Woolwich attack: Lee Rigby's family pays tribute to slain soldier (Video)
Posted by: Eileen Kersey
Manchester :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 17:50:54 -0700 | disasters-news
Family members of Lee Rigby, the drummer soldier hacked to death in Woolwich, London, on Wednesday, attended a press conference Friday. Their pain is raw and terrible to watch. You want to reach out and put your arms around them...
Washington bridge collapse closes main I-5 route from Mexico to Canada
Posted by: PrairieDogPress
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:40:32 -0700 | disasters-news
An oversized truck hit the Skagit River Bridge ceiling steel beams Thursday around 7:00 p.m., causing that section of the bridge to buckle and collapse, and sending several cars into the freezing water below, authorities said. Three people were subsequently...
Multiple explosions, heavy gunfire rock Kabul (Video)
Posted by: Nina Rai
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-24 13:54:17 -0700 | disasters-news
Multiple large blasts rocked a bustling area in the center of Kabul followed by gunfire Friday, police said. It is a second blast to hit the Afghan capital in little over a week. A witness describing the incident told Reuters...
Russia says: Syrian regime agrees to attend Geneva international conference
Posted by: saleh1966
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-24 16:14:13 -0700 | disasters-news
The Russian Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich confirmed that Russia has received an approval from Syria that it had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference on the Syria crisis that is expected to take place...
Zimmerman's murder trial draws near so let the smear campaign begin (Video)
Posted by: VeronicaS
Sanford :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:25:14 -0700 | disasters-news
Opinion As George Zimmerman’s murder trial scheduled for June 10 draws near, a concentrated smearing of the victim has begun. Defense lawyer Mark O’Mara is blanketing the Internet with images of Trayvon Martin in what I will call “full thug”...
Syrian government agrees to attend international peace conference
Posted by: arkar
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 18:49:25 -0700 | disasters-news
With the bloody civil war in Syria having claimed more than 80,000 lives and displaced millions, the present stalemate between the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition suggests that this now-two-year-long conflict may continue, but efforts are underway to broker...
Do gun and drug texts and emails show Trayvon Martin deserved to die? (Opinion)
Posted by: Eileen Kersey
Sanford :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:25:14 -0700 | disasters-news
In February 2012 George Zimmerman, a security operative, shot dead Trayvon Martin. Trayvon was 17-years-old and George 28. In Florida, where the killing took place, a law on shooting in events deemed self-defense meant that George Zimmerman did not initially...
Bridge collapse into Skagit river - USA
Posted by: hmtis
Washougal :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:42:28 -0700 | disasters-news
The collapse in happened on the bit of Interstate 5 over the Skagit River, around the range of 60 miles north of Seattle. Three people were sent to the healing facility after a bit of an Interstate 5 interstate scaffold...
Gun-battle underway in Kabul after huge blast
Posted by: usmansafi
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-24 07:50:16 -0700 | disasters-news
An unknown number of gunmen, taking up positions in a building, are exchanging fire with security officials in the centre of Kabul city after a powerful explosion on Friday, police said. The fire exchange is underway in the downtown district...
Two found shot dead in Lyari
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-24 16:34:38 -0700 | disasters-news
Two men were found shot dead in Lyari, police said on Friday. They said that the body of a young man was found near a mosque in Bihar Colony in the early hours of Friday. The Chakiwara SHO said that...
MI5 'approached Woolwich suspect'
Source: BBC
Greenwich :: CT :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 16:22:55 -0700 | disasters-news
MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them about six months before the killing, a childhood friend has said...The BBC could not obtain any confirmation from Whitehall sources. Mr Nusaybah was arrested at the...
King condemns federal government's silence about homeland security risks
Source: United Press International
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 16:31:16 -0700 | disasters-news
The head of the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence said Wednesday the government has repeatedly dropped the ball in sharing vital terrorist-risk information with everyone from Congress to state and local law-enforcement officials.
FBI identifies consulate attack suspects
Source: Al Jazeera English
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-24 17:02:16 -0700 | disasters-news
56 The FBI has identified five men it believes were involved in last year's deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. Washington has not officially asked the Libyan government to apprehend the men, but Al Jazeera has learned that...
Two children hurt in cracker attack on school
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-24 16:34:35 -0700 | disasters-news
Two children were injured when a firecracker was lobbed into a private school in Orangi Town on Friday, police said. Orangi Town SP Asad Ali said two men riding a motorcycle threw a firecracker at Firdaus School in Baloch Goth....
Report: Feds call marathon bomb suspect 'lone wolf'
Source: United Press International
Watertown :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:04:23 -0700 | disasters-news
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a lone wolf who appeared to be radicalized before he traveled to Russia last year, investigators said. Citing officials briefed on the investigation, ABC News reported Friday Tsarnaev -- who was killed three...
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