Air Strike Reportedly Kills 57 In Rebel-Held Town As U.S. Envoy Visits Damascus

The strikes, identified as Russian by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, occurred as a U.N. envoy visited Damascus. BEIRUT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - An air strike reportedly killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday as a U.N. envoy visited Damascus to advance preparations for peace talks planned this month despite opposition misgivings. Agreement was also reached for aid to be delivered on Monday to an opposition-held...

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Kosovo Protesters Set Fire To Government HQ

Police used tear gas to drive back several thousand anti-government demonstrators. PRISTINA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Demonstrators in Kosovo fought running battles with police and briefly set fire to government headquarters on Saturday in the latest violence in the young Balkan country over an accord with its former ruler Serbia. The seat of government in the capital Pristina caught fire after it came under a hail of petrol bombs. Firefighters...

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Turkish forces kill 32 Kurdish rebels in southeast

A group of street artists lie on a sign reading "To get Peace, stop the War! Make noise for Peace!" during a demonstration on January 10, 2016 in Istanbul, after Turkish security forces killed 18 militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) (AFP Photo/Ozan...

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16 injured, mostly kids, in Bangkok shopping mall accident

BANGKOK (AP) — Sixteen people were injured, most of them children, at one of Bangkok's upscale shopping malls Saturday when a tent at an outdoor event came crashing down on them, officials said. The accident at Siam Paragon shopping mall appeared to have been caused by strong winds that caused the tent to collapse, said Lt. Gen. Sanit Mahathaworn, Bangkok's acting police chief. "Strong wind caused the tent to fly up, about one meter. Then wooden signs attached to the back of the tent flew off and injured nearby people," he said. Among ...

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Toll in Russia raids on Qaeda-run Syria jail rises to 81: monitor

A large explosion, allegedly caused by rebel fighters, hits a Syrian army military outpost in Maarat al-Numan on October 14, 2014 (AFP Photo/Ghaith Omran)   Beirut (AFP) - At least 81 people, including 23 Al-Qaeda fighters, were killed in Russian strikes on a prison...

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Mountain Lion Found With Teeth Growing Out Of Its Head

A hunter tracking an aggressive mountain lion made a startling discovery when the cat's body turned up with an extra set of teeth on top of its head, wildlife officials said. A photo of the deformed male juvenile, bagged outside Preston, Idaho, was released Thursday by the state’s Fish and Game department.  "The mountain lion had an unusual deformity -- fully-formed teeth and what appears to be small whiskers were growing...

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Boyfriend held in Ghana over British actress's murder

Arthur Simpson-Kent, boyfriend of former British soap actress Sian Blake, in Accra on January 10, 2016, after he was arrested on January 9 in Ghana over the murder of the actress and their two young sons (AFP Photo/Nana Boakye Tiadom)   Accra (AFP)...

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Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney Had Sex on a Canvas for V Magazine and Also ‘For Peace’

  Lady Gaga had sex on a canvas splattered with paint with Taylor Kinney for the cover of V Magazine for peace, which is pretty cool, though honestly how much of an excuse do you need to do any of that? In a photo posted to Twitter, Gaga shared her (or rather...

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Woman raped by five men in New York City park, police say

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five men took turns raping a woman in a Brooklyn park after forcing her father at gunpoint to flee the scene, New York City police said. The 18-year-old woman was with her father in a park just after 9 p.m. on Thursday night when five men approached them, police said. One pointed a gun at the father and told him to leave. After the father left, the men each assaulted the woman, police said. They fled when her father returned a short while later to the park, accompanied by two officers. The woman, whose name...

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4 police, 2 soldiers, 6 militants killed in Bayelsa supplementary election

There were several cases of violence, ballot snatching, and voting disruption during the Bayelsa supplementary elections of Saturday, most especially in the Southern Ijaw LGA. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had scheduled the supplementary poll for January 9, after the December 5, 2015 gubernatorial election in the state failed to produce a winner between Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress and Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party.  Over 12 people were reportedly killed across the local...

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Tension rises as residents clash with members of strange sect in Osun

Residents of Kelebe Community in Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun State on Sunday clashed with members of a sect whose religion is considered strange by the people. Our correspondent gathered that members of the community, armed with placards with various inscription stormed the worship centre of the sect recently built in the area and asked them to relocate.  The sect known as Toriqat Satia Organisation is said to combine...

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Tragedy struck as gunmen kill police corporal, friend in Lagos

Gunmen on Sunday shot dead a police corporal, David Sunday, and his friend, identified as Taiwo Balogun, in the Agege area of Lagos.  Our correspondent learnt that the policeman, who is attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, was driving in his car with Balogun at about 2pm, when the duo were attacked and shot by the assailants. It was gathered that another occupant of the car, identified as Raheem Suleiman, was injured by the gunshots, but survived and was receiving treatment in a general hospital. Our correspondent...

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Shittes, rival Muslim youths clash in Jos

Shitte members and rival Muslim youths have clashed in Jos leaving one person dead. The Shitte members were said to be protesting the continued  detention of their leader El-Zakzaky, his wife and some other members before the incident. Media and Communications Officer of the Special Task Force, also known as ‘Operation Safe Haven’, Capt. Ikedichi Iweha, while confirming the incident to our correspondent in an interview on  Sunday...

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24 soldiers cry out to Buratai over dismissal

A group of soldiers numbering 24 who were recently dismissed from the service in December 2015, have cried out to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, for intervention. The soldiers who belong to the 118 Task Force are alleging that they were wrongfully dismissed from the Army by their commanding Officer, a colonel.  Counsel for the soldiers, Mr, Johnson Oyewole, stated that the soldiers were dismissed from service without a board of inquiry by their Commanding Officer for allegedly staying away from duty without orders,...

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Indian teen gang-raped, shot, dumped in well

An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi. The victim, reportedly aged 14, was allegedly abducted on November 22 while walking to a market in western Delhi, in the latest case of sexual violence in the Indian capital.  Speaking of her ordeal to the NDTV news network, the...

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Killing Boko Haram is not sin against God – Cleric

Killing of a member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on a battleground is not a sin against God, the Chaplain of Maimalari Cantonment, Lt. Col. Cosmas Nwankpa said on Sunday. Nwankpa, a Catholic Reverend Father, while delivering a sermon with the theme: “Our Fallen Heroes” at an inter-denominational service in Maiduguri to mark this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day, said the instruction in one of the ten commandment that ‘thou shall not...

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Six feared killed as Dickson’s victory party turns bloody

The victory celebration by supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Governor  Seriake Dickson, has turned bloody with six persons feared killed. The six persons were reportedly shot dead in a post-election gun battle between supporters of two political parties in Peremabiri community of Southern Ijaw area of the state.  Spokesman for the State Police Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed that the police had...

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Tragedy struck as 75-year-old man burnt to death in Osun

Residents of Isale- Aro area of Osogbo, capital of Osun State, watched helplessly as a 75-year-old man, Lamina Ishola, was burnt to death. An eyewitness told our correspondent that the neighbourhood had noticed thick flame coming out of one of the rooms in the mud house where Ishola lived at about 9pm on the fateful day.  He explained that some residents of the area had made frantic effort to put out the inferno before fire fighters arrived the scene. But Ishola, a father of two- a ten-year-old and a girl, aged 7-was unlucky...

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Victims of the Bayelsa gov rerun election

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has expressed his fears over the election violence recorded at Southern Ijaw in Bayelsa state during the governorship rerun election which took place yesterday January 9th. See his tweets and more pics after the cut..    ...

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