Bomb Attack Targets Police Vehicle in Istanbul; 5 Wounded
Istanbul (AP) -- A bomb attack in Istanbul on Tuesday targeted a vehicle carrying riot police, Turkish state media reports said. The explosion wounded at least five people, the private Dogan News Agency reported. The blast occurred at a busy intersection near an Istanbul University building in the city's Beyazit district during the morning rush hour. The state-run Anadolu Agency said several ambulances were sent to the scene. Nearby buildings and some vehicles were damaged, Anadolu reported. Th..>> view originalWhat Is Ramadan? Six Things to Know About the Muslim Holy Month
Millions of Muslims around the world on Monday marked the start of Ramadan, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. Others will begin fasting a day later, Tuesday, due to a moon-sighting methodology that can lead to different countries declaring the start of Ramadan a day or two apart. Here are some questions and answers about Islam's holiest month: Why Do Muslims Fast? The fast is intended to bring the faithful closer to God and to remind them of the sufferin..>> view originalFalluja's children face aftermath of their escape from ISIS
I've been in plenty of refugee and IDP (internally displaced person) camps, where children thrill, become downright giddy, at the presence of a camera crew. They laugh, they chatter, they run around you, they jump and wave and goof off in front of the camera. In this dusty camp at the edge of Abu Ghraib, a Baghdad suburb, many of the older children seemed lethargic, almost indifferent to our presence. They are children from the approximately 350 families staying in the Ahal Camp, housed in rows ..>> view originalBuzzFeed Calls Off Ad Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump
Updated June 6, 2016 10:49 p.m. ET BuzzFeed has canceled an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee because of the tone and substance of presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, BuzzFeed Chief Executive Jonah Peretti said on Monday. In a memo to staffers at the digital media company, Mr. Peretti said Mr. Trump’s campaign “is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and in some cases, such as his proposed ban ..>> view originalAbandoned Japanese boy: Seven-year-old Yamato Tanooka 'forgives father'
Image copyright Associated Press Image caption Yamato was found in relatively good health and left hospital on Tuesday A Japanese boy who was lost for six days in dense forests after his parents left him behind has been discharged from hospital.Takayuki Tanooka, 44, and his wife briefly left Yamato Tanooka by the side of the road on the northern island of Hokkaido on 28 May as punishment.When they came back he was gone. A huge search was launched and ..>> view originalBuilding Brexit Pressures Skip Biggest Victims in Eastern Europe
As poll after poll shows a rising tide of support for Britain to leave the European Union, you wouldn’t know it by looking at the currencies of the most vulnerable countries in Eastern Europe.Poland’s zloty and Hungary’s forint were among the top gainers of emerging currencies against the euro in the past week, even though the countries stand to lose billions of euros of aid if the Leave campaign succeeds on June 23, as three surveys published on Monday suggest it would. Many investors are skep..>> view originalBritish pedophile Richard Huckle gets 22 life sentences
Richard Huckle, 30, was arrested at Gatwick Airport near London in 2014 as he returned home from Malaysia, where he committed most of his crimes, Britain's National Crime Agency said.According to Court News UK, Huckle posed as a Christian English teacher to groom and abuse children, including one as young a 6 months, in a poor Malaysian community over nine years.He also committed child abuse in Cambodia, the National Crime Agency said. British law allows nationals to be prosecuted in their home ..>> view originalNorth Korea May Have Started Producing Plutonium Again, Says Watchdog
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes that North Korea has reactivated a processing plant producing material that could be used to make a nuclear weapon. The director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, raised concerns about the resumption of activities at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which Pyongyang said in 2013 it would restart, reports Reuters. A test of what was believed to be a nuclear weapon in January drew international condemnation, including tougher s..>> view originalFrenchman 'planned attacks during Euro 2016' - Ukraine's SBU
Media captionThe haul is said to contain guns, detonators and 125kg of TNT A Frenchman detained last month with a large cache of arms was planning mass attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday, Ukrainian officials say. The man, identified by French media as Gregoire Moutaux, 25, was arrested on the Ukrainian border with Poland.Intelligence chief Vasyl Hrytsak said the man had planned 15 attacks and was driven by ultra-nationalist views. He had amassed guns, d..>> view original
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