June 10, 2015
Makeshift memorial for woman shot, run over
Balloons, flowers, candles and a message spray-painted on the road make up a growing memorial for a South Florida mother of two who was shot and run over, Saturday. It happened early Saturday morning, in the area of Northeast 149th Street and Sixth…
June 10, 2015
Ex-SC officer indicted for murder in shooting of black man
A grand jury today affirmed the state of South Carolina's murder charge against a white former North Charleston police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man trying to run from a traffic stop. The shooting on April 4 was captured on video by…
June 10, 2015
Video shows black Muslim shot by Boston police, FBI
US authorities today released video of a black Muslim man shot dead by police and the FBI in Boston, and accused of planning to behead police officers. The grainy video was filmed by a surveillance camera fixed to a Burger King about 50 yards from…
June 5, 2015
Dozens Killed in Nigeria Market Blast
Officials in Nigeria said more than 30 people have been killed in a bomb blast in Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, in Nigeria's northeast where the militant group Boko Haram is active. Sa'ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency said…
June 4, 2015
Israel PM Netanyahu attacks Orange boss
Israel's Prime Minister has attacked the boss of the French telecom giant Orange for looking to pull out of a deal with an Israeli partner. On Wednesday, Orange CEO Stephane Richard said he would back out of an agreement with Partner……
June 2, 2015
US Congress Approves Reform of Lapsed Surveillance Program
The U.S. Congress has approved a bill to reform and restart the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records, along with other anti-terrorism tools that expired earlier this week. After days of intense and heartfelt debate about protecting…
June 2, 2015
Intense Airstrikes Over Syria’s Aleppo Region
The Syrian government is locked in a struggle with rebel militia groups in and around the country's largest city, Aleppo, in some of the most bitter fighting since the four-year-old uprising began in 2011. May was reportedly the bloodiest month…
May 29, 2015
FIFA Re-elects Blatter Amid Corruption Scandal
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has been re-elected to another four year term, days after football's governing body was shaken by widespread corruption allegations. Blatter was seven votes short of the required 140 majority in the first round of voting,…
May 28, 2015
Blatter warns of ‘more bad news’ for tainted FIFA
Beleaguered FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Thursday warned of "more bad news" for football's scandal tainted world body but rejected calls to resign over a widening corruption scandal. Blatter -- who faces a reelection vote Friday -- opened FIFA's…
May 21, 2015
David Cameron says he won’t ‘cave in’ on migration target
David Cameron says he will not give up on his immigration target despite net migration to the UK reaching its highest level for a decade. Net migration rose by 50% to 318,000 last year - with sharp increases from inside and outside the EU. A total…