SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – A radicalised prisoner allegedly carved an Islamic State slogan into the forehead of a fellow inmate in Australia, reports said Monday, but officials denied extremism was a problem in the jail system. The 18-year-old, named as Bourhan Hraichie, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and intentional choking following the incident […]
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Australian prisoner ‘carves IS slogan’ into head of cellmate
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Somalia executes journalist killer
MOGADISHU, (APP/AFP) – Somali police on Monday executed by firing squad a journalist who assassinated colleagues for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group. Hassan Hanafi, sentenced to death last month after military judges said he had confessed to his role in the killing of five journalists, was executed at a police academy in the capital Mogadishu […]
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Kerry, G7 ministers to visit Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial
HIROSHIMA, Japan, (APP/AFP): John Kerry and other G7 foreign ministers on Monday were set to make a landmark visit to the memorial site for the world’s first nuclear attack, as a US official ruled out an apology for the World War II atomic bombing that left 140,000 people dead. Kerry is the first US secretary […]
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US military, watchers rescue 3 men from deserted Pacific island
LOS ANGELES, (APP/AFP) – The US military said it has helped rescue three stranded men from a deserted Pacific island, after the shipmen used palm fronds to spell the word “HELP” and held up lifejackets. Navy airplane crew members spotted the survivors and shared their location with relatives as well as with ships in Guam. […]
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Turkey election authority denies being source of data leak: report
ISTANBUL, (APP/AFP) – Turkey’s election authority has denied that a massive data leak which saw the personal information of 50 million citizens posted online came from its system, local media reported Saturday. The government said the data appeared to be that shared with different political parties ahead of elections in 2009. “Engineers did investigations. Although […]
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France ‘wrong’ to designate Panama a tax haven: president
PANAMA CITY, (APP/AFP) – France’s decision to put Panama back on its list of tax havens in the wake of the Panama Papers revelations is “wrong,” Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela said on Friday. “I want to be very clear that the decision taken by France’s government is a wrong and unnecessary step, even more […]