While Kim Jong Un regularly takes a drag of his cigarette in front of state cameras, North Korea is investing even more in its public health campaign to curb smoking — state media highlighted several ongoing projects at the DPRK’s “smoking cessation research center” on Friday. According to North Korea’s state-run Arirang Meari, the research […]
(Last Updated On: May 1, 2021) Kabul security was ramped up on Saturday as the city braced for attacks by the Taliban due to the presence of foreign troops in the country – despite the May 1 withdrawal deadline agreement signed last year between the US and the Taliban. An increased military presence and security […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Five people were killed and one injured in a helicopter crash at a glacier near Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers said Sunday. Searchers found the crash site and lone survivor late Saturday night after the helicopter was reported overdue, the troopers said in a written statement. The injured person was rescued and reported […]
HONOLULU — A pilot’s aggressive takeoff led to an aerodynamic stall, causing the 2019 crash of a skydiving plane on Oahu that killed all 11 people on board, government safety investigators have determined. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said the stall caused a loss of control at an altitude that was too low for […]
Austin has been targeted by four package bombings since March 2 that killed two people and wounded four others. A fifth parcel bomb detonated at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio early Tuesday. Manley said the suspect is believed to be responsible for all the major Austin bombings, but authorities acknowledged it was too […]
A helicopter that crashed Saturday evening near the Knik Glacier, killing five of six people aboard, just missed clearing the top of a mile-high mountain ridge, according to federal investigators. The Airbus AS350B3 carried two guides and three clients from a lodge on a heli-skiing expedition in the steep, snowy backcountry of the Chugach Mountains […]
Two Adelaide men have been charged after police raids linked to an investigation into “ideologically motivated violent extremism” allegedly uncovered a bomb and extremist material. The charges came after the leader of a prominent Australian neo-Nazi group said about 15 of its Adelaide members were raided early on Wednesday morning. Police charged a 28-year-old man […]
A contracted helicopter carrying guides and guests from a lodge on a heli-skiing trip in Southcentral Alaska’s backcountry crashed Saturday evening, killing the pilot and four others, including the Czech Republic’s richest man. The only other person onboard was in serious but stable condition Sunday night at an Anchorage hospital, Alaska State Troopers said. The […]
It has been 25 years since the Oklahoma City bombing. Anyone remembering that event and its aftermath will at some point ask, “What did that attack do?” The question has a technical answer: It killed 168 people and injured hundreds more, gutted the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and destroyed or damaged more than […]
Rabat – Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) handed France essential information about a French woman of Moroccan origin, who was plotting a terrorist attack in a church. The data enabled France to prevent the attack, a statement from the spokesperson of the DGST said today. The data enabled French services to make several […]
