BRUSSELS, (APP/AFP) – A man with a fake suicide belt was arrested after a bomb scare at a shopping centre triggered a major anti-terror operation in central Brussels on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Belgium remains on a high state of alert after Islamic State-claimed bomb attacks in March left 32 dead at the airport and […]
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Man arrested at Brussels shopping centre after bomb alert
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Car bomb kills Jordan soldiers near Syria border: army
AMMAN, (APP/AFP) – A car bomb killed several Jordanian soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the Syrian border on Tuesday, the army said. “At 5:30 am (0230 GMT) a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district opposite the Syrian refugee camp, killing or wounding several Jordanian soldiers,” a short statement said, without […]
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Pakistan-born American says he reported Florida Killer Omar Mateen to FBI
WASHINGTON, (APP): A Muslim American of Pakistani descent says he had told about Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in Florida State, to FBI after listening to his radical thoughts in 2014, and criticized Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump for accusing Muslims for not sharing such information with government officials. Writing in the leading US […]
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Malaysian opposition politician shot dead: police
KUALA LUMPUR, (APP/AFP) – A Malaysian opposition politician who worked on native land rights issues was shot dead on Tuesday six weeks after a failed run for a local assembly seat. Bill Kayong, 43, was gunned down in his pickup truck while stopped at a traffic light in the small city of Miri in Sarawak […]
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Vanuatu tourist bus crash kills three, injures 10
SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – Three Vanuatu locals were killed and 10 Australian tourists injured, some seriously, when two buses collided in the Pacific island nation’s capital, officials said Tuesday. The tourists were on a stopover during a P&O cruise from Brisbane to Noumea in New Caledonia when their bus slammed into another vehicle late Monday in […]
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China to ‘send plane’ as Taiwanese face deportation from Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, (APP/AFP) – Eight more Taiwanese nationals have been arrested in Cambodia over an alleged telephone scam, police said Tuesday, with China apparently poised to send a plane to collect them despite fierce opposition from Taipei. Taipei accuses Beijing of “abducting” its citizens from countries that do not recognise the island’s government — such […]