Getty Images Shopkeepers in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, are caught between a rock and a hard place over a government directive to install CCTV cameras outside their businesses to increase surveillance of Islamist insurgents who have a strong presence in the city. The businessmen say that if they install the cameras, they risk being shot by […]
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Getty Images Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna performs all over the world “When you show your identity, you shine all the time,” says Eliana. The 22-year-old Palestinian-Chilean singer already has millions of views on YouTube and a collaboration with Coldplay behind her. This year she is also doing her first European tour and told BBC Newsbeat that
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A Philippine woman who spent nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia and was nearly executed by firing squad is coming home. Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death in 2010 after she was found transporting 2.6 kg (5.7 lb) of heroin through an Indonesian airport. But the 39-year-old mother-of-two has always maintained she
Police say a “combination of factors” appears to be the motive behind the shooting that left two people dead, along with the suspect, at a private school in Wisconsin. Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes did not provide details Tuesday about what is believed to have led a 15-year-old girl, identified by authorities as Natalie Rupnow,
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Getty Images White Helmet teams have recovered human remains from a mass grave near the Baghdad Bridge, near Adra Less than 10 kilometers (six miles) from the bustling center of Damascus, in the northwestern suburb of Adra, a dry patch of land is isolated by cement walls. As you enter, a team of rescuers from
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium against subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing it of using conflict minerals. Acting on behalf of the Congolese government, the lawyers allege that Apple is complicit in crimes committed by armed groups that control some of the mines in eastern DR Congo.
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Getty Images Luigi Mangione has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the New York district attorney announced Tuesday. Mr. Mangione faces a variety of charges, including first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder, one of which describes the killing as an act of “terrorism,” Bragg said. “The
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The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow: ‘Explosion kills senior Russian general’ A senior general in the Russian armed forces and his aide have been killed in Moscow by Ukraine’s security services, a Ukrainian source told the BBC. Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, head of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces (NBC), was outside an
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