3 killed in knife attack after train station smoke bombed in Taiwan, suspect plunges to his death from department store

3 killed in knife attack after train station smoke bombed in Taiwan, suspect plunges to his death from department store

A man with a knife and a smoke grenade attacked crowds indiscriminately in Taiwan’s capital on Friday evening, killing at least three people and injuring nine others, according to the national news agency and the city government. The suspect later fell to his death from a department store building. Police said the suspect was declared…

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NASA astronaut joins Russian cosmonauts for Thanksgiving Day ride to International Space Station

NASA astronaut joins Russian cosmonauts for Thanksgiving Day ride to International Space Station

American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International Space Station. With commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at the controls of the Soyuz MS-28/74S spacecraft, flanked on his left by flight engineer Sergey Mikaev and on the right by…

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Nine killed in accidental explosion at police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say

Nine killed in accidental explosion at police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say

Nine people have been killed and 32 injured after a stockpile of confiscated explosives accidentally blew up at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said. It comes just days after a car blast killed several people in Delhi, in what the government has called a “terror incident”. The explosion happened on Friday evening at…

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Africa: Media Regulator Suspends Radio Station for Three Months for Calling Military Govt a Junta

Africa: Media Regulator Suspends Radio Station for Three Months for Calling Military Govt a Junta

According to media reports, the CSC’s decision followed the publication of a post on Radio Omega’s Facebook page on 30 July, “which was deemed to contain malicious and discourteous remarks towards the Burkinabe authorities”. The post was in relation to a demonstration in the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou, concerning a Burkinabe influencer who died in detention…

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