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Syria is sharply criticizing an upcoming event on the U.N. investigative body that is helping to document serious crimes during the seven-year Syrian conflict, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, said in a letter to General Assembly President ...
Social media, others should have one hour to remove terror propaganda: EU
The European Union proposed steps Wednesday to compel social media and websites to remove "terrorist" propaganda within an hour of receiving the order from authorities. If they do not, companies such as Facebook and Twitter will risk massive fines under the legislation, proposed by European ...
Syria regime assault on Idlib risks 'scattering terrorists' abroad: Paris
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Tuesday that a Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib could scatter thousands of foreign jihadis abroad, posing a security threat to the West. "There are in all likelihood dozens of French fighters from both ...
Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with tears and somber tributes as President Donald Trump hailed "the moment when America fought back" on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims' relatives said prayers for their ...
'Lives torn apart in 82 seconds,' U.K. Westminster attack inquest hears
A man who mowed down pedestrians with a car near Britain's Parliament before stabbing a policeman ruined many lives in a matter of seconds, an inquest heard on Monday, as it began with tributes to the victims and details of their last moments. On March ...
Al-Shabab takes credit as car bomb kills six outside Somali government office
Six people were killed and another 16 injured when a car bomb exploded outside a local government office in Mogadishu on Monday, Somali police and rescue workers said. "Our ambulance teams have collected the dead bodies of six people," said Abdiqadir Abdirahman, director of the ...
Taliban kill scores in attacks on security forces across north Afghanistan: officials
Taliban fighters killed nearly 60 members of Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces in a spate of attacks across the country's north, officials said Monday, as diplomatic efforts to end the 17-year war intensify. Heavy fighting overnight in four provinces followed a wave of violence across the ...
Driver plows through Lyon airport terminal before runway chase, capture
French police arrested a man Monday following a high-speed car chase on the runway at Lyon airport after he rammed his car into a terminal and drove through the building. Police said they began pursuing the white Mercedes when it was spotted speeding the wrong ...
At least seven killed in suicide attack on Kabul commemorations
A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up near a convoy of gunmen commemorating the death anniversary of a famed resistance leader in Kabul on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest deadly ...
Struggling for normalcy: Two hospitals reopen in war-ravaged Iraqi city of Mosul
Two hospitals reopened on Sunday in the heavily damaged western sector of Mosul, over a year since Iraqi security forces seized the city back from the Islamic State group. The hospitals — one an emergency centr, the other specializing in gynacology and obstetrics — replace ...
Syrian government and Russian warplanes on Saturday targeted the southern edge of Idlib province with an intense wave of airstrikes and shelling, activists and a war monitoring group said, ratcheting up the military pressure on the densely populated rebel-held bastion. The intense air raids came ...
New York scientists use newly developed DNA tools to put names to unidentified 9/11 victims
New DNA analysis techniques are helping identify more victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, scientists in the office of New York City's chief medical examiner said Thursday. Although the death toll after two hijacked airliners crashed into the ...
