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Media captionEmergency services on the scene after “reports of shots fired” At least six people have been killed in New York after the driver of a truck mowed down people on a pedestrian and cycle path in Lower Manhattan. A man who emerged from the vehicle brandishing imitation guns was shot and arrested by police […]

An apartment house in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture where police found nine bodies in one of its units.  Photo: KYODO Nine dismembered bodies have been found in a man’s apartment just outside Tokyo after it was searched by police who suspected his involvement in the recent disappearance of a 23-year-old woman, police said Tuesday. Police arrested the 27-year-old […]

Qaim (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces recaptured more areas from Islamic State militants on Tuesday as operations continue to retake the group’s last bastions in western Anbar. Qaim town’s gate The Joint Operations Command’s War Media Cell said the forces recaptured several villages near the town of Qaim besides the town’s “phosphate factory”. According to the statement, […]

A Saudi woman is photographed as she checks a car at a showroom in Riyadh in this Oct. 5, 2017, file photo. — Reuters JEDDAH — The Directorate General of Traffic is making preparations to announce the rules and regulations for issuing driving license to women shortly. The move comes after a royal decree allowing women […]

German police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old Syrian man suspected of preparing an Islamist terror attack in the country using powerful explosives, prosecutors said. File photo/DPA The man, identified only as Yamen A., was held at dawn by special forces in the northeastern town of Schwerin, the federal prosecutors office said in a statement. Several apartments were […]

Russian genetic material is being harvested all over the country, purposefully and professionally, President Vladimir Putin has said, possibly hinting at the US Air Force’s earlier move to acquire Russian tissue samples. Russian President Vladimir Putin © Alexei Nikolsky / Reuters Putin was presiding over a meeting of Russia’s Human Rights Council Monday, when he […]

Puigdemont is in Brussels, Rajoy has called an emergency meeting of his cabinet to discuss Catalan elections and Spanish police have entered several Mossos d’Esquadra stations in Catalonia seeking recordings. Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP. 11:15am: Units of Spain’s Guardia Civil are allegedly on standby docked off the coast of Barcelona on a ship, according to a BBC World Service […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta last evening described his re-election as a validation of his victory in the August poll whose results were nullified by the Supreme Court. * President Uhuru Kenyatta shows his gratitude at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi, where he was declared winner of the rerun presidential election on October 30, 2017. He said he […]

Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted dismembering the body of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, whose body parts were found at sea after she interviewed him on board his homemade submarine, Copenhagen Police have confirmed. Copenhagen Police lead investigator Jens Møller Jensen speaks to media. Photo: Stine Tidsvilde/Polfoto/Ritzau In initial police questioning, Madsen, who is suspected […]