New Zealand police on Wednesday ruled out any link between a bomb found in Christchurch and mosque shootings in March which killed 50 Muslim worshippers. Police and the military bomb squad swooped on a vacant lot just outside the city center Tuesday finding “a suspected explosive device” and rounds of ammunition. They said a 33-year-old […]
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After ‘caliphate’ collapse, extremists head to Afghanistan to plot attacks
Daesh fighters who waged a bloody campaign in Syria and Iraq are heading to Afghanistan to continue their battle and help plot “spectacular” attacks against America, a US official has told AFP. The warning comes as Daesh seeks to assert a regional influence after the loss of its self-proclaimed Middle East “caliphate,” and as South […]
Sri Lanka police wrongly ID American Muslim activist as attacks suspect
Sri Lankan police have been left red-faced after wrongly identifying a female American Muslim activist as a suspect in the deadly Easter bombings. On Thursday, police issued a flyer with the names and photos of six people — three men and three women — wanted in connection with attacks that killed over 250 people. Among […]
Sri Lanka may need more IMF help as blasts threaten tourism
Sri Lanka faces a likely collapse in tourism following Easter Sunday bomb attacks on churches and hotels, which would deal a severe blow to the island’s economy and financial markets, and potentially force it to seek further IMF assistance. The International Monetary Fund extended last month a $1.5 billion loan for an extra year into […]
Journalism in Venezuela: it would be ‘a crime’ to stop
Journalism is becoming “very complicated” in Venezuela where power outages, patchy internet and threats of violence have made reporting increasingly difficult, says Luz Mely Reyes. But she says it would be “a crime” to stop. The director of Venezuelan independent news site Efecto Cocuyo made the remarks in Rio de Janeiro after media watchdog Reporters […]
New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms in gun buy-back scheme
New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms to be surrendered in a guns buy-back scheme after parliament passed tough new firearm laws in the wake of the country’s worst peacetime mass shooting. Lawmakers in New Zealand voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to change gun laws, less than a month after a lone gunman […]