Topic: attack

Iran to finalize its next nuclear step on Sunday - IRNA

Iran to finalize its next nuclear step on Sunday - IRNA

Reuters
Posted at Jan 05 10:03 PM

Iran will decide on Sunday about its next step to further roll back its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying, days after the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. Read more »

Five killed in jihadist attack on Somali hotel

Five killed in jihadist attack on Somali hotel

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 02:44 PM

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Five people including three civilians were killed when jihadist militants stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital, police said Wednesday, adding that all five attackers had also died after an hours-long siege.   Read more »

Pearl Harbor veteran interred on sunken ship

Pearl Harbor veteran interred on sunken ship

Jocelyne Zablit, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 08 02:16 PM

LOS ANGELES, United States – With speeches and salutes, veterans and officials on Saturday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the 1941 sneak attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, which brought a previously reluctant United States into World War II.   Read more »

Japanese doctor, 5 Afghans killed in Kabul attack

Japanese doctor, 5 Afghans killed in Kabul attack

Noorullah Shirzada, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 04 05:05 PM

In 2003, Nakamura, a native of the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, won the Philippines' Ramon Magsaysay Award for peace and international understanding -- often called Asia's Nobel Prize. Read more »

2 killed by knifeman as terror returns to London Bridge

2 killed by knifeman as terror returns to London Bridge

Robin Millard and Charlotte Durand, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 30 07:12 AM

LONDON—A man wearing a suspected hoax explosive device was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge on Friday after what police said was a terrorist stabbing spree, reviving memories of another horrific attack 2 years ago that killed 8.   Read more »

Bangladesh sentences 7 to death for 2016 cafe attack

Bangladesh sentences 7 to death for 2016 cafe attack

Ruma Paulm, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 27 05:04 PM

DHAKA - A Bangladesh court on Wednesday handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation's worst such incident.   Read more »

French city opens famed Christmas market year after attack

French city opens famed Christmas market year after attack

Béatrice Roman-amat, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 23 05:20 AM

STRASBOURG, France—The celebrated Christmas market in France's eastern city of Strasbourg opened for another festive season on Friday, with shopkeepers and visitors vowing not to be cowed by an attack last year by a radical Islamist gunman that killed 5 people. Read more »

Pro-Beijing politician wounded in Hong Kong knife attack

Pro-Beijing politician wounded in Hong Kong knife attack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 06 12:26 PM

HONG KONG, China - A firebrand pro-Beijing politician in Hong Kong was wounded in a knife attack on Wednesday, the latest tit-for-tat political violence to break out in a city engulfed by months of pro-democracy protests.    Read more »

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