Terrorism: Gunman kills 26 Church goers in USA

In an act of sheer terrorism, a gunman in Texas, USA has killed at least 26 Church goers while another 24 are being treated for gun injuries. The dead also included pastor's 14 years old daughter.

Reportedly, 26 years old ex US air force Devin Patrick Kelley, wearing black tactical gear and carrying a Ar-15 assault rifle, walked into the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas and sprayed bullets on the attendees.

Kelley who drove away after the incident was chased by a local and eventually lost control of his car during the high speed chase and was shot dead by the unnamed local.

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Gunman kill dozens in Las Vegas

In a bizarre incident, a lone gunman killed dozens while injuring over 100 in Las Vegas. Later the gunman was pronounced dead by Las Vegas police in his hotel room.

Identified as Stephen Paddock, the gunman fired indiscriminately from the 39th floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Most of the victims were in audience of a musical show down below gunman's hotel balcony.

In all at least 58 people have been reported killed and over 500 injured - both from bullet wounds and stampede. The number of victims killed during this massacre now surpasses the 49 murdered in the June 2016 

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San Bernardino gunman and female accomplice dead after killing 14

A hot argument leaves 14 dead in San Bernardino, followed by killing of the gunman and female accomplice by the police, as seen in photo above.

Rampage reportedly sparked after gunman had an argument at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center who left the scene and came back heavily armed to kill at least 14. It is not known if he left of his own accord or was kicked out, but sources say he returned heavily armed.

It is also reported that the suspects were dressed in 'assault-style' clothing and carrying assault rifles and handguns. He said a third person was seeing running from the scene, who has now been detained. He added that it is not known if the person is connected to the shooting.

Read more about it at: Daily Mail
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37 holidaying tourists killed by gunman in Tunisia

In a horrible killing incident, a gunman killed 37 holidaying tourists in Tunisia, leaving another 36 seriously injured. The gory incident occurred on the beach resort of Sousse.

It has been reported that the killer was carefully selecting the victims he would murder with the Kalashnikov hidden in his parasol.

And before killing the tourists, 'He was laughing and joking around, like a normal guy,' said one witness. 'He was choosing who to shoot. Some people, he was saying to them 'you go away'. He was choosing tourists, British, French.' 

The killer as later killed by the police.

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Group of 180 Iraqis to accuse the UK of torture and sexual abuse over five years

A group of 180 Iraqis will accuse Britain next week for breaching international law by torturing and killing prisoners during the occupation of Iraq over five years.

Lawyers representing the group - who claim they are victims of abuse or their family members were unlawfully killed - will accuse the UK of a 'systemic' policy of abuse committed between 2003 and 2008.

Lawyers acting for the group will place a file of statements before two judges which details alleged use of 'stress positions' and  hooding as well as beating, sexual abuse and religious abuse of illegally detained prisoners.

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Some of the claims made in the statements are incredibly shocking with sexual depravity and insults to Islam featuring strongly.

In one case, a soldier is alleged to have masturbated over a prisoner while another is alleged to have committed sodomy with his finger. The High Court will also be told how female interrogators stripped and feigned seduction in exchange for information from prisoners.

Read more about it at: Mail Online
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Egypt army vows to avenge deadly Sinai attack

The Egyptian army vowed Monday to "avenge" the killing of 16 guards by gunmen near the Israeli border, as President Mohammed Mursi ordered security forces to take full control of the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula on the frontier.

In Sunday's attack, gunmen in Bedouin attire drove up to a border post and opened fire before crossing into the Jewish state in an armored vehicle, Egyptian officials said. Israel said five gunmen were killed on its side.

The 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, under which Israel withdrew from the Sinai, which it had occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, set strict limits on Egyptian troop numbers in the peninsula.

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Rohingya Muslims "persecuted" after Myanmar crackdown

Myanmar security forces killed, raped or carried out mass arrests of Rohingya Muslims after deadly sectarian riots in the northeast in June, a rights group said on Wednesday, adding the authorities had done little to prevent the initial unrest.

Aid workers were blocked and in some cases arrested, and Rohingyas bore the brunt of a government crackdown in Rakhine state after a week of arson and machete attack by both ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingyas, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report.

Based on 57 interviews with Rakhines and Rohingyas, the report seeks to shed light on a conflict that exposed deep-rooted communal animosity and put the spotlight on promises by the civilian government in office since 2011 to protect human rights after decades of brutal army rule.

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US 'shooter' faces 142 charges

Colorado prosecutors charged James Holmes on Monday with 140 counts of murder or attempted murder, including 12 of first-degree murder for each fatality in the Aurora cinema shooting.

Holmes (24) was also slapped with one count of possession of an explosive device, and one sentence enhancement count.

Twelve people were killed and 58 were wounded after a gunman burst into a sold-out midnight viewing of the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, and began shooting people at random.

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Pakistan decries Myanmar Genocide

Pakistan has expressed concern over the recent ethnic violence in Myanmar, where dozens of Muslims – have been killed.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Moazzam Ali Khan, during the weekly news briefing on Thursday said: “We are concerned about the situation but there are reports that things have improved there.”

The spokesman hoped that the authorities in Myanmar would take necessary steps to control the situation.

Recent clashes in western Myanmar between Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya have left dozens dead and tens of thousands homeless. Last week, Amnesty International said hundreds of people, mostly men and boys, have been detained in sweeps of areas heavily populated by the Rohingya.

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Dozens Killed and Wounded in Pakistan Bombing

It was sad and gruesome day in the northern Pakistan when a bomb planted in a pickup truck killed at least 26 people at a market Saturday and wounded 65.

The target in the town of Landi Kotal appeared to be a tribal leader allied with the government against the Pakistani Taliban Hospital officials said 65 people were wounded, most of them fruit and vegetable vendors.

Several houses and shops were damaged in a fire triggered by the blast, the report said. A local television channel quoted witnesses as saying the bomb exploded in a pickup vehicle parked near a bakery.

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French Defense Minister in Afghanistan After Troops Killed

France's Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Afghanistan Sunday, one day after a Taliban attack killed four French NATO troops and wounded five others.

Details of Drian's program in Afghanistan have not been released but he is expected to address French troops and meet Afghan government officials in Kabul.

On Saturday, French troops responding to a tip that a bomb had been planted under a bridge in eastern Kapisa province were attacked by a suicide bomber disguised as a woman, who walked up to the soldiers and blew himself up.

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Mafia accused of Italian school bombing

A shadowy Mafia organisation is suspected of a bombing that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured up to 10 other students in the southern Italian city of Brindisi on Saturday.

Police and paramilitary Carabinieri were raiding the homes of suspected mafiosi belonging to a crime group known as the Sacra Corona Unita, or United Sacred Crown, and checking their whereabouts prior to the attack.

Two gas canisters equipped with a timer device exploded outside the Morvillo-Falcone vocational institute, which is named after an anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone, and his wife, Francesca Morvillo, a judge, who were blown up by Sicily's Cosa Nostra Mafia almost exactly 20 years near Palermo airport.

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US soldier shoots Afghan children dead

Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk.

Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire.

One Haji Samad lamented: "I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren." 

Read details of the gory incident: Huffington Post

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