Mexico: All 43 Missing Students Are Dead
Investigators are now certain that 43 college students missing since September were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state, the Mexican attorney general said…
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A Clear Timeline Of The Tamir Rice Shooting
When 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by the Cleveland police late last year after officers responded to a 911 call that Rice was swinging a gun around, the…
Transgender Woman, Ty Lee Underwood, Killed In Possible Hate Crime
A transgender woman was killed in what one of her friends said was a hate crime. – “She’s a fan favorite,” Darks told KLTV. “Everybody likes Ty.”
Islamic State Affiliate Says It’s Behind Assault on Libyan Hotel
TRIPOLI, Libya — An affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an armed assault on a luxury hotel that killed as many as five people here on Tuesday, the…
Lacey Spears On Trial After Allegedly Poisoning Her Son With Sodium
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A confounding and heartbreaking murder case alleging that a mother purposely poisoned her 5-year-old son with salt and documented his decline on social media began…
Former Fox Employee Kills Himself In Front Of News Corp Building
NEW YORK — A man claiming to be a former employee of a Fox station in Austin, Texas, shot and killed himself Monday outside of the News Corporation building, the…
Russia’s Lavrov calls for Western criticism of Kiev
At a press conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed Kiev for renewed fighting and civilian deaths in Ukraine and questioned the West’s lack of condemnation. Fighting between…
Toll Of Filipino Commandos Killed In Rebel Clash Rises To At Least 43
At least 43 Philippine police commandos were killed in a fierce battle with Muslim guerrillas after launching an assault in which they may have killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted…
Scores of Philippine Police Officers Killed in Firefight With Rebels
MANILA — At least 43 police officers in the southern Philippines were killed during an attempt to capture one of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorism suspects, police and government officials…
At Least 18 Die in Egyptian Violence
CAIRO — At least 18 people were killed in political violence on Sunday, the fourth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising, a reminder of the ruthless crackdown the military-backed government…
Man With Overturned Murder Conviction Dies In Car Crash
LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York man who served nearly 18 years in prison before his conviction on a charge he killed his wife was overturned has…
Boko Haram in fierce battle with troops for Nigerian city
The Islamists attacked the village of Jintilo on the outskirts of the city around 5:00 a.m. but were engaged in a gunbattle by troops stationed there. The village is about…
At Least 30 Filipino Police Commandos Killed In Clash With Rebels
A Philippine town mayor says more than 30 police commandos have been killed in a clash with Muslim rebels while hunting a top terror suspect in the south. It was…
Boko Haram Attacks Biggest City In Northeast Nigeria, Dozens Killed
In fierce fighting Sunday, Nigerian troops clashed with Islamic extremists who attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria. Dozens of combatants have been killed and wounded, soldiers and hospital…
Libyan Militant Group Says Its Leader, Mohammed al-Zahawi, Was Killed
CAIRO — The extremist Islamist militant group Ansar al-Shariah, based in Benghazi, Libya, said Saturday that its leader, Mohammed al-Zahawi, had been killed. Unconfirmed reports that Mr. Zahawi was wounded…
12-Year-Old Queens Girl Shot In Head Calls 911 After Father Murders Family
NEW YORK (AP) — In the quiet of a pre-dawn Saturday on a dead-end street, a father came home and shot his family in their heads, leaving women in three…
Fighting In Ukraine Surges To Worst Level In Months
KIEV, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed in shelling in the east Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, Ukraine’s interior ministry said, an attack Kiev blamed on…
Military Helicopter Crashes In California, Killing 2 Marines
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) — The military says two Marines were killed when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Southern California. – No other details were available early…
14 Cats Dead In Fire
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Firefighters say a fire in a central Pennsylvania home killed 14 cats and displaced three people. – Neighbors say they saw flames shooting 20 feet from…
Amedy Coulibaly, Gunman in Paris Attacks, Is Buried Outside City
PARIS — Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three attackers in a three-day onslaught in which 17 people were killed in and around Paris, was buried early Friday in Thiais, a…
How Individuals Can Help Prevent The Next Global Outbreak
The 2014 Ebola outbreak has sickened approximately 21,000 people and killed more than 8,600, so it’s no surprise that the epidemic loomed large over this year’s World Economic Forum in…
U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles
The number of fighters killed has not been publicly discussed before but was disclosed by the U.S. ambassador to Iraq who told Al Arabiya television earlier in the day that…
Recalling Romania's Revolution
Photo: Poh Si Teng and Ben Laffin; Video: Poh Si Teng and Ben Laffin Credit Luis Mallo Credit Robert Frank Credit Paccarik Orue – Syrian men carry the wounded after…
French Premier Announces ‘Exceptional’ Measures Against Terrorism
Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, announced new investment in the French intelligence services in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. PARIS — Two weeks after one of…
PM Valls sets out ‘exceptional measures’ to safeguard France from terror
Valls, speaking in Paris, said some 3,000 people in France with jihadist ties needed to be under surveillanceand that the number of people with links to networks in Iraq and…
Yemen Fast Facts
Population: 26,052,966 (July 2014 est.) Median age: 18.6 years Capital: Sanaa Ethnic Groups: Predominantly Arab, also Afro-Arab, South Asian, European Religion: Muslim including Shaf’i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers…
Supporters Doubt Argentine Prosecutor Killed Self
The ex-wife of a prosecutor who accused Argentine President Cristina Fernandez of protecting the masterminds of a 1994 bombing does not believe an initial finding that he killed himself on…
Michael Moore explains snipers are ‘cowards’ tweet
“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2,” Moore tweeted. “We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes. And invaders r worse.” The backlash…
From Antwerp to Aleppo — and back: Europe’s nightmare
His family and friends were stunned. One friend told the local newspaper SudInfo: “He doesn’t even speak Arabic very well.” On Friday, the day after Belgian police killed two extremists…
Michael Moore Offers Opinion On ‘American Sniper’ Following Sniper Tweets
On Sunday, Michael Moore tweeted out that he was taught snipers “were cowards” who would shoot people in the back if given the chance. My uncle killed by sniper in…