Month: December 2019

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas border and staged an hour-long attack, officials said, bringing the death toll to at least 21. The Coahuila state government said in a statement that lawmen were still…

An Australian lecturer held hostage by the Taliban has said some of his guards were “lovely people” as he disclosed American special forces launched six unsuccessful rescue bids to free him. Timothy Weeks spent more than three years locked up, often in the dark and underground, after he and his colleague Kevin King were seized in…

When Utah Gov. Gary Herbert proposed a new rule banning licensed therapists from practicing LGBTQ conversion therapy on minors this week, it was supported not only by LGBTQ advocates, but also the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The support of the LDS church, formerly known as the Mormon church, didn’t come easily.…

The phrase “OK boomer” has become a catch-all put-down that Generation Zers and young millennials have been using to dismiss retrograde arguments made by baby boomers, the generation of Americans who are currently 55 to 73 years old. Though it originated online and primarily is fueling memes, Twitter feuds and a flurry of commentary, it…

Click:electric passenger tricycle wholesaler Usman Khan, the 28-year-old terrorist who stabbed two people to death on London Bridge, was a teenager when he was first recognised by security services. At age 19 he was the youngest of a group of four men from Stoke-on-Trent who took an active part in their local branch of Al-Muhajiroun…

The way bystanders reacted – so far as it is now known – to today’s events in London Bridge is brave, impressive and laudable. Like those who tried to tackle the attackers in Borough Market before them, the members of the public who jumped a man apparently intent on murdering people at random, undoubtedly saved…

(Bloomberg) — The man suspected of stabbing two people to death near London Bridge had been released early from jail after a terrorism conviction, allowing an attack in the heart of the city that is disrupting the U.K.’s general election campaign two weeks before the vote. Officers shot and killed the 28-year-old attacker, who was…

North Korea called Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an “idiot” and “political dwarf” Saturday in a row over Pyongyang’s latest rocket tests, warning that he “may see what a real ballistic missile is in the not distant future.” The statement from the North Korean foreign ministry followed Pyongyang’s launch of two short-range projectiles into the ocean on Thursday. The test had prompted Abe to…

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In an unexpected move the Ministry of Home Affairs has granted sweeping powers to 10 central agencies to track, monitor and intercept data on every computer in the country. For the first time ever the government has given the power to scan data on a computer — and not just in transit between two computers…