A US army veteran loyal to the Islamic State jihadist group likely acted alone when he killed 14 and injured dozens in a truck attack on a crowd of New Year revelers in New Orleans, the FBI said Thursday.Despite initial concerns that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, had accomplices still on the run, preliminary investigations show he …
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The decorated US special forces soldier who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas apparently shot himself in the head before the blast, authorities said Thursday, adding that his motivation was still “unknown.”Matthew Livelsberger, 37, a member of the elite Green Berets, appears to have committed suicide in the …
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Montenegro on Thursday began three days of national mourning, a day after a gunman killed 12 people including two children in a shooting rampage that started in a restaurant.The 45-year-old attacker died after shooting himself in the head when he was surrounded following an hours-long manhunt, police said.”Twelve people were killed, of whom two were …
UN experts on Thursday denounced Israel’s raid on an embattled hospital in northern Gaza, demanding an end to the “blatant assault” on health rights in the besieged Palestinian territory.Reiterating charges that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza — something the Israeli government strongly denies — two independent United Nations rights experts said they were “horrified” …
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A record 46,843 migrants reached Spain’s Canary Islands illegally in 2024 via the increasingly deadly Atlantic route, the second consecutive year of unprecedented arrival numbers, official data showed on Thursday.The landmark came as the European country received 63,970 irregular migrants last year, the vast majority in the Atlantic archipelago, up from 56,852 in 2023, the …
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The number of US-bound migrants passing through the Darien jungle fell by 41 percent in 2024, with around 302,000 attempting the dangerous journey from Colombia, Panama’s president said Thursday.Following an agreement signed with Washington in July, Panama has closed several routes in the Darien region and deported more than 1,500 migrants on flights to Colombia, …
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The Palestinian Authority has ordered the suspension of broadcasts by Al Jazeera in a move the Qatar-based television network condemned on Thursday as reminiscent of Israeli practices.The move drew condemnation from press watchdogs and the UN human rights office called on the PA to “reverse course and respect its international law obligations”.Al Jazeera is already …
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Twenty-seven migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil defence official told AFP on Thursday.The rescued and dead passengers, who were found off the Kerkennah Islands, aimed to reach Europe and were all from sub-Saharan African countries, said Zied Sdiri, head of civil defence …
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US authorities were investigating Thursday after an army veteran with an Islamic State flag who was “hellbent” on carnage steered a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens.The FBI identified the attacker as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas. He …
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Electric cars accounted for 89 percent of the new cars sold in Norway last year, a report said Thursday, pushing the country closer to reaching its goal of going fully electric by 2025.”We need only 10 percent more to reach the objective for 2025,” the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) said in a statement.Of the 128,691 …
