At least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, were shot when a gunman unleashed a flurry of bullets in the US capital Friday. The shooting led to lockdowns at several schools and left a community on edge before the suspect was found dead hours later, local US media said. The …

At least six people were killed and more than seven others wounded after a heavy explosion targeted a restaurant in Mogadishu’s Lido Beach on Friday evening, a police officer said. Abdi Mohamud, a police officer in Mogadishu’s Abdiasis district, told Anadolu Agency over the phone that they believe that the …

On Friday, the Military Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense thwarted an attack on a security point west of Nineveh and arrested three “terrorists” in Al-Anbar. The Security Media Cell said that a joint force of military intelligence and ground forces arrested three terrorists in Al-Qaim and Al-Fallujah. Other …

Move comes after Israeli army accused Hamas of firing three rockets into Israel late on Friday. Israel’s decision to close its only crossing for Palestinian workers coming from the Gaza Strip has been denounced as “collective punishment” of the impoverished territory’s two million residents who have lived under an Israeli-Egyptian …

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport urged travelers on Saturday to stay away as a strike by ground personnel at the start of a school holiday caused chaos at Europe’s third-busiest airport. “The terminal is too full at the moment… Schiphol is calling on travelers to not come to the airport anymore,” airport …

A person set themselves on fire outside the US Supreme Court on Friday, a spokeswoman said – the second incident to raise alarm near the Capitol in Washington in a week. “At approximately 6:30 p.m., an individual went onto the plaza in front of the Supreme Court building and set …

Ten people were missing Saturday after an accident at a coal mine in southern Poland, the pit owner said, the second such incident to strike in just days. “Rescuers are without contact with 10 people,” at the mine in Zofiowka, the JSW company said in a statement. A tremor shook …

Pakistan’s prime minister said Saturday he will chair an emergency meeting of a national task force for polio eradication after authorities detected the country’s first case of the debilitating neurodegenerative disease in 15 months. Health officials announced the discovery of the wild polio case on Friday, saying a 15-month-old boy …

The major financial hub of Shanghai reported 12 new COVID-19-related deaths on April 22, up from 11 the previous day, as frustrations among residents continued to boil over amid a harsh lockdown and strict censorship online. The city, battling China’s biggest coronavirus outbreak so far, recorded 20,634 new local asymptomatic …

Authorities in two eastern Ukrainian regions said Saturday that fighting with Russian forces was “fierce,” as hope fades for a truce over Orthodox Easter weekend. The governor of the eastern Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, said on Telegram that Kyiv retook three villages near the Russian border after “fierce battles.” “Our …

Japan’s coast guard says a tour boat with 26 people aboard has been missing for more than seven hours after issuing a distress call and taking in water. The coast guard said Saturday no survivors have been found so far. It says the 19-ton Kazu 1 made an emergency call …

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) thwarted an ISIS attack west of Kirkuk. The PMF said in a statement that ISIS terrorists attacked the PMF’s patrol near the Rubaida area, al-Rashad district before the force responded and forced them to flee.

An explosion struck a mosque in northern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, police said, with eyewitnesses reporting dozens of casualties. The blast hit Mawlavi Sikandar mosque north of Kunduz city, provincial police spokesman Obaidullah Abedi told AFP. “At the moment we have no details about the type of the blast or …

Kiev’s statements show it does not need negotiations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Moscow has not received any answers from Kiev to its proposals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday, adding that Kiev’s position looks as if Ukraine does not need the peace talks at all. …

Whether Macron or Le Pen ultimately emerges victorious, Islamophobic persecution is bound to intensify French President Emmanuel Macron and his challenger, Marine Le Pen, have qualified for the final round of the election, echoing their 2017 duel. French Muslims, many of whom had backed the defeated left-wing candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, …

Two far-leftist groups with alleged links to the Kurdish militant group PKK carried out two bombings in Turkey this week, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Friday. A prison guard was killed in an explosion that hit a bus in Turkey’s northwestern province of Bursa on Wednesday. A day later, …

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev called on Friday for negotiations to take place soon on a peace treaty with Armenia, but said Yerevan would need to renounce any territorial claim against his country, the Interfax news agency reported. Aliyev said the two former Soviet republics, which fought their last major war …

A blast from a roadside bomb reportedly hit a convoy of the US-led Global coalition in Baghdad, on Thursday. A source said that the explosion targeted a supply convoy of the Coalition within the governorate’s southern borders. The attack resulted in no human casualties and the convoy resumed its march …

A Somali man went on trial on Friday over the killing of three people and injuring of several others in a stabbing attack in southern Germany last June in proceedings to determine whether he should be held in a closed psychiatric facility. Investigators believe the man was mentally ill at …

Brussels is weighing options after the total oil and gas embargo was met with strong resistance The European Union has failed to reach a consensus on a full ban on Russian oil and gas imports but says that an agreement will be reached in the coming weeks. Member states are …