MEXICO CITY, (APP/AFP): A gang brought down a helicopter during a police operation in Mexico’s troubled western state of Michoacan on Tuesday, killing the pilot and three officers, the governor said. The aircraft was backing an operation to arrest leaders of criminal groups when it was the “official helicopter was downed” in an area with […]
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Criminals down police helicopter in Mexico, four dead
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Bomb kills three including four-year-old at Thai school
NARATHIWAT, Thailand, (APP/AFP) – A four-year-old girl and her father were among three killed Tuesday when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle’s fuel tank exploded outside a school in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south. The device went off as pupils and teachers filed into the school in the Tak Bai district of Narathiwat province for the start […]
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IS announces death of Australian jihadist in Syria
BEIRUT, (APP/AFP) – The Islamic State group has announced the death in Syria of an Australian jihadist convicted over a 2005 plot to bomb the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in a new English-language magazine. Ezzit Raad, who travelled to the Middle East after serving time in jail, died fighting for IS in Manbij near the battleground […]
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China warns new Hong Kong lawmakers not to back independence
HONG KONG, (APP/AFP) – Beijing has warned new Hong Kong lawmakers not to back independence for the semi-autonomous city after young anti-China activists won seats for the first time in key weekend elections. Sunday’s vote saw young activists pushing for more autonomy from Beijing secure a crucial foothold in the city’s Legislative Council (LegCo), as […]
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Putin lays flowers at Uzbek strongman’s grave
MOSCOW, (APP/AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday laid roses at the grave of late Uzbek leader Islam Karimov, whose death last week after 27 years in charge sparked fears of instability in the Central Asian nation. Footage broadcast by Russian state television showed Putin kneeling at Karimov’s flower-covered grave in the historic city […]
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Obama says provocations will deepen N. Korea isolation
VIENTIANE, (APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama warned North Korea’s government on Tuesday that provocative weapons tests would deepen the country’s isolation. “Today I’ll be meeting with (South Korean) President Park (Geun-hye) to reaffirm our unbreakable alliance and to insist that the international community remains united so that North Korea understands its provocations will only […]