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Today in History: December 21, Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie
Today is Saturday, Dec. 21, the 356th day of 2024. There are 10 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 21, 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the...
An Uzbek man is charged in Moscow with killing a Russian general in a bombing claimed by Ukraine
An Uzbek citizen accused of acting on behalf of Ukraine has been charged by Russian authorities with this week's assassination of a senior Russian general and his assistant in a bombing claimed by Ukraine's security services, state media said Thursday. Akhmadzhon Kurbonov was ordered...
US repatriates 3 Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one held 17 years without charge
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has transferred two Malaysian detainees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military prison to their home country, after they pleaded guilty to charges related to deadly 2002 bombings in Bali and agreed to testify against the alleged ringleader of that and other attacks, the...
Michigan man pleads guilty to federal hate crime following mass killing plot targeting gay people
A 22-year-old man has admitted to a plot intended to kill multiple people at a political party headquarters in Michigan and at a nearby bar because he associated both places with gay people. Mack Davis pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Flint to committing a hate crime by...
What's known about the brazen bombing that killed a top Russian general in Moscow
The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his apartment building in Moscow was the boldest assassination yet of a top military officer and again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the capital. Some things to know about the attack and who is suspected of...
Russia says it has detained a suspect in the Moscow bombing that killed a senior general
Russia's security service said Wednesday it detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his southeastern Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine's security service. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday...
A top Russian general is killed in a Moscow bombing claimed by Ukraine
A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the...
Roadside bomb kills 3 police officers escorting polio workers in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing three officers and wounding two others, police said. The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan...
The killing of a Russian general is one of several that Moscow blames on Ukraine
Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, in a bombing Tuesday in Moscow. Kirillov, 54, was killed alongside his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, when...
Pope in autobiography reveals an apparent bombing plot during his 2021 visit to Iraq
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned to attack him during his 2021 visit to Iraq, but were killed before striking. ...
