Tsarnaev brothers highlight shifting movements within Chechnya, expert says
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Mirjana Pantic
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-22 12:53:25 -0700 | disasters-news
Searching for a motive behind the attack on the Boston Marathon in April that killed three people and injured more than 260 others, the media has speculated that the answer may lie in the alleged perpetrators’ Chechen origins. The Russian...
Suspected terrorist attack on streets of London — man hacked to death
Posted by: Robert Myles
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 13:28:04 -0700 | disasters-news
One man is reported to have died and two men have been injured after a possible terrorist attack on John Wilson Street in Woolwich, southeast London. Some reports have referred to the victim having been “beheaded.” The British Prime Minister...
Moore Oklahoma elementary school has no tornado shelter, Who's to blame?
Posted by: richwebnews
Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:17:53 -0700 | disasters-news
When deadly Oklahoma tornado chewed through Moore city in Cleveland County on Monday afternoon, dozens of young children in an elementary school left scampering around with nowhere to hide. Plaza Towers Elementary was directly in the path of the two-mile...
FBI agent fatally shoots man who knew Boston bombing suspect, friend says
Posted by: Phyllis L. Smith Asinyanbi
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:32:32 -0700 | disasters-news
Updated 5-22-2013, 1:09 p.m., PDT Ibragim Todashev, 26, an ethnic Chechen man who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombing suspects, was fatally shot Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., by an unidentified FBI agent. The agent had questioned Ibragim's friend,...
Jodi Arias asks for life term as jury deliberates her fate (Video)
Posted by: VeronicaS
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:08:10 -0700 | disasters-news
Almost immediately after her May 8 guilty verdict, convicted murderer Jodi Arias gave an interview where she claimed to prefer the death penalty to life in prison. But apparently Ms. Arias had a change of heart and no longer views...
Syria and Israel exchange fire over Golan Heights
Posted by: arkar
Tel Aviv :: Israel | updated 2013-05-22 12:13:28 -0700 | disasters-news
Syria and Israel today exchanged fire over the Golan Heights, with soldiers from either country firing at one another across the ceasefire line. According to the Israeli Defence Force, the incident took place after Syrian soldiers allegedly shot at an...
Massive sinkhole kills five in south China town of Shenzhen
Posted by: willsteven
Shenzhen :: China | updated 2013-05-22 03:03:21 -0700 | disasters-news
FIVE people have died after a 10-metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong. The Shenzhen Longgang locality government said on its verified page on Sina...
Wall of smoke halts Sydney CBD
Posted by: willsteven
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-22 02:41:48 -0700 | disasters-news
MORE than 1200 city office workers and lunch time diners were evacuated after a fire broke out in a restaurant kitchen. The blaze broke out in the consume system of Macchiato Pizza Bar and Grill on the corner of Pitt...
Notre Dame Cathedral suicide by French writer Dominique Venner a 'gay marriage protest'
Posted by: willsteven
Paris :: France | updated 2013-05-22 12:00:40 -0700 | disasters-news
A MAN has shot himself dead in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, apparently in protest against France allowing gay marriage. Policeman verified the man's persona as Dominique Venner, 78, an essayist and activist connected with France's...
18-year-old charged for lesbian relationship or for sex with a minor?
Posted by: VeronicaS
Sebastian :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:24:59 -0700 | disasters-news
The worldwide Web is alight with this Florida case and those who are outraged that the teen is being charged, believe the parents did so because they’re upset their daughter was “turned Gay” by the relationship. Cries of discrimination, bias...
FBI agent shoots dead, man linked to Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Posted by: Nina Rai
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:06:49 -0700 | disasters-news
An FBI agent shot dead a Chechen man in Orlando, Florida during interrogation over his alleged links to the deadly Boston Marathon bombing of April, says reports. The deceased identified as Ibragim Todashev, 27 may have been connected to Boston...
Judge approves marathon bombing suspect's request to see prison records
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 12:53:25 -0700 | disasters-news
Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has won a court order allowing him to review records kept on him during the past month, while he has been in federal custody. A federal magistrate judge in Boston agreed Monday that Tsarnaev's...
When media disaster coverage turns into ‘disaster porn'
Posted by: VeronicaS
Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:13:45 -0700 | disasters-news
It’s no news that comedian/host Bill Maher likes to push the envelope and that what comes out of his mouth makes some cringe and run for the smelling salts, so this is no exception. The host of the HBO show...
Nearly 40 percent of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid
Posted by: Robert Myles
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-22 08:58:22 -0700 | disasters-news
The number of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid has reached 8.3 million, or 38 percent of the country's population, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated, labeling the situation in Syria a “humanitarian catastrophe.”...
Oklahoma Tornado: First Missing Children Pictures Revealed
Posted by: faraway
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:17:53 -0700 | disasters-news
US officials confirmed that at least 24 people have killed, including nine children and 237 people were injured after a mile-wide tornado, classified as EF5, has ripped through southern Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, May 20, leaving two elementary schools...
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