Dozens Killed as Thai Passenger Train Hits Fallen Crane
Loading the Audio Player... Dozens of people were killed or injured when a construction crane fell and collided with a moving passenger train in Thailand on Wednesday. Thirty-one ...
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Suicide Bomber Kills 20, Wounds 96 at Mosque in NW Pakistan
Pakistani police have raised the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar to 20 killed. They say as many as 96 worshippers were wounded in Monday’s attack. Saddique Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar who gave the latest casualty tolls, says no one has immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. The Pakistani Taliban have been blamed in similar suicide attacks in the past.
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Blinken Israel Visit Complicated by Jerusalem Terror Attacks, Drone Strike
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Israel today, and his visit is being overshadowed by the worst weekend of terror attacks in Israel in a decade. To complicate the visit further, Israel may have carried out a drone strike near a nuclear facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan Sunday.Over the weekend, Israel's Security Cabinet announced a series of tough new measures against Palestinian terrorists and their supporters. Just as Israelis were eating Friday evening's Sabbath meal, a Palestinian gunman open fire in Jerusalem and killed 7 people, wounding 3 others. The dead ranged in age from 14 to 68, including a couple who tried to help the victims.
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Iran Says Drone Attack Targets Defense Facility in Isfahan
Iran’s Defense Ministry says one of its factories was attacked by drones in the central city of Isfahan. A statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency says the attack occurred late Saturday and caused minor damage to a rooftop. Iran and Israel have long been engaged in a shadow war that has included covert attacks on Iranian military and nuclear facilities. Israel did not acknowledge carrying out the assault. Meanwhile, state media also reported a fire at an oil refinery near the northern Iranian city of Tabriz, saying one person was injured. It blamed the fire on “wear and tear.” A 5.9 magnitude earthquake also struck nearby, killing three people and injuring over 800 others.
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Blinken heads to Israel to promote peace
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Jerusalem on Monday amid heightened tensions between Palestinians and Israel. Last week, Israeli soldiers killed nine Palestinians in a bloody shootou...
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Pastor, 3 other Christians killed by Islamic extremists in pre-dawn attack in Sudan
A church pastor and three other Christians were killed in Sudan on Monday when suspected Islamic extremists shot them to death
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Indian girls dedicated to Hindu goddess endure life of sexual exploitation
A women who was dedicated to a goddess in the south Indian state of Karnataka shares in a media interview that she was used as a sex slave thanks to a persistent practice, called Devadasi, which ...
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Church leaders condemn radical Jewish attack on Armenian restaurant in Jerusalem’s Christian quarter
Christian leaders in the Holy Land have condemned an assault on an Armenian restaurant in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem by a group of radical Israelis, warning that the radical aggression is ...
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Pakistani Christians fear heightened persecution as lawmakers pass bill expanding blasphemy laws
Pakistan s lower house of parliament has passed legislation to make the country s blasphemy laws stricter even as their blatant misuse again came to light in a threat to falsely charge a Christian ...
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Leprosy in paradise
It's World Leprosy Day on 29 January and in the beautiful tea gardens of Sylhet, Bangladesh, the condition is all too painful a reality.
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Israeli Government Announces Tough anti-Terror Measures after Jerusalem Attacks
Israel's Security Cabinet met Saturday night and announced a series of tough new measures against Palestinian terrorists and their supporters. The move follows the worst weekend of terrorist violence in Jerusalem in the past decade. 7 people were killed in the ultra-Orthodox suburb of Neve Yaakov Friday, and two more Israelis were shot near the City of David on Saturday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new anti-terror measures include sealing terrorists' homes so the families can no longer live in them and expelling family members who clearly support the acts of the terrorists.
