All suspects in wave of bombings that killed more than 250 people named, 10 days after attacks Sri Lanka’s police have named nine people they say staged the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 257 people, and said the attackers’ assets would be confiscated in line with anti-terror laws. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera confirmed on
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Two people accused of impersonating detectives to try and break their ‘partner’ out of jail have been arrested. Francine Olson, 22, and Brandon Reyes, 24, allegedly told staff at the sheriff’s office in DeSoto County, Florida, that they were ‘new detectives’. Police said the pair were attempting to free their ‘partner’ George Chanza, 40, from prison. The
President blames Trump imperialists and ‘coup-mongering far right’ as rival Juan Guaidó calls for more protests Nicolás Maduro claimed his troops have thwarted a botched attempt to topple him masterminded by Venezuela’s “coup-mongering far right” and Donald Trump’s deranged imperialist “gang”. In an hour-long address to the nation on Tuesday night – his first since the pre-dawn
WELLINGTON – A man in Christchurch was charged in court on Wednesday with possessing explosives, ammunition and offensive weapons a day after police found a suspected explosive device in the city where 50 Muslims were killed in attacks on two mosques in March. Police said the 33-year-old suspect had no known link to those attacks. He was
Joe Biden is surging among Democratic presidential contenders with 38 percent of the vote – and 56 percent of Democrat-leaning voters believe he has the best shot of beating President Trump in the 2020 election, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Biden, who entered the race last week and held his first campaign rally
“Run, Hide, Fight. Secure yourself immediately,” the university said on Twitter shortly before 6 p.m. Two people were killed and four others wounded, three critically, in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, officials said. Police said one suspect, who some local media reported was a student at the school, was taken
The family of a 19-year-old girl murdered by her stalker have said that changes made by the police force she appealed to for help are ‘too little, too late’. The parents of Shana Grice have spoken out after Sussex Police confirmed some of the officers involved in her case would be facing disciplinary action and on
Shocking footage has emerged showing two of Australia’s most notorious inmates brawling inside one of the country’s toughest prisons. Security cameras inside Goulburn’s Supermax prison caught the vicious fight between Bassam Hamzy, 39, and Talal Alameddine, 25, in October last year. Hamzy, a convicted killer, was pummeled multiple times by Alameddine throughout the altercation. The
Total number of gatherings in Auckland reduced from 84 to 26 in wake of mosque shootings More than 50 Anzac events and parades have been cut in New Zealand’s largest city at the request of police, as the country’s terror risk remains high in the wake of the deadly Christchurch mosque attacks. Police have asked
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A University of South Carolina spokesman says a posthumous degree will be awarded to a student police say was killed after getting into a car she believed was her Uber ride. Spokesman Jeff Stensland told The State on Tuesday about the degree for 21-year-old Samantha Josephson. Authorities say Josephson got separated from friends in