The U.S. military carried out limited strikes Monday on Iran’s Qeshm Island, according to two U.S. officials. The officials said the U.S. attacks, which came on the eve of crucial U.S. midterm elections and as the Middle East is anxious about the possibility of a return to all-out war, were not a resumption of major…
A search is underway for three armed men who broke into a mansion in Toronto, Canada, belonging to a real estate CEO in the early morning hours Thursday and attacked and injured the family inside, authorities said. The suspects, who were masked, forced their way through a back entrance of the five-bedroom home in the…
A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped in central Spain, derailing two cars and killing at least 68 people Wednesday morning, according to local authorities. The regional government of Castilla La Mancha confirmed the death toll and said another 58 people were receiving medical treatment at hospitals. Rescue workers…
A gunman shooting from his car killed one person and wounded several others in the Paris suburb of Trappes on Friday, in what authorities described as a racially motivated act of terrorism. President Emmanuel Macron called it “a racist terror attack” and said the suspect’s statements suggested it was premeditated. The alleged shooter was “firing…
The Kenyan man had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on 3 October. He later died, becoming Kenya’s first recorded Ebola death in the current outbreak. Although both patients passed through Entebbe airport on the same day, health officials have not established whether they met, used the same…
A blaze that killed four soldiers and injured several dozen more on a military base in the Canadian province of Alberta last week broke out on a grenade launcher range during training exercises, officials said Thursday. The fire sparked Oct. 17 on the automatic grenade launcher range of Canadian Forces Base Wainwright “during routine military…
Across sub-Saharan Africa, revenue authorities are increasingly changing how they engage with small businesses. The traditional approach involved audits, penalties and inspections. But more recently many are investing in taxpayer education, “door-to-door” visits, and focusing on ways to make it easier to comply. The logic driving the change is that auditing every small trader is…
Canada’s defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire. “I’m saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base,” Defense Minister David McGuinty said. The incident occurred at…
Selma Blair was taken into custody after being physically abusive on a Delta Airlines flight traveling from Los Angeles to New York City on Sunday, according to a New York Port Authority spokesperson. The “Cruel Intentions” actor, 54, was identified as the suspect by the Port Authority, which noted that she was taken to a…
US immigration agents searched the home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday morning as part of a “criminal investigation”. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents “executed a judicially authorized search warrant” for the home in the Washington, DC, area, a US justice department spokesperson told the BBC. The search “is part of an ongoing federal…
