BERLIN, Oct 13 (APP/AFP) – A Syrian man arrested on suspicion he planned a bomb attack against a Berlin airport was found dead in his cell Wednesday after an apparent suicide, media reports said. Jaber Albakr, 22, who was arrested Monday following a two-day manhunt after police discovered explosives in his apartment, was found hanged […]
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Germany bomb plot suspect found dead in cell: reports
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Teens charged with terrorist offences in Australia
SYDNEY, Oct 13 (APP/AFP): Two 16-year-old boys were Thursday charged with terror-related offences in Australia, including planning an attack, after being arrested with “bayonet-type” knives in Sydney. The pair, who were not named, were seized in the city’s southwest on Wednesday after buying the weapons in a shop. They face life imprisonment after being charged […]
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US awaits flights to resume Haitian deportations
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (APP/AFP): US authorities will resume sending undocumented Haitian migrants back to their country when deportation flights can land again in the hurricane-ravaged country, the US government said Wednesday. US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had suggested during a visit to Mexico on Tuesday that he was temporarily suspending deportations of Haitians in […]
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Explosive Trump repeats call to jail Clinton
PUEBLO, United States, Oct 13 (APP/AFP): Hillary Clinton on Wednesday slammed rival Donald Trump’s “pure negativity” in their bitter presidential race, as he adopted an increasingly incendiary tone and renewed his call for the Democratic nominee to go to jail. With less than four weeks before Election Day, and Clinton maintaining her edge in national […]
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Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf steps down after fake accounts scandal
NEW YORK, Oct 13 (APP/AFP): Embattled Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf has retired with immediate effect following a sham accounts scandal, the San Francisco bank announced Wednesday. Stumpf’s departure from the US commercial and retail banking giant caps mounting public outrage after the bank admitted last month that employees had opened millions of […]
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Colombia peace accord’s defeat may be for the best: rebel leader
BOGOTA, Oct 13, (APP/AFP) – The leader of Colombia’s FARC said Wednesday it may have been for the best that the peace accord negotiated with the government was rejected in a national referendum. The victory for the “No” vote in the October 2 referendum was a stunning setback to a nearly four-year effort to end […]