TOKYO, (APP/AFP) – A mother in Japan is under investigation for murder after her four children, including a girl as young as three, were found dead at home, Japanese media reports and police said Monday. Local media reported the victims were killed by their mother before she tried to take her own life. A 10-year-old […]
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Mother in Japan questioned after 4 children found dead
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Wife of jailed Venezuela opposition leader condemns death threat
CARACAS, (APP/AFP) – The wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said late Sunday that her husband had received a death threat from prison guards. Lopez, one of leftist President Nicolas Maduro’s most hardline opponents, was arrested in February 2014 amid a wave of anti-government protests that swept Venezuela and left 43 people dead. […]
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Afghan district falls to Taliban: officials
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, (APP/AFP) – Taliban militants on Saturday captured a district in northeastern Kunduz province, near the provincial capital where militants scored their biggest victory in 14 years last September. The militants, have intensified their attacks nationwide and tightened their grip on the besieged capital of Helmand province southwest of Kunduz in recent weeks. Khan […]
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UN rights prober seeks Philippines visit, is rebuffed
MANILA, (APP/AFP) – The UN human rights investigator has told AFP she hopes to visit the Philippines to probe alleged extrajudicial killings, but President Rodrigo Duterte’s government bluntly declared she was unwelcome. Police have shot dead 665 suspects with vigilantes killing 889 others in an anti-drug crackdown, the Philippine police chief told a Senate hearing […]
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Regime planes over Syria’s Hasakeh despite US warning: monitor
BEIRUT, (APP/AFP) – Syrian government warplanes were again in the air over the mainly Kurdish-held city of Hasakeh early Saturday despite a US warning against any new strikes that might endanger its military advisers, a monitor said. It was not immediately clear whether the aircraft, which were in the skies throughout the night, had carried […]
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US, Ukraine urge end to soaring tensions with Russia
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – US Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko in a phonecall urged a speedy resolution to the conflict with pro-Russian separatists amid a spike in tensions with Moscow, the White House said late Friday. Biden and Poroshenko “expressed concern over the recent surge in fighting in eastern Ukraine, where ceasefire […]