Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar spoke to reporters and confirmed the man murdered in Kuala Lumpur International Airport was indeed Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "We have fulfilled the requirement of the laws on his identification," he said. Malaysian authorities had been very cautious about...

Break-in attempted at mortuary housing remains of Ki...
Malaysian police yesterday reported an attempted break-in at the morgue where the body of Kim Jong Nam was being held. Kim, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed on February 13 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in what authorities are treating as a murder case. The police have increased security at the morgue. We know who [the ...

Malaysian authorities arrest fourth suspect in killi...
Malaysian authorities on Friday arrested North Korean man Ri Jong Chol, 46, on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother to Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korean leader. He died in Malaysia on Monday morning. According to South Korean officials, he was killed by a fast-acting poison administered by two women who approached him in K...

Yemen requests re-evaluation of U.S. ground operatio...
The official government of Yemen issued a statement on Wednesday requesting a re-evaluation the role of the United States in antiterrorism ground operations on its soil, in response to a January 29 raid by United States SEAL Team Six that killed several Yemeni citizens. An earlier report alleged Yemeni officials told the White House their government had wit...

Travel to U.S. resumes after federal judge blocks ex...
In response to a lawsuit filed by Washington State attorney Bob Ferguson in Seattle, U.S. federal judge James Robart on Saturday ordered the suspension of a January 27 executive order issued by U.S. President Donald J. Trump suspending entry to the U.S. by refugees and individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries. The Department of Homeland Security compli...

Tshisekedi's supporters during his 2011 election campaign. (Image: Vote Tshisekedi Presidential Campaign (Flickr).)

Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi dies
Etienne Tshisekedi, leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDSP), has died, according to an announcement on Wednesday by the party. He was 84. Tshisekedi was in Brussels, Belgium for medical treatment. He recently spent two years there for health issues, returning in July to DRC capital Kin...

U.S. federal judge halts Trump's ban on refugees, pe...
At 9:00 p.m. U.S. east coast time yesterday (0200 today UTC), a U.S. federal judge in Brooklyn issued an emergency ruling halting deportation of individuals from the U.S. under the ban on individuals from seven majority-Muslim countries entering the United States that president Donald Trump had initiated by executive order on Friday. Another judge in Virginia ...

Anti-abortion March for Life draws thousands in Wash...
Yesterday, thousands of anti-abortion protesters rallied in Washington, D.C. Unlike the half a million who walked to the White House waving signs last Saturday, these came to support one of the policies espoused by the United States president Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence: making abortion harder to come by. This event, called the March for Life...

File photo of a train station in Hannover. (Image: Bobanaut (Panaramio).)

German teenager sentenced to six years for stabbing ...
A court in Celle, Germany sentenced sixteen-year-old German-Moroccan girl Safia S. to six years in prison on Thursday for an attempted murder. Safia stabbed a 34-year-old police officer in February last year using a vegetable knife in a train station in Hannover. Phone chats revealed Safia acted on the behalf of ISIL, the judge said, though the militant gro...

Protesters dance for gay rights, health care at Phil...
On Wednesday night more than 1,000 protesters, most of them part of the LGBT community, staged a dance protest they called the 'Queer Rager' outside the Leows Hotel in Philadelphia's Center City, where the U.S. Republican Party has arranged a retreat. Protesters expressed concerns about traditional gay issues, but Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's im...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from file (Image: FNDE.)

Germany to drop 'lese majeste' law
German justice minister Heiko Maas called this law redundant and said, "the idea of lese majesty arose in an era long gone by. It no longer belongs in our criminal law". A year ago, German satirist Jan Böhmermann presented a poem on the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In the poem he said Erdoğan "kicks the Kurds, smacks the Christians, all while watch...

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