A total of 207 people were killed in a Wednesday attack by gunmen in western Ethiopia, the country ’ s Human Rights Commission said , more than doubling a previous count . The independent government body had on Wednesday said 100 people were killed in their sleep and crops burned in a pre – dawn […]

An explosion shook downtown Nashville early Friday, with black smoke filling the morning sky, according to local reports. Nashville’s Fox 17 said the blast was reported at approximately 5:40 a.m. local time. “There is an incident involving an explosion,” the Nashville Fire Department said in a statement. “This is an active scene. Metro Nashville Police […]

The killing of an unarmed African-American man by police in the US city of Columbus, Ohio sparked a fresh wave of outrage this week against racial injustice and police brutality in the country. Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was in the garage of a house on Monday night when he was shot several times by a […]

President Donald Trump has delivered a stern warning to Iran over alleged rocket attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The warning came in a tweet which includes a photograph of three unexploded rocket shells that the president claimed came from Iran. “Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets. Three rockets failed […]

A gunman has shot dead three police officers who were called to a domestic incident in central France. The officers were trying to help a woman who had fled to the roof of a house in the small village of Saint-Just early on Wednesday, reports the BBC. The gunman shot at the officers before setting […]

A couple forced their neighbours to sexually abuse their own four-year-old daughter, then they tortured the child to death, police say. Kourtney Aumen, 21, and her partner Ethan Mast, 35, are said to have beaten their neighbours’ young child from head to toe and dunked her in a freezing lake, before leaving her to die […]

Six Ukrainians were among the eight crew members abducted from a Cameroon-flagged STEVIA cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria by pirates. Spokesman for Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, was quoted as confirming the abduction of the six Ukrainians on Saturday the Ukrinform news agency. He, however, did not confirm the nationality of the other […]

At least nine coronavirus patients died on Saturday after an oxygen tank explosion triggered a fire at a hospital in southeastern Turkey, the health ministry said. The blaze in an intensive care ward of the hospital in Gaziantep broke out when a tank on an artificial respirator exploded. “We are profoundly saddened by this tragedy,” […]

A 2-year-old boy, Dima, was allegedly strangled to death and thrown in an oven by his grandparents. Parents of the toddler, Maria, 20, and Dmitry Shcherbakovy, 25, had arrived to pick up their two-year-old son, from his grandparents only to find his burned remains dumped in the snow. Daily Mirror reports that the incident happened […]