At least five killed in blast, attack near Mogadishu mayor’s office in Somalia

Islamist fighters set off a bomb then stormed a government building in Somalia’s capital on Sunday, killing at least five civilians, the ministry of information said. Attackers from the al Shabaab group charged into the block that houses the office of Mogadishu’s mayor around noon and got caught in a firefight with security forces, the […]

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US: Nine killed, many injured in mass shooting after Lunar New Year celebrations near Los Angeles

At least nine people are reported killed and several others injured in a mass shooting at   Lunar New Year celebrations attended by thousands of people in a city east of Los Angeles late Saturday, police said. The incident took place on Saturday 10 pm (0600 GMT) in Monterey Park, the Los Angeles Times newspaper said. Tens of […]

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US military says strike in Somalia killed at least 30 members of militant group al-Shabaab

The United States military carried out a strike in Somalia and killed at least 30 al-Shabaab fighters, said the US Africa Command in a statement, on Saturday (January 21). The “collective self-defense strike”, as the US military described it, took place in the central Somalian town of Galcad, on Friday, where the East African nation’s […]

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Volodymyr Zelensky honours top Ukrainian officials killed in helicopter crash

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended the funeral of helicopter crash victims on Saturday. The memorial service commemorated seven senior officials killed in a helicopter crash.  The war-torn nation received a fresh blow on Wednesday when the former interior minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy and five other high-ranking officials were killed.  The accident when their French-made […]

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Palestinian killed by Israeli civilian at West Bank farm, claims army

A Palestinian was shot dead by an Israeli civilian at a settler farm on Saturday in the occupied West Bank after an attempted stabbing attack, stated the army reporting the latest incident as violence escalated in the region.  The Israeli military stated that a “terrorist was neutralised” in an “attempted stabbing attack” that took place […]

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Canadian twins who were killed during bank heist had anti-govt views, wanted to killed police officers

The twin brothers who were killed while carrying out a heist at a bank in Canada last year in July had been planning their attack for many years, with the aim to kill as many police officers as possible. Convicts Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie, 22, were killed by the cops after they attempted to rob […]

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Thailand: At least one killed, four injured after explosion on oil tanker ship

At least one person was killed and four others were injured after an explosion on an oil tanker ship took place, on early Tuesday (January 17), in Thailand’s Samut Songkhram province, said officials. As per media reports, several houses were also damaged after the explosion and subsequent fire on the “slick Sea 22”, an oil […]

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Six, including 6-month-old baby and teen mom, killed in apparent drug-related shooting in California

Six people were shot dead by gunmen in a home in California early Monday in what the police has termed a “targeted” attack. The victims included a six-month-old baby and its teen mother, police officials said. Sheriff Mike Boudreaux of the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that the grisly crime seems to be linked […]

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Top 10 world news: All killed in Nepal plane crash, Dnipro attack’s death toll rises, and more

On Monday, the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal confirmed that all the passengers and crew who were on board the ill-fated aircraft, which crashed on Sunday, have been killed. This has been termed the deadliest aviation disaster in the history of the Himalayan nation. unkindwhile, the death toll in a missile strike on […]

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Folk singer Nira Chhantyal among 68 passengers killed in tragic Nepal plane crash

Nepal’s folk singer Nira Chhantyal died along with 67 other passengers in the tragic plane crash that took place near Pokhara International Airport on Sunday.  The sad news of her demise was confirmed by her sister Heera Chantyal Sherchan. Chhantyal was headed to Pokhara to attend an event which was being organised to mark the […]

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