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Pope
Francis: "How many Christians, how many more innocent people, how many
more children will die?" (Credit: www.bbc.com)
Pope Francis has warned that a recent
wave of jihadist attacks in Europe is proof that "the world is at
war".
However, he
stressed he did not mean a war of religions, but rather a conflict over
"interests, money, resources".
He was
speaking ahead of his visit to Poland to reporters seeking his comments on the
murder of a Catholic priest by French jihadists on Tuesday.
Father
Jacques Hamel was killed at a morning mass in his church in
Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, northern France.
The killing
was the latest of a spate of attacks carried out in France and Germany over the
past few days and weeks, many of them attributed to Islamist militants.
"The
word we hear a lot is insecurity, but the real word is war," the pontiff
said.
"We
must not be afraid to say the truth, the world is at war because it has lost
peace.
"When I
speak of war I speak of wars over interests, money, resources, not religion.
All religions want peace, it's the others who want war," Pope Francis
added. Read more >>
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Pope Francis warns world 'is at war' after Europe attacks
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Germany Blast
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Armed police
have sealed off the centre of Ansbach (Credit: www.bbc.com)
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Germany blast: Syrian migrant 'behind Ansbach explosion'
A failed asylum seeker from Syria killed himself and injured
12 other people after setting off a bomb near an open-air music festival in the
German city of Ansbach, officials say.
Bavaria's interior minister said the 27-year-old man
detonated a backpack device after being refused entry to the festival in the
southern city.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the
explosion.
It is the third attack in the state of Bavaria in a week.
A shooting rampage in Munich on Friday left nine dead while
an axe-wielding teenager was shot dead after injuring four people on a train a
week ago in Wuerzburg. (read more >>)
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Three US police officers shot dead
Baton Rouge: Three US police officers
shot dead
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| Credit: www.bbc.com |
Three police officers have been killed and three injured in a shooting in the southern US city of Baton Rouge.
A suspect
shot dead at the scene was thought to be the only gunman involved, police said.
Reports earlier suggested there was more than one gunman.
President
Barack Obama said nothing justified attacks on police officers.
It is not
clear what the motive is, or whether there is any link to the killing by police
of a black man in the city nearly two weeks ago.
The shooting
of Alton Sterling and another killing of a black man in Minnesota, led to
widespread protests across the US.
It also
triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five
officers in the city of Dallas.
Law
enforcement officers have converged on a house in Kansas City, Missouri, that
is listed for a man named Gavin Long - the man US media named earlier as the
suspect in Sunday's Baton Rouge shootings. Read More >>
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36820782
Friday, July 15, 2016
France Says Truck Attacker Was Tunisia Native With Record of Petty Crime
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NICE, France — French officials on Friday identified the man
who used a 19-ton truck to massacre dozens of people on the French Riviera as a
31-year-old native of Tunisia with a history of petty crime and marriage
problems — but no links with the militant extremists who have targeted and
traumatized France.
The rampage Thursday night at a packed Bastille Day
fireworks celebration in the southeastern city of Nice, which unfolded as the
assailant used the rented refrigerated truck as a battering ram, was all the
more unnerving because it came as a total surprise despite extensive security
precautions, French officials acknowledged.
Nearly 24 hours later there was no claim of responsibility,
and the Paris prosecutor, François Molins, said the killer, whom he identified
as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, had been “completely unknown by intelligence
services.”
Mr. Molins said the toll rose on Friday to 84 dead and 202
injured. At least 10 of the dead were children or teenagers, enjoying a
fireworks display one moment and crushed to death the next. Read more >>
Monday, July 11, 2016
Dallas shooter Micah Johnson wanted to be a POLICE OFFICER, according to his mother
By CHARLIEBAYLISS
Delphine
Johnson said her son became "gung-ho" and joined the Army after he
graduated from high school, but returned to the US disillusioned after his tour
in Afghanistan.
The
despondent mother said Johnson turned into a "hermit" following
nearly six years of military service, which included a seven-month spell in
Afghanistan.
She added:
"He was a good son. But the military was not what Micah thought it would
be. He was very disappointed, very disappointed.
"It may
be that the ideal that he thought of our government, what he thought the
military represented, it just didn’t live up to his expectations."
Johnson's
parents divorced when he was just four years old, but appeared united following
the death of their son. (Read more >>)
Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/688492/Dallas-shooter-wanted-to-be-police-officers-says-mum
Friday, July 8, 2016
Dallas police shooting: Five officers killed, seven wounded by gunmen
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Five Dallas
police officers have been killed and seven wounded by gunmen during protests
against the shooting of black men by police, authorities say.
Three people
are in custody and one man who was in a stand-off with police shot himself
dead, US media said.
Gunfire
broke out at around 20:45 local time on Thursday (01:45 GMT Friday) as
demonstrators marched through the city.
The protests
came after this week's deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton
Sterling in Louisiana.
The Dallas
attack marks the deadliest day for US law enforcement officers since the 9/11
attacks in 2001.
President
Barack Obama, who is visiting Poland, said it was a "vicious, calculated
and despicable attack on law enforcement". He said the entire city of
Dallas was grieving and the "tight-knit US police community feels this
loss to their core". Read more>>
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