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  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by jcscher
    +34 +1

    Brussels raids: Paris Attack Suspect Abdeslam Arrested

    Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and arrested in an anti-terrorism raid in Brussels, officials say.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by hxxp
    +32 +1

    Woman burnt alive in India 'honour killing': police

    A woman has been burnt to death by her brothers for marrying a man belonging to a different caste, police said, in the latest incident of a so-called honour killing in India. Rama Kunwar, 30, had eloped with her lover eight years ago and returned to her village in western Rajasthan state on Friday, hoping her family had forgiven her for marrying against their wishes. But her still enraged brothers barged in as she was visiting her in-laws'...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by kong88
    +47 +1

    Activist Predicts Death, Says The Cops Killed Him

    The man who was found stabbed inside a burning home in Fresno last week is confirmed to be John Lang, a frequent poster in the Fresno People’s Media group on Facebook and acquaintance to many in the Fresno activist community. But this is only a small part of the story. John seemingly predicted his own murder and says Fresno law enforcement is responsible. Days before his death, he was adamant that Fresno law enforcement would conclude their...

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by canuck
    +21 +1

    Artificial truth -- "I'm scared"

    I'm currently living in Paris, the city where less than one month ago, some fanatics killed people because they were listening to music, watching a football match, or simply enjoy beers in a bar. I was living in the neighbourhood of where those tragic event happened. Now I'm scared. I'm not scared of terrorists. I'm scared of my own country.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by TNY
    +39 +1

    Brother kills sister for voting in Pakistan

    An angry brother shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he had forbidden her to do so, police said Wednesday. The murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Islamabad on Tuesday, according to officials. Danish Ali, 20, was furious because his sister Asifa Noreen, a 32-year old schoolteacher, had defied his instructions and cast her vote, local police official Naeem Abbas told AFP.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by wildcard
    +39 +1

    Most attacks in US carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists

    Police have named the suspect who walked into a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado on Friday, killing three people and wounding nine more. His name is Robert Lewis Dear, 57. He is white and he's from North Carolina. We don't know anything about his motives yet, so we can't say if it was an act of terrorism. In order for something as terrible as the attack on Planned Parenthood to be considered terrorism, it needs to be motivated by an ideological belief.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by hedman
    +23 +1

    Homeless veteran, beaten by teens on camera in Olney, dies

    Watch the video Homeless veteran, beaten by teens on camera in Olney, dies on Yahoo News . Surveillance video shows 51-year-old Robert Barnes being pummeled by teens with a hammer, a piece of wood and punches, after police say a 10-year-old boy told his mother he got into an argument with Barnes.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by 8mm
    +20 +1

    Terrifying video shows Bradford dad attacked by pickaxe thugs ‘for converting from Islam to Christianity’

    A FATHER-of-six was attacked by hooded thugs with a pickaxe handle outside his Bradford home because he converted from Islam to Christianity. Nissar Hussain, 49, suffered a broken kneecap, a fractured forearm and a concussion in the attack on Tuesday.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +31 +1

    This Is What They Did For Fun

    The Story Of A Modern-Day Lynching. By Albert Samaha.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by aj0690
    +44 +1

    'Kill a cop, save a child' vandalism a 'hate crime,' North Carolina police chief says

    The vandal who scrawled a call for the murder of cops over a suburban North Carolina town's mural committed a hate crime, as far as the local police chief is concerned. The words, "Kill a cop, save a child," were found early Friday spray-painted across a partially finished mural at the Garner Police Department's new building, which is currently under construction, Garner Police Chief Brandon Zuidema told FoxNews.com. A similar incident occurred three nights later...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by hxxp
    +26 +1

    German mayoral candidate Reker stabbed over refugee support

    A leading candidate in Cologne's mayoral race has been stabbed in the neck by a man claiming to be angry over the country's refugee policies. Henriette Reker - an independent candidate supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party - was seriously injured along with an aide. Three others suffered minor injuries. Local police said Ms Reker, 58, was "stable, but not out of the woods". Police have arrested a 44-year-old German national and Cologne resident.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by everlost
    +28 +1

    Killed teenager in New York 'wanted to leave church'

    Church members accused of beating to death a 19-year-old have told police they had been discussing his desire to leave the New York congregation. Lucas Leonard died and his younger brother was seriously injured after both were beaten for hours on Sunday. New Hartford's police chief said the six church members arrested over the death said the meeting was called to talk about Leonard's plans to leave.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by wildcard
    +26 +1

    The Anniversary and a New Theory About Mexico's Missing 43

    On Sunday, September 6th, in Mexico City, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) presented the highly anticipated results of its six-month investigation into the events of September 26 and 27, 2014, in Iguala, Guerrero. That was the date when forty-three students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal School, in Ayotzinapa, disappeared, three more were killed, and many others were injured, some severely.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by funhonestdude
    +21 +1

    Artist fatally shot while working on anti-violence mural in Oakland

    mural artist was fatally shot Tuesday while working on a community art piece under a freeway overpass in Oakland, police said. Police have not identified the artist, but friends say his name is Antonio Ramos, a painter who worked on a mural project led by the Attitudinal Healing Connection.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by fanficmistress
    +12 +1

    Black couple sues city and neighbor over neighbor's slurs, threats

    Citing a sliver of civil rights-era legislation more commonly used as protection against discriminatory landlords, a black couple is suing their former neighbor and a north Georgia city they say failed to stop him from harassing them.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by funhonestdude
    +23 +1

    Feminists In Mexico Are Being Warned To Be Quiet Or Be Killed

    Nadia Vera, 32, a proud feminist and social activist, was murdered in her flat in Mexico City along with four other women last month. Three of them, including Vera and her journalist friend Rubén Espinosa (both pictured above), were allegedly raped and tortured before being shot in the head. Many believe they were targeted because they dared to demand equal rights for women across the country, attending protests, staging plays and writing politically charged poems.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by wildcard
    +22 +1

    Neo-Nazis urinate on children in Berlin train

    Two neo-Nazis racially abused a woman and her two children on a Berlin city train this weekend before urinating on them, police said on Monday. The woman and her two children – aged around five and 15 – were travelling on the city's ring line at around 9:45pm on Saturday when two men embarked at Landsberger Allee, reports the Berliner Zeitung. The men, aged 32 and 37, quickly began hurling racist insults at the family, who appeared to be of southeast European origin.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by KondoR
    +16 +1

    Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting 'foreigners out'

    Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants. Police said protesters shouting "foreigners out" and carrying banners against the "asylum flood" threw bottles and stones at busloads of asylum seekers arriving in Heidenau, near Dresden. At least 31 officers were hurt in violent scuffles as police used tear gas to disperse crowds.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by zobo
    +18 +1

    Changed locks led suspect to break into home, kill 8, police say.

    David Conley told Harris County Sheriff's investigators that he broke into his former home and killed eight people because the woman he formerly lived with had changed the locks on the doors, according to a Harris County prosecutor. During probable cause court Sunday, a prosecutor recounted Conley's statement to investigators that he broke into the home Saturday through an open window after Valerie Jackson changed the locks.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by Pfennig88
    +3 +1

    Five women accused of witchcraft lynched by India mob

    Villagers in a rural part of eastern India have killed five women whom they accused of practising witchcraft, police have said. Police in eastern Jharkhand state said on Saturday that a group of assailants dragged the women out of their huts and beat them to death at around midnight on Friday in their village, some 30km from state capital, Ranchi. "A group (of villagers) dragged the women out and beat them to death with sticks, accusing them of practicing witchcraft...