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Lithuania issues 'war crimes' warrants for three Russians
Seven border guards were killed at Myadninkai checkpoint in 1991.
Lithuania has issued European Arrest Warrants for three Russian citizens suspected of taking part in the killing of seven Lithuanian border guards and customs officers in 1991, shortly after they declared independence.
The warrants for ex members of the OMON paramilitary police Andrey Laktionov, Cheslav Mlynnik and Aleksandr Ryzhov were...
Missouri School forces girl to apologize to attacker
A seventh grade special-education student in Missouri is suing the school district for their actions involving repeated rapes she was subjected to on school grounds.
Not only did the educators in the Republic School District not believe the girl’s cries of rape a few years ago, but they responded by reprimanding her for it and forcing her to fork over a hand-written apology to the alleged assailant,...
Attackers burn 50 cars in Berlin
Two cars burnt by unidentified arson attackers in Berlin on August 18, 2011.
Arson attackers in the German capital of Berlin have severely damaged some 50 vehicles on three consecutive nights, arousing concerns that the incidents could be politically motivated.
Most of the 50 vehicles damaged since Monday are luxury cars, Financial Times reported.
“The arsonists want to hit what they say are ‘Fat...
EU allows crisis-hit Spain to restrict Romanian workers
Romanian Workers
Spain has been given the green light by the EU executive to tighten restrictions on Romanian workers as it struggles with the highest unemployment in the 27-nation block.
Spain will now require Romanians to have a work contract before settling in Spain and reverses a two and a half year moratorium that gave Romanian workers unrestricted access as fellow members of the European Union.
The...
Algeria: Suicide Bomb Attack Wounds Dozens
A suicide bomb attack on a police station in eastern Algeria early Sunday injured 29 people, according to reports.
The suicide bomber rammed the entrance of the police station causing major damage, French language daily El Watan said.
The paper said that two Chinese nationals had been injured, while Mohamed Nedir, director of the university hospital in Tizi Ouzou, around 100 kilometres (60 miles)...
‘Flash robs’ invade Canada
On a warm July night, 40 young people swarmed an Ottawa convenience store in one of Canada’s first “flash robs.”
Close to midnight on a hot summer’s night in July, the Quickie convenience store in Ottawa’s west end was virtually empty.
The next minute, 40 or so youth descended en masse. As they marched in they grabbed everything in sight.
The next minute, like a well-oiled many-tentacled...
Betrayal In The Far North - The Swedish Case
In light of Norway’s recent “9/11” it is apparent that terrorism has now seriously infected the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norway, however, was not the first country to get a taste of this. On December 11, 2010, suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly blew himself up on the busy shopping street Drottninggatan, in Stockholm, Sweden. So what exactly connects Anders Behring Breivik with this Islamic...
Bond denied after woman attacked while loading groceries into car
Whitney Deandra Wilson
A Lexington County woman will stay in jail after deputies say she attacked another woman while helping her load groceries into her car over the weekend.
Whitney Deandra Wilson, 21, is charged with robbery and assault in connection with the attack, which Sheriff James Metts said happened around 3:30pm on Saturday at the Food Lion on St. Andrews Road. A judge denied Wilson’s...
Syrian government steps up offensive despite international outcry
At least 38 people have been killed after Syrian tanks launched an offensive on another rebel town on Sunday. The attack came as the UN appealed for an immediate halt to violence in the country.
Syrian troops stormed several other cities on Sunday raising the overall death toll to 69, according to Reuters news agency. Meanwhile, Agence France-Presse reported about 52 victims. Over 100 are reported...
Wisconsin State Fair Attacked by Youths
Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY’S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene.
Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair.
Witnesses’ accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left...
16 NATO tankers go up in flames
Pakistani firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire caused by a bombing that destroyed 16 NATO supply trucks on the outskirts of Peshawar on August 6, 2011.
Sixteen NATO supply vehicles transporting fuel destined for US-led forces in Afghanistan have gone up in flames in a bomb attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A total of 28 tankers were parked at a terminal on the outskirts of the provincial...
31 US forces killed in Afghanistan
US soldiers in Afghanistan
At least thirty-one US special forces have been killed after a helicopter belonging to the NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crashed in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Wardak.
The deaths were announced in a statement by the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, AFP reported on Saturday.
The death toll is the biggest in a single incident...
Gillard authorizes force to put asylum seekers onto planes
A boat is intercepted by the Border Protection Command off Australia's north coast.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated that authorities on Christmas Island will be authorised to use force to make sure asylum seekers get on board aircraft taking them to Malaysia.
The first boatload of people to be processed under the asylum seeker swap deal with Malaysia arrived on Christmas Island this...
UK Police Tells Public To Report Anti-Government Beliefs As Terrorism
The London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest.
“This was the surprising injunction from the Metropolitan Police issued to businesses and members of the public...
Asylum Seekers Riot in Bari Italy
African immigrants have gone on the rampage in Bari, Italy, blocking roads and a railway line, setting things on fire and attacking police and passers-by with iron bars.
The Africans were being housed at an immigration center in the town, which has now been set on fire. They are demanding that they be recognized as refugees and given legal status. Although some of the rioters waved the Tunisian flag,...