Seventeen people were injured in a knife and arson attack on a train in Tokyo on Sunday night, according to the police. The arrested suspect told investigators that he adored Batman villain character the Joker, local media reported Monday. Kyota Hattori, 24 years old, arrested at the scene on...
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Security forces in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional state have “neutralized” 170 suspected Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebels, state media outlet Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported on Sunday. ENA reported that 170 suspected rebels were “neutralized” during military operations conducted in the last three months in the Guji zone of the...
At least 25 bank robbery suspects were killed on Sunday in two clashes with Brazilian authorities in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, police said. The events occurred in the municipality of Varginha during a joint operation by the Military Police, the Federal Highway Police, and the Minas Gerais...
Five police officers were killed Sunday morning in an attack by unidentified armed men on a police station in Sourou province in northwestern Burkina Faso’s Boucle du Mouhoun region. According to the national news agency AIB, the attack took place between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. local time. A...
The 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26), delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. As the first conference after the five-year review cycle under the Paris Agreement inked in 2015, delegates are expected to review overall...
Tanzanian authorities has announced a one-month countrywide special operation aimed at recovering illegal arms owned by unauthorized individuals. The Minister for Home Affairs, George Simbachawene, who announced the operation on Saturday in the capital Dodona, said the operation will start on Nov. 1 through Nov. 30. “Those who will...
Seven Malian soldiers were killed and three wounded in two terrorist attacks in western and central Mali, said the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) on its official website. An army escort was ambushed near the town of Mourdiah in western Mali around Saturday noon, resulting in two deaths and two...
Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan on Saturday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup. In Khartoum, security forces used tear gas and gunfire to try to disperse a huge...
At least eight people have died of suspected yellow fever infection in northern Savannah Region of Ghana, a statement from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said late on Friday. It said the victims, all nomads in the region, had never been vaccinated against yellow fever. “The disease is presumed...