A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said. Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another two Continue Reading
A gunman killed three black people in a racially motivated attack then killed himself in Jacksonville, Florida, the city’s sheriff said. The man, described as white and in his early 20s, entered a Dollar General store and opened fire, triggering a standoff with police. Sheriff T K Waters said two men and a woman were […]Continue Reading
India is hoping to make history on Wednesday by becoming the first nation to land near the Moon’s south pole. One of the mission’s major goals is to hunt for water-based ice, which scientists say could support human habitation on the Moon in future. If Chandrayaan-3 is successful, India will be only the fourth country […]Continue Reading
Officials in the US state of Georgia are investigating online threats made against members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump on Monday. Personal information, including the addresses and photos of the jurors, were shared on right-wing platforms. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said it was aware of the threats, and was trying to track […]Continue Reading
*Joe Biden in Constant Touch with Tinubu, Other European Allies. The United States of America has warned the Niger junta that America may be pushed to be involved militarily if the country’s military rulers do not return to constitutional order. The US acting Deputy Secretary, Victoria Nuland, in a special briefing on Niger disclosed this […]Continue Reading
Niger’s ousted leader has urged the US and “entire international community” to help “restore… constitutional order” after last week’s coup. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, President Mohamed Bazoum said he was writing “as a hostage”. According to the report, he also warned the region could fall further under Continue Reading
The US has offered “unflagging support” to Niger’s ousted president Mohamed Bazoum after he was ousted in a coup. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned those detaining Mr Bazoum that “hundreds of millions of dollars of assistance” was at risk. The head of the presidential guards unit Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has declared himself Continue Reading
A man has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, killing 11 people, officials say. The attack happened on Friday night in San Luis Rio Colorado, which borders the United States. The bar sits just one street away from the border. Authorities say a drunk […]Continue Reading
A suspected murderer with “survivalist skills” has broken out of a Pennsylvania jail by climbing on exercise equipment and is now the subject of a multi-state manhunt. Michael Burnham escaped from a jail in Warren, near a huge forest, overnight on Thursday. The public has been told to be vigilant and report suspicious people. He […]Continue Reading
Four people were shot dead in the city of Philadelphia late on Monday, US police have said. They said another two – children aged two and 13 – were injured in the attack in the city’s south-western Kingsessing area. All the victims are male. The suspected gunman is now in custody and his rifle and […]Continue Reading
At least two people were killed and 28 wounded in a mass shooting at a street party early Sunday in the US city of Baltimore, police said. Officials said more than one assailant opened fire at the celebration in Baltimore, a port city about an hour’s drive north of Washington which has one of the […]Continue Reading
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing at the start of two days of talks with Chinese officials. The visit is the first by an American diplomat to China in almost five years. US officials say the main goal of the talks is to stabilise a […]Continue Reading
An American woman has pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase during a luxury holiday at a resort in Bali in 2014. Heather Mack, now 27, was convicted in Indonesia in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released in 2021. She was arrested immediately […]Continue Reading