Texas shooting: US Air Force 'failed' to flag gunman's criminal history
The US Air Force has said it is investigating its apparent failure to enter information about Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley's criminal history into the national database.
Ex-airman Kelley was court-martialled for domestic violence in 2012, and was barred from owning or buying guns.
But last year he was able to purchase a rifle he used in Sunday's attack on a small church outside San Antonio.
He killed 26 people and fled the scene. He was later found dead in his car.
Police said he died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound after being chased by armed bystanders.
'This is a revolution': Saudis absorb crown prince's rush to reform
Consolidation of power in Mohammed bin Salman’s hands has upended all aspects of society, including previously untouchable ultra-elite
Outside a Riyadh shopping centre last month, Zeina Farhan was walking with her headscarf around her shoulders when the religious police pulled up. She froze in fear as a man in the driver’s seat lowered his window. “Please madam, can you just cover your hair during prayer time,” he asked. “I said OK, he said thank you, and he drove off. That was it. It was stunning.”
For all of her adult life, a run-in with the feared enforcers of Saudi Arabia’s societal norms would have led to a much harsher outcome. A woman who dared uncover her hair in public at any time, let alone during prayer, probably would have faced a fine and maybe jail. “Insults, prisons, whippings, shame,” said Farhan, 32. “To see them like that showed how much things have changed.”
North Korea nuclear tests are 'leading to deformed babies and turning province into wasteland'
Defectors say 80 per cent of trees die and underground wells have run dry
North Korea's nuclear test site has been turned into a wasteland where babies are born with defects, defectors have reported.
Defectors from Kilju county, where the Punggye-ri underground nuclear test facility is located, have said 80 per cent of trees that are planted die and underground wells have run dry.
The witness accounts come from a group of 21 defectors who used to live in the region who were interviewed by the Research Association of Vision of North Korea, according to the South Korean Chosun Ilbo newspaper.
Woman in London uses crowdfunding to pay for private rape case
Prosecutors did not press charges after Emily Hunt "woke up naked and terrified" next to an unknown man in a London hotel. She has since been seeking another path to justice.
A 38-year-old woman from London is seeking £100,000 (€114,000/$132,000) on the crowdfunding website, GoFundMe, to start a private prosecution against a man who allegedly drugged and raped her in 2015.
Emily Hunt – who waived her right to anonymity – started the funding campaign "Rape Should Be Prosecuted" in October after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the English authority in charge of criminal prosecutions, said there was insufficient evidence to publicly prosecute the man.
'Naked and terrified'
According to the campaign's description, Hunt realized she had been drugged after she "woke up naked and terrified" in a hotel bedroom next to an unknown man in May 2015.
The forgotten massacre that ignited the Kashmir dispute
by Rifat Fareed
The family of Israr Ahmad Khan lived through the massacre of Jammu in what was then part of the princely state of Kashmir. He recalls that many of his relatives were killed during the violence that followed months after British rule over Indian sub-continent ended.
"My father was young then and other immediate family members were in Kashmir at that time. But many of my relatives were brutally killed," the 63-year-old told Al Jazeer
"To be honest that was a mad period. There was no humanity shown at that time," Khan, who retired as senior police officer, said at his home in Jammu.
Donald Trump’s Vow to Hit ISIS “10 Times Harder” Guarantees More Terrorism Against Americans
WHO SAYS DONALD Trump doesn’t keep his promises? On the campaign trail, the reality TV star pledged to “bomb the shit” out of the Islamic State. And that’s what he has been doing since coming to office: In August, for example, the United States-led coalition dropped more than 5,000 bombs on ISIS positions, “the most of any month in the three-year campaign to defeat ISIS,” according to the U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
Bombing the shit out of ISIS has become Trump’s signature move. “What we’re doing is every time we are attacked from this point forward … we are hitting them 10 times harder,” the president told reporters on Friday, in the wake of the latest ISIS-inspired terror attack in New York City, vowing that the U.S. would “hit [ISIS] like you folks won’t believe.”
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