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Hezbollah's spokesman killed in rare Israeli strike on central Beirut, official says
BEIRUT (AP) — A rare Israeli airstrike on central Beirut killed Hezbollah's chief spokesman on Sunday, an official with the militant group said. Earlier, Israeli strikes killed at least 12 people in the Gaza Strip, officials said, where Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Hamas for over a...
Brazil authorities link bombing in the capital to extremist discourse
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice said Thursday that he believes the explosion outside the court in capital Brasilia was the consequence of frequent far-right attacks and hate speech targeting the country’s institutions. “It grew under the guise of a criminal...
Museum finds remains from a victim of a notorious 1980s Philadelphia police bombing
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Additional human remains from a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a Black liberation group in Philadelphia have been found at the University of Pennsylvania. The remains are believed to be those of 12-year-old Delisha Africa, one of five children and...
7 people are killed in Pakistan when a militant's car bomb accidentally explodes
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful car bomb accidentally detonated at the house of a Pakistani Taliban militant in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two children and five suspected militants, police said. The explosion took place before dawn in the city of Mir...
Mastermind of foiled Hong Kong bomb plot to target police is jailed for nearly 24 years
HONG KONG (AP) — The mastermind behind a foiled bomb plot during anti-government protests in Hong Kong in 2019 has been jailed for nearly 24 years in the city's first case brought under a United Nations anti-terrorism law. Ng Chi-hung, who had previously pleaded guilty to...
Liberals pressure Senate Democrats to confirm more Biden judges while they can
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demand Justice, a progressive organization focused on the judiciary, is set to bombard Capitol Hill with a message for the closing weeks of the 118th Congress: Do “whatever it takes” to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees as a second Donald Trump presidency looms. ...
California teen pleads guilty in Florida to making hundreds of 'swatting' calls across the US
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A California teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case involving the swatting of a Florida mosque among other institutions and individuals, federal prosecutors said. Alan W. Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California, entered the plea to four counts of making...
Pakistan suspends railway services in the country's southwest after deadly train station bombing
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's railways suspended all train services on Monday to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff. The train services would be suspended...
A powerful suicide bombing at a rail station in southwestern Pakistan kills at least 26
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff, and wounding about 62 others, some critically, officials said. The attack happened when nearly...
Army says the US will restart domestic TNT production at plant to be built in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Army awarded a $435 million contract on Friday to build a TNT production plant in western Kentucky that will become the first domestic source for the explosive material in decades, officials said. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a key player...
