Month: December 2019

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) – Suicide bombers struck the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring scores in a major attack that could scupper plans to revive peace talks between the United States and the Taliban. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which struck the Bagram…

A series of airstrikes were called in following a failed attempt by the Taliban to breach Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, according to a Resolute Support spokesman. U.S. and Afghan forces were pulled into a nine-to 10-hour firefight after a suicide bombing targeted a medical facility that was under construction near the base, a…

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Tourists from the cruise ship that was near the volcanic island in New Zealand when it erupted arrived in Wellington on Thursday, many traumatised by the deaths of co-passengers and others recalling their brush with tragedy. Royal Caribbean’s 16-deck cruise liner, Ovation of the Seas, was docked…

WASHINGTON – Houston’s police chief sharply criticized the two Republican U.S. senators from his state and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over gun control legislation during an emotional news conference as he prepared to escort the body of a police officer killed in the line of duty to a funeral home.  Sgt. Christopher Brewster, 32,  was fatally shot…

SHELBY, N.C. (AP) — Barrels of raw pork shoulder were riding fat in a tractor trailer pulled over by North Carolina deputies. Approximately $3 million in cash was recovered from the barrels Saturday, the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Tuesday. The driver of the tractor trailer was accused of failing to maintain…

A boy genius has dropped out of university weeks before the final exams that would have made him the world’s youngest graduate at the age of just nine.  Laurent Simons, who is half Belgian and half Dutch, was pulled out of his electrical engineering degree by his parents after relations between them and the Eindhoven…

A child prodigy was on track to be the youngest person to graduate from college until, his parents claim, the school veered off course. Laurent Simons, 9, stepped into the global spotlight last month when news broke that he would finish his electrical engineering degree at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in the Netherlands in December,…

A Barnard College freshman has tragically died after being stabbed multiple times at a New York City park. The woman, an 18-year-old student, was found stabbed at Morningside Park near W. 116th St. and Morningside Drive at around 5:35 p.m. on Wednesday, New York City Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE. According to authorities, the student…

An 18-year-old college student was repeatedly stabbed by a group of assailants in a Manhattan park on Wednesday night before stumbling away for help, only to collapse before she could find any. The woman, identified as Tessa Majors, a first-year student at Barnard College, was later found collapsed in front of a security booth near…

Mélissa Theuriau a toujours été impressionnée par les femmes fortes et talentueuses. L’animatrice a beaucoup d’estime pour certaines journalistes qui ont d’ailleurs été une source d’inspiration pour sa propre carrière. Sur Instagram, elle a tenu à faire une déclaration à l’une d’entre elles. Mélissa Theuriau n’a pas toujours rêvé de devenir journaliste. Petite, elle n’avait…