(VIDEO): Major earthquake in central Italy leaves at least 21 killed, 100 missing
A major earthquake that hit mountainous central Italy today has left at least 21 people killed, while 100 are missing, local media reported. The 6.0 magnitude quake struck in the early hours of Wednesday devastating a number of mountainous towns and villages. Earlier today, Italian news agency Ansa reported eleven people had been killed in the mountainous area of northern Lazio: six in Amatrice and a further five in Accumoli. A...
Civilian killed in shelling of Donetsk suburbs
A civilian was killed in Donetsk during shelling from positions of the Ukrainian military, a source at the defense authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) told the Donetsk News Agency today. “During the night shelling of the Petrov district, a man born in 1938 was killed,” the source said, adding that “Information on consequences from the night shelling is being verified now.” Members...
Syrian child actor who rose to fame killed in city of Aleppo
The sit-com is a little like “I Love Lucy,” starring a comic housewife who gets into shenanigans and bickers with her husband. Except children play all the roles. And it all takes place in one of the historic stone houses in the old city of Aleppo, besieged by government forces in one of the worst battlegrounds of Syria’s civil war. “Um Abdou the Aleppan” is a small curiosity of the 5-year-old war, the...
Afghan ministry: 1 policeman killed in Kabul hotel attack
A group of militants, including a suicide truck bomber, targeted a Kabul guesthouse for foreign contractors early on Monday, killing one policeman and wounding four, Afghan authorities said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The Interior Ministry said “terrorists” used a truck full of explosives to breach the perimeter wall of the Northgate Hotel around 1:30 a.m. Three gunmen then entered the premises and...
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