Commuters injured in Tel Aviv bus stabbing |
Suspect shot and apprehended after stabbing 13 people in coastal Israeli city, police say.
Last updated: 21 Jan 2015 08:34
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An attack on a bus in Tel Aviv has left 13 people injured with stab wounds, Israeli police have said.
The assailant, who tried to escape the scene on Wednesday, was shot by police and lightly wounded in the leg before being apprehended, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
She said the attacker was "a member of a minority," using the usual police term for a Palestinian.
Israeli authorities said the man was a 23-year-old from Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, and had entered Israel without a work visa.
The attack occurred during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, after the assailant boarded the bus on Begin Road, a major thoroughfare in Tel Aviv.
He stabbed the bus driver before moving through the bus and stabbing other passengers.
Four of the injured had moderate to serious injuries, according to police.
UN dismisses North Korea’s claim that damning human rights report is invalid
Partial retraction of evidence given by defector and Pyongyang critic Shin Dong-hyuk is not significant, UN says
The head of the UN commission that produced a damning report on North Korean rights abuses has dismissed Pyongyang’s claim that doubts about the credibility of a prominent witness made the panel’s findings invalid.
“The partial retraction of Shin Dong-hyuk of the testimony he gave to the Commission of Inquiry on North Korea is not significant for the report, conclusions or recommendations of the commission,” said retired Australian judge Michael Kirby.
Shin, a well-known defector and Pyongyang critic, admitted this week that elements of his bestselling gulag survivor book Escape from Camp 14were inaccurate, though he stressed that the crucial details of his suffering and torture still stood.
Chechens arrested as alleged Paris accomplices charged
France remains on high alert in wake of Islamist attacks, writes Lara Marlowe
Lara Marlowe
Five Russians of Chechen origin were arrested in the Hérault department of southern France yesterday. Police said they discovered “extremely dangerous” explosives in their possession.
However, the prosecutor of Béziers, Yvon Calvet, warned against jumping to conclusions. The men, aged between 24 and 37, were already known to police for criminal activities, not for links to terrorism.
“There is no religious context,” Mr Calvet said.
The judiciary police were less categorical, saying it had “not yet been determined” if a terrorist plot was under way.
The anti-terrorist section of the police does not plan to take over the investigation “for the moment”, Mr Calvet added.
Neither a potential target nor the country where the explosives were intended to be used have been established.
Boko Haram claims Baga attack in new video
Boko Haram has claimed a deadly massacre on the Nigerian town of Baga, which it largely destroyed earlier this month. The message coincided with a meeting of regional leaders discussing how to stop the terrorist group.
"We killed the people of Baga. We indeed killed them, as our Lord instructed us in His Book," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released late on Tuesday.
Baga, a fishing village on the shores of Lake Chad, was besieged earlier this month by Boko Haram militants. Satellite images released by human rights watchdog Amnesty International purported to show the destruction of the town.
Eye witnesses to the violence have reported that bodies still line the streets. While the official death toll is not yet known, authorities have indicated that up to 2,000 people died in the massacre.
Shekau said in his latest video that the group was prepared to slaughter more people in its continued campaign against the Nigerian government.
100 Chinese detained in Myanmar; suspected of illegal logging
Edward Wong
Beijing: The Chinese government is investigating the detention of more than 100 Chinese citizens by Myanmar on suspicion that they entered the country to engage in logging, according to a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Myanmar.
A group of Chinese diplomats has arrived in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state in northern Myanmar, to discuss the situation with officials there and to offer consular services to the detained Chinese, the spokesman, Pan Xuesong, said in a written statement.
According to Chinese news reports on Monday, the Chinese were detained in early January after having entered Kachin, which is west of China's Yunnan province. Kachin state is a volatile area of Myanmar, also known as Burma, that has been split by a long-running civil war. Part of the state is controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation and its armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army. There has been intense fighting in recent years between the rebel army, made up of ethnic Kachin, and the military of Myanmar. Recently, there has been another surge in violence.
ISIS reportedly kills 13 boys for watching soccer: Is ISIS adopting Taliban tactics?
Reports of torture and public executions being employed by ISIS have been circulating, but these harsh sharia tactics aren't new to those who lived in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Unconfirmed reports say that ISIS had executed 13 young boys from Mosul, Iraq, over the weekend, by firing squad because they watched a soccer match on TV, according to Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, an activist group that claims to expose ISIS atrocities.
The website is filled with descriptions of the harsh life under Islamic State rule.
The report of boys killed for watching soccer comes on the heels of imagesthe Islamic State released last week that depicted ISIS security personnel throwing two individuals to their deaths from a tower because they were "convicted" of being homosexual, according to a report from the International Business Times.
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